Join artist Shawn Hall in an exploration of acrylic painting and visual language in this workshop inspired by the exhibition Vicinal Visions. Participants will investigate the concept of vicinal, which suggests the development of a personal, localized visual language.

Some painting experience is helpful but not necessary. What is necessary is a conceptual interest in an idea to express, be that about nature, a personal experience or something about the world around you. With their personal interest in mind, participants will be asked to develop an idea through symbolic or gestural language while mixing colors from a basic palette. Participants will develop their idea through one or more paintings. By the end of the workshop, participants will have explored their own visual language through gesture and color.

All materials are provided. Must be 18 or older to attend.
The workshop includes a brief tour of the exhibition Vicinal Visions.

Questions? Email education@ogdenmuseum.org.

$50 members / $55 not-yet-members

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About Teaching Artist Shawn Hall
Shawn Hall is a New Orleans-based painter and interdisciplinary visual artist who views her practice as an act of participation in the biological world through intuition and action. She earned her MFA at the Mount Royal School of the Maryland Institute College of Art in 1992 where she was a Patricia Harris Fellow. Hall holds a BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1989) and an AS in Science from Delta College in MI (1985). Shawn Hall received a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant in 2017. She has been an artist-in-residence at School 33 in Baltimore, the LMCC in NYC, 18th Street Art Center in Santa Monica, CA, the Santa Fe Art Institute in New Mexico and Isadore Newman School in New Orleans. Hall’s work is shown widely in the USA, and she is included in numerous private collections as well as permanent collections of the Ogden Museum of Southern Art and Linklaters Corporate in NYC.

/// Event Image: Courtesy of Shawn Hall