Painter’s Family: Investigating Your Painting Lineage and Influences With Megan Hinton

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Tuesday November 12 – Friday November 15, 9:30am-1pm

4 sessions | $375 for members $395 for non-members

Who influences your paintings, past and present?

How do they relate to one another; cultivating recognition and critical thinking to influence your own artistic style? In this hybrid painting and art history workshop we will investigate your unique artist family tree. Examining painters of interest from long ago through today, we will map a heritage timeline of various styles to establish a kinship network that supports your work. This lineage of influence will provide a basis for new contemporary riffs in your painting repertoire, while also helping you to contextualize your painting practice within the arc of (art) history. We will begin by making a visual painter’s family tree, exampled and explained by the instructor on day one. The workshop will also include slide presentations, technical painting demonstrations, and individual and group work evaluation. Artists working in any type of painting or drawing medium and all levels of experience are welcome.

ABOUT THE TEACHING ARTIST

Megan Hinton (American, b. 1974) 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.  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 the recent recipient of the Alice C. Cole ‘42 Merit Grant from Wellesley College. Megan is also an art educator, curator, and writer.

Website: www.meganhinton.com 

Instagram: @megahinton