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Artists Association of Nantucket
ART CLASSES EVENTS

Course Description

The workshop studio will be our laboratory for the process and conceptual aspects of painting during this three-day intensive workshop. Demonstrations will be delivered in traditional modes of painting like underpainting, glazing, scumbling, all prima, impasto work, and experimental. These applications will create a painter’s toolbelt to execute a series of daily prompt-based exercise. The prompts will further an understanding of the materiality and meaning of painting. Notable contemporary artists who demonstrate a breadth of technique, surface, and subject will be discussed. Participants will leave the workshop with a newfound confidence and expansive relationship to their painting practice. Any type of oil or water-based painting medium is suitable, and the workshop is open to all levels from the advanced to beginning painter.

For questions or assistance please contact Elizabeth Buccino, Director of Education

Cancellation Policy

AAN depends upon student tuition to continue to offer classes and workshops. Due to our commitment to small class sizes and the hands-on nature of art education, we are greatly impacted by cancellations. Nevertheless, we do understand that plans change. If you need to cancel your reservation for a class or workshop, please note our cancellation/refund policy here and let us know as soon as possible.

Materials

PLEASE NOTE: The AAN’s Painting studio is equipped with easels and glass top carts for palette use and daily personal storage. Due to this studio’s evening classes in a variety of media, please be prepared to leave your cart and easel clean, store work in progress in drying racks provided, and transport your supplies to and from the studio each day. Storing unused paint in a plastic palette bin is suggested. Thank you in advanced for your consideration.

Material List:
-oil, acrylic, or other painting mediums: black, white, primaries, and secondaries
-a palette (disposal pad, wood, or glass)
-Brushes and palette knives (all sizes and shapes)
-plastic cups for water for water based paint or glass jars with lids for oil based paint
-Scissors
-Mat knife
-Paper towels or cotton rags
-2 pads of canvas paper around 11 x 14” in size
-source material like photographs, images, or existing art work for concept/subject
development
-Due to the nature of this experimental workshop materials of choice will mostly be generated by each student. The instructor will send an email well in advance of the workshop start date to prompt how to prepare in terms of material.

Painting Lab, 18+

Megan Hinton

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.
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