2025 Summer Workshop Program

Megan Hinton Painting Lab 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

Our FAWC studio will be a productive and experimental laboratory for investigating the procedural, conceptual, art historical, and contemporary aspects of painting. This intensive painting workshop will consist of instructor demonstrations in traditional modes of painting like underpainting, glazing, scumbling, impasto, and color mixing.  In addition, we’ll explore experimental painting methods like alternative surfaces, collage, and three-dimensional painting. Various painting exercises will prompt these technical approaches into action.  Each session we will look at classical to contemporary notable painters who convey a breadth of subject matter and process. Participants will leave the workshop with a newfound confidence and expansive relationship to their painting practice.  Students are welcome to use any type of oil or water based painting medium.

Biography

Megan Hinton is a painter known for reconfiguring genres of landscape, figurative, and object painting. Her art utilizes appropriation from painting’s history along with found and discarded material to investigate line, color, shape, surface, and scale. This fusion of subject and formalism spans further to her work in collage, sculpture, installation, photography, and performance. Hinton 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 the recent recipient of the Alice C. Cole ‘42 Merit Grant from Wellesley College. Hinton is also an art educator, curator, and writer.