Painting
October 14 to June 16, 2026
Tiered Tuition
$3,000-$6,000 Reserve My Spot
There are 10 openings for this 9 month workshop. And, there is NO application process. Just click the RESERVE MY SPOT button to register.
This workshop will meet bi-weekly from 6pm-8:30pm (Eastern), beginning on Tuesday, October 14th with the final meeting being June 16th.
This is a practice-based workshop, intended to help painters of all levels to develop, advance or renew a painting practice while building a significant body of work.
It will ask the question, “what is a painting life?” while encouraging the development of bodies of work that reflect our everyday experience, relationships, and gestures. Participants will be encouraged to think of this process through a number of lenses, including exploring painting as a process of memoir, creating a documentary archive of the months we work together, and/or considering the relationship between our bodies/gestures and our paintings.
Painters with pre-existing projects are encouraged to bring those projects to the workshop. There will not be specific assignments, but there will be optional prompts. We will alternate between discussing our works in progress and the works of artists whose practice aligns with the themes that emerge from our work and conversations. Participants will be asked to develop a learning/working plan for the duration of the workshop. The instructor will be available to meet with participants one-to-one in the development of the learning plan.
While this workshop is open to painters of all experience levels, the curriculum is based on my twenty-years of experience working with graduate students in Goddard College’s MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts program. Our work together will be individualized to each participants’ level of experience and learning aspirations. And it will be super fun!
Pete Hocking is a painter, teacher & writer on Cape Cod. His work is concerned with nature, place, poetics, and identity. He's a founding board member of Provincetown Commons, an economic development center for the creative economy. He taught part-time at RI School of Design from 1997- 2022. From 2003-2021 he was full-time faculty in Goddard College’s MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts program. He was director of RISD’s Office of Public Engagement (2007-11), and Associate Dean of the College & Director of the Swearer Center for Public Service at Brown University (1992-2005). On Cape Cod he is represented by AMZehnder Gallery in Wellfleet.
