About

Creativity, Curiosity, & Connection

Outside the Lines brings teams together through painting, music, and sensory exploration to strengthen collaboration, loosen perfectionism, and awaken creativity. Participants walk away feeling lighter, more connected, and ready to see challenges with fresh eyes.

Our Principles

  • Creativity Over Perfection

    We champion curiosity over control — inviting people to experiment, improvise, and rediscover the joy of play. Mistakes aren’t failures here; they’re where the magic begins.

  • Making Made Accessible

    We create spaces where everyone — no matter their role or background — feels safe to participate, take risks, and express ideas freely, both visually and emotionally.

  • Artists at the Helm

    Our facilitators are practicing artists and creative leaders who model openness, adaptability, and lifelong learning. They lead by example — not by instruction.

  • Process Creates Breakthroughs

    We emphasize the how over the what — helping teams experience firsthand how exploration, reflection, and iteration spark genuine innovation and connection.

Meet Matt

Matt Hanover helps teams, leaders, and audiences reconnect to their innate creativity through hands-on, art-based experiences that make imagination visceral — not theoretical.

Matt spent the first part of his career helping big companies innovate — leading projects at Amazon, Yahoo, DIRECTV, and Turner. But amid all the productivity and precision, something essential was missing: the spark of play, connection, and wonder that first drew him to art as a kid.

That spark reignited when he helped reimagine a children’s museum — a place built around curiosity, experimentation, and the joy of learning through making. Around the same time, his experiences at Burning Man opened his eyes to a different kind of creativity — one fueled by radical self-expression and human connection.

With a graduate degree in Consciousness, Health, and Spiritual Psychology, Matt began to see that creativity isn’t just about art — it’s about presence, flow, and freedom from judgment.

The Matt Hanover Art Experience is where all those threads come together — psychology and play, structure and spontaneity, intellect and intuition. Each workshop invites people to loosen control, rediscover their instincts, and remember what it feels like to create freely — outside the lines.