Instructor: Pete Hocking 
Monday - Friday
July 21 - 25
9am - 12pm
5 sessions
Open studio: Mon - Thurs, 1pm - 4pm

Great paintings do more than document what an artist sees — they bring sensory experience, feeling, and memory to an image. They attempt to express an experience of being in the world, not just information. By looking at great paintings and making paintings in the studio together, we’ll work to create a small body of work over a week’s time. Students are encouraged to work with reference materials they bring to the workshop, to work in the landscape near the Castle Hill campus, or to work with still life or self-portraiture. In addition to group discussions, the instructor will work with each participant individually, attending to the particular interests and concerns they bring to the workshop. The goal of this workshop is to further articulate one’s skills as a painter and to gather passion and fuel for your practice in the weeks and months after the workshop. While it’s listed as a ‘master class,’ artists of all experience levels are welcome and will be supported to take the next step in their art practice. 

Pete Hocking is a painter, teacher, curator & 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. 

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