Conceptual EVENTS:

THE HUMAN medium

Dimensions of a huipil

This experience was conceptualized and created in 2025 for a company looking for a deeper, art-related, bonding experience.

Inspired by the layers of symbolism woven and embroidered into the square-shaped tunics worn by pre-Hispanic Meso Americans and original Californians, this event guided participants to create their own wearable totems of personal identity.

Guided meditation worked to open up their minds’ eye and associate colors with specific childhood memories, moments of perfect peace, and visions of self-actualization. Participants then layered these three colors on sweatshirts by monoprinting, airbrushing, and directly painting.

Turning off the self-editing muscles of the brain, the resulting art became mementos of who they are at their core— the center point between egos and insecurities.

a gentleman peels his sweatshirt up from a foundation layer of pigment on his personal sweatshirt

A DEMONSTRATION TO PRESERVE THE INDIVIDUAL

Premiered May 2, 2025 in San Francisco.

A choreographed painting experiment involving two participants at a time with the exact same:

Paints

Tools

Time to complete

Instructions

Blind to what the other creates, every layer of color becomes evidence for and an expression of the individual painter’s unique human identity.

Inspired by events of the Fluxus movement, the distinction between artist and audience was intentionally blurred for this 450 person event.

a dark-haired female painting with a large dust pan brush on a 4'x6' canvas in a lounge-type of environment
participant in Margaret Wingard's conceptual, Fluxus-based, art experiment dips a paintbrush into orange glossy paint
two people paint on 4' x 6' opposing canvases for a conceptual public art experiment
Many painted sweatshirts await their final layer of paint
Gloved hands finger painting on a large canvas with pumice Golden paints