About the Workshop

The contemporary notion of painting in the expanded field broadens our expectations of how and why a painting is made. In the Expansive Painting workshop, we will use painting as an act of transition, collaboration, and intervention. In this generative workshop you will be encouraged to develop or further a painting practice that explores alternative materials, processes, and concepts to generate a broader understanding of a painting practice. We will investigate the questions of: what embodies painting? How can painting’s medium and surfaces be thoughtfully expanded through an interdisciplinary approach with collage, photography, sculpture, installation, performance and digital media?

Over the course of the week participants will be introduced to notable contemporary artists, technical demonstrations, exercise prompts, and individual and group critique. The workshop is open to all levels of experience from the beginning to seasoned artist.

Refer to the Materials List for the materials students should bring to the workshop.

About the Instructor

Megan Hinton is a painter known for reconfiguring genres of landscape, figurative, and object painting. Her art utilizes painting’s historic content and technique with found and discarded material to investigate line, color, shape, surface, and scale. This fusion of content and material further defines Hinton as a collagist and sculptor with interdisciplinary practices in installation, photography, and printmaking. In 2024 Provincetown Art Association and Museum honored Hinton with the prestigious annual Award for Artistic Excellence. Megan holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary arts from Mills College where she won the Hung Lui Painting Prize. She has received residency fellowships from Twenty Summers in Provincetown and The Frans Masereel Centrum in Belgium. She is a recipient of the Alice C. Cole ‘42 Merit Grant from Wellesley College. Megan is also an art educator, curator, and writer.