The Painterly Print: Monoprinting Workshop with Megan Hinton

Monotype printing is ideal for the painter who would like to produce a body of work on paper. Monoprinting also opens up the contemporary possibility of stepping away from formal easel painting. This workshop will demonstrate the basic techniques to make a successful monotype print. Some of these techniques include the process of painting on a surface suitable for monoprinting, operating a printing press, and preparing paper for printing. Examples of artists' work that employs monoprinting will be introduced. Students should come to class with an experimental outlook. All levels of painting experience are welcome from the beginner to advanced painter.

Megan Hinton's paintings and works on paper have been exhibited throughout North America. She shows her work at the South Wharf Gallery in Nantucket, MA and The William Scott Gallery in Provincetown, MA. Hinton holds degrees from Ohio Wesleyan University, The School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, and New York University. She has been awarded the Dorothy Getz fellowship from Ohio Wesleyan, the C-Scape Dune Shack artist's residency from the Provincetown Compact and two print studio fellowships from the Women's Studio Workshop in the Catskills of New York. In 2011, Hinton had her first solo museum show at the Cape Cod Museum of Art and a three-person exhibition at PAAM. She is an avid traveler and admirer of the ocean, both of which inform her work. www.meganhinton.com

Hinton writes, "I teach to not only share my knowledge of art, but to act as a catalyst and guide for students of painting and drawing. My students, who come from diverse backgrounds and levels, teach me about the many possibilities and approaches to art making. Having an artistic discourse in regard to technical demonstrations, the language of art, and the significance of work by other artists not only makes my own approach to art making more clear, but gives me a better understanding of how students can expand upon and grow as individuals from their work."