Saturday, March 21; 11am to 2pm

Instructor: Megan Broughton

Join us to discover Indigenous Australian artist Dorothy Napangardi, who created beautiful paintings and prints inspired by her ancestral homeland, the Tanami Desert. Her paintings show abstract aerial views of her home landscape and use patterns as a language to speak about her home country.

How can we show our own neighborhoods as a pattern that is like a language? How can we simplify a place and still convey what it is about and what’s special about it to us? After learning about, looking at, and discussing Dorothy Napangardi’s work, you will learn her method of working and will make drawings of your own home. You will look at Marin from a bird’s eye point of view to find patterns, select sites that are important to you such as parks, rivers, and walking trails, and use them to create your own unique patterns and an artwork that expresses your home.

Megan Broughton is a multidisciplinary artist based in San Francisco, CA, addressing the climate crisis, loss, transformation, and the sublime. She uses ice, fog, and air currents to underline our daily environments at risk. Her work stems from onsite study in the Arctic, whose materiality and geologic deep time shapes and influences her practice. Exhibition highlights include Berkeley Art Center, Richmond Art Center, and Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts. Notable residencies include MaréMotrice in Greenland and The Arctic Circle Residency in Svalbard. Megan holds a BFA from the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). She was a 2023 California Arts Council Emerging Individual Artist Fellow and is a 2025 Gallery Route One Fellow.

Website: www.meganbroughton.com

Fee: MarinMOCA Members: $130; Non-members $150

Materials Fee: An additional materials fee of $15 will be paid to the instructor

Where: Marin Museum of Contemporary Art; 1210 Fifth Avenue, San Rafael (at B Street)

Register: www.marinmoca.org/learn