Michelle Belto
We have been each asked to help you get to know us by saying a little something about our current work, our life and a few little known facts about ourselves. So...since I did the asking, it is only fair that I lead off with something about myself.
This has been a very busy year for me. Since last Spring, a little over a year ago....
- I have had four solo shows at four Texas locations with two different bodies of work with two different bodies of work...
(far North Texas-far East Texas, Central Texas and far South Texas...that is a lot of hauling and hanging!)
- I've written one book, Wax and Paper Workshop, Techniques for Combining Handmade Paper and Encaustic Paint now being printed by North Light Press and am starting on the second, Wax and Paper Workshop 3-D..
- I've continued teaching the Wax and Paper workshop and other encaustic workshops both locally and nationally....
- Chaired and helped create the IEA encaustiCon 2012.....
- Kept my day job.....
- ....And canned 94 quarts and 68 pints and 25 frozen packages (to date!) of peaches, pickles, relish (various kinds), tomato basil soup, vegetable soup, beans, okra, squash, peaches, tomatoes and pasta sauce! My husband is a big gardener and twice a year for a month or so I go back to my "country" roots and become a pioneer woman.
So, if you are staying for the post conference workshops and come to the Bar-B-Que, you will most likely be tasting some of our home grown pickles with your meal and possibly some onions, broccoli or other garden goodies that will be ripe for picking.
Reading over this post, I just made myself tired!
I'll rest up for your visit in September.
Posted on
Sat, June 30, 2012
by Michelle Belto
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