Will Hinton

Will Hinton is a teacher, artist, learner, and advocate. He grew up in the farmland of northeastern North Carolina in Gates County. His artwork and life philosophy exhibit a profound connection to community and the sincere empathy and respect for nature that were modeled for him while growing up.

Hinton has been involved with a dozen large-scale public art works across North Carolina, ranging in concept from a brick and concrete Labyrinth to a historical mural of downtown Louisburg with current residents as subjects, to the largest tile mosaic depiction of the motto of the State of North Carolina in existence: ESSE QUAM VIDERI: to Be Rather Than to Seem. He also engages in intimate, small-scale projects such as still life drawings and functional pottery.

Hinton is in his thirty-eighth year of serving as professor of visual art at Louisburg College in North Carolina. He serves as a one-person art department, teaching drawing, ceramics, sculpture, art appreciation, and as curator of both the permanent and travelling exhibitions gallery since 1983.

Hinton has also been instrumental in relocating the Confederate monument from the middle of the Louisburg College campus to the historic Oakwood Cemetery.