2025 Summer Workshop Program

Peter Hocking Painting Between Place & Memory June 15 to June 20, 2025 Time 9 am - 12 pm Discipline: Painting Open To All On-site Housing NOT Available - Off-site Housing Options

Great landscape paintings inspire memory and feeling. They reveal something of the painter’s experience, but also provide opportunities for a viewer to bring memory and emotion into the picture. Direct, spontaneous picture-making (painting, drawing, photography) allows a painter to capture something ephemeral and unexpected, and slower work in the studio provides space for considered composition. Working within landscapes of your experience and memory (including interiors and still life), we’ll build a series of small, fast paintings and perhaps several larger works in the FAWC studio. Workshop participants are encouraged to do fieldwork in Provincetown — shooting photographs and making drawings — as well as to bring references from their life. In addition to making work together, we’ll look at painting together – both from the class and from the history of art – and discuss strategies for building evocative, exciting images. Some experience with painting is useful, but not required for this workshop.

Biography

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.