Patricia Baldwin Seggebruch discovered encaustic paint over eight years ago and has never looked back. Her keen business sense and a natural love of people helped her create Encaustikits, a one-stop approach to encaustic tools and materials, and Encausticamp, an all-inclusive encaustic art camp held every summer. Her books, Encaustic Workshop and Encaustic Mixed Media are available on book shelves everywhere.
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Sat 8th 9:00-10:15 (P) Artist as Entrepreneur: Passion become Profession
How do you go from being a stay-at-home-mom selling Avon to becoming an accomplished artist, author, creator of two successful businesses and worldwide encaustic instructor? Patricia Baldwin Seggebruch will share with you her story of a journey led by a steadfast allegiance to her art passion. This presentation will not only inspire you, but it will challenge you to reach your own potential.
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Sat 8th, 1:15-4:00 (WS) Torched and Tried Encaustic
The torch is an important fusing tool, but in this hands-on workshop, Patricia Seggebruch teaches you how the torch can be used to distress the support even before any wax is applied. A variety of substrates will be used, including Encausticbord, plaster and birch to attain hues ranging from earth tones to black and textures that magically appear under the heat. Several wax applications will be explored. Material Fee: $15

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Experimental Foundations: Pushing the Boundaries - Sept 13-14th - $185
2 days Thur-Fri; 9-4pm $185 (Material fee $20 )
In this workshop participants work with mixed media materials of plaster, tar, wood icing, and the torch to create dimensional surfaces for mixed media and encaustic painting. A variety of processes and applications on the wax or mixed media surface will be explored, including Pan Pastel, alcohol ink glazes, oil, shellac and Pearlex. This workshop will give you a whole new toolkit of techniques and ideas for future work.

Judy Stabile, Wendy Aikin and Daniella Woolf teach encaustic techniques at Wax Works West. Together they provide instruction and studio space for artists who want to explore the many possibilities of the use of encaustics in their work. The inspiring facilities and diverse backgrounds of the instructors allow individuals to explore, express, and excel. Set in beautiful Corralitos, California, Wax Works West provides students with a foundation upon which artists can safely experiment, while pushing the boundaries of their artwork.
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Sat 8th, 10:45-11:45 (P) Building a School for the Encaustic Arts
Daniella Woolf, Wendy Aikin and Judy Stabile are artists with varied skills sets, career backgrounds and art disciplines. Five years ago they started a school for the encaustic arts. As a team, they will discuss the nuts and bolts of building a state-of-the-art studio, a thriving business and an outstanding school from the ground up. Drawing on their five years of experience and a life time of hilarious stories, they will share some ideas about why they are so successful.
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Laura Moriarty is a painter, sculptor and printmaker whose geologically-inspired works explore process and time. Moriarty has been honored with two Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grants, along with grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Crafts Alliance of New York State. She has participated in lectures and residencies nationally and internationally, and her work is included in numerous collections. Most recently, Moriarty was awarded a 2011 United States Artists Projects Grant to produce an artists’ book, entitled 'Table of Contents'. A Hudson Valley native, Laura lives in Rosendale, New York and runs the workshop and exhibition program at R&F Paints.
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Sat 8th, 9:00-11:45 (WS) Encaustic Basics
R&F Paints (taught by Laura Moriarty) is offering a three-hour basic encaustic class for all participants who are new to encaustic painting or have not had the advantage of studying at the R&F studio in New York or one of their national satellite schools. This hands-on workshop with R&F materials will cover all of the basics and provide you with a strong foundation for all future work in this medium. R&F Paints is generously sponsoring this workshop.

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Kathryn Bevier works at Enkaustikos Wax Art Supplies where she serves as both an encaustic educator and product manager. Kathryn has traveled extensively as the Enkaustikos Wax Art Supply representative to provide learning opportunities in a variety of arenas, most notably at Rochester Institute of Technology, Savannah College of Art and Design, NAMTA, the International Encaustic Conferences, The IEA Retreat, and College Art Association. Kathryn is the featured artist for all Enkaustikos educational videos and DVDs. Kathryn earned her BFA at Lyme Academy College of Fine Art where she was classically trained.
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Sat 8th, 2:45-4:00 (D) Encaustic Tools
In this session you will have the opportunity to see a variety of cold and hot tools that have been formulated for encaustic work. Kathryn Bevier will demonstrate her favorite tools to create fine line detail, continuous line and broad painterly strokes. A variety of fusing tools as well as painting tools will be included in this presentation.

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Daniella Woolf holds an M.A. in Design from UCLA. She is a 2007 recipient of the Gail Rich Award for excellence in the arts, and a 2008-09 Recipient of the Rydell Visual Arts Fellowship. Over her career she has worked in a variety of media, including jewelry and metalsmithing, fiber and textiles, collage and installation. Daniella teaches for and is a principal in Wax Works West, teaches workshops on the west coast for R&F Paints, and independently around the US, Australia and Europe. Her current work is about identity, privacy, and memory. She is an active member of the International Encaustic Artists, the Surface Design Association, and The International Association of Hand Papermakers and Paper Artists.
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Sat 8th, 9:00-10:15 (D) Hot Pallet Collage **ALMOST FULL!
In this demonstration Daniella Woolf will show you how to use the heated pallet, medium and your own found paper materials to create a collage directly on the heated pallet.
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Sat 8th, 1:15-4:00 (WS) Origami and Wax
Before encaustic painting, the Greeks were making their ships watertight by painting them with beeswax. We will make our own boats using your own papers, journal pages, drawings or prints into origami wonders and then use a variety of encaustic techniques to make them float! Material Fee: $15
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Encaustic for Fiber and Textile Artists - Sept 10-13th - $250
  3 Days Mon-Wed; 9-4pm $250 (Material fee $80)
In this experimental workshop, we will explore using encaustic as a method for working with fabric, fiber, paper, thread, ephemera and pliable elements.Fabric that you have dyed, printed, discharged, rusted, burned, composted and distressed are all fair game to manipulate, as well as crochet or knit forms. We will explore forming fabric, fiber and paper into 3D forms. We will also work the surface with transfers, metallic, texture and distressing.
You will receive an encaustic stylus tool with 5 tips with which you will learn to draw, paint, gouge and iron the surface in ways you haven’t dreamed of! A Presentation of Encaustic With a Textile Sensibility will also be given during the workshop.

Susan received a MFA from California College of Art and a BFA from Miami University with both degrees concentrating in textile arts and painting. Among her professional experience is faculty at U.C. Davis, staff at CCA, and 10 years at Jacquard Products, a manufacturer of textile pigments and dyes. Her love of pattern, texture and mark-making are evident as her work concentrates in the combination of surface design techniques and encaustic painting.
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Sat 8th, (D) 10:30-11:45 Surface Design, Fabric and Wax
Surface Design, Fabric and Wax. Fabric and wax have a long history together. Wax has been used in numerous cultures as a resist when dyeing fabric or as a strengthening/protecting element when added to fibers. This demonstration will introduce you to a variety of traditional and contemporary surface design techniques on fabric. The fabrics can then be collaged into encaustic. We will also use tools that can be adapted and used with the direct application of encaustic.
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Sat 8th, 2:45-4:00 (D) Paper Thin
If you have been frustrated with getting crystal clear layers of wax onto a support, let Sue Stover show how she paints micro layers of wax onto paper. In this delicate process she is able to layer imagery, keep the inherent translucency of the wax and come away with a finished painting that is only .002 thick.
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Surface Design, Fabric and Wax - Sept 10-11 - $185
2 days Mon-Tues; 9-4pm $185 (Material fee $20 )
Fabric and Wax have a long history together. Wax has been used as a resist in numerous cultures when applied to fabric before dyeing. This creates patterns and marks that are unique to the process.This workshop will focus on surface design techniques done on fabric. We will explore many contemporary techniques such as batik, discharge, stamping, sun printing and tie-dye to create uniquemark-making, surfaces and fabrics that can be embedded into wax. We will also experiment with traditional surface design tools and how they can be adapted and used directly with the encaustic processes. A great class for those who are new to the possibilities of surface design when incorporating fabric into encaustic.

Mary Maynor has been a papermaker for almost twenty years, during which she studied many areas of Western and Japanese papermaking. The paper led her into related arts of printmaking, letterpress and bookbinding. She utilizes her paper in miniature artist books that are often embellished with polymer and precious metal clays. For many years Maynor has applied wax to her papers for the strength that it adds, with more recent explorations of wax surface techniques. Her latest work has begun to take the language of the book even further into new sculptural forms.
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Sat 8th, 9:00-11:45 (WS) All Things are Bound to Unfold – Encaustic Books
In this hands-on workshop you will learn several bookbinding techniques as you create your own handmade books. Mary Maynor will demonstrate and provide examples of encaustic techniques that apply to book arts and ways to incorporate wax as an integral part of the process. Material Fee: $15
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Binding Encaustic Works: Accordion and Coptic Bound Miniature Books - Sept 10-11 - $185
2 days Mon-Tues; 9-4pm $185 (Material fee $15 )
Explore bookbinding with encaustic art inclusion. Learn basic accordion and Coptic bindings while creating two miniature books showcasing encaustic works on paper. These miniature books will measure less than 3 inches each but the structures can later be fashioned in any size. Using precut heavy book board and a variety of handmade and decorative papers you will create two small books housing encaustic paper works. Some class time will be allowed to explore encaustic imagery on paper with imagery and ideas available or artists may bring small drawings, photos, or writings to class. This class is suitable to both beginning and advanced artists.

Josie Rodriguez is a visual artist who uses wax in her work for its luminous, transparent qualities. Her newest body of encaustic work, comprising paintings, sculpture and artists books, will be on exhibition at the San Diego International Airport through March 2012. Luminous Layers explores the themes of connection, loss, growth, resilience and metamorphosis as they relate to the natural world.
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Sat 8th, 1:15-2:30 (P) The Birthing of an Idea: Creative Process from Concept to Completion
Based on her solo exhibition, Luminous Layers, at the San Diego International Airport, Josie Rodriguez describes her year-long process working with curators, design teams and airport personnel. She will take you from start to finish using photographs of artwork in process, design plans, installation and the finished exhibition so that you can benefit from her experience as you make your own ideas a reality.
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Larraine Seiden has an M.S. in Art and Design Education from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York and a B.A. with a Studio Art Concentration from California State University of the East Bay (Hayward). She has taught art at the K-12 level and to adults over the past fifteen years. Most recently, Larraine has had the pleasure of working with Betty Edwards, author of Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, and her son, master teacher Brian Bomeisler. Larraine is now one of very few certified to teach the method by Betty Edwards. Besides teaching, Larraine has an active studio practice in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is inspired by both the human body and cities, and her work projects emotional terrain onto the constructed world. She use the thick physicality of encaustic paint to explore an experience of inner and external place. Larraine regularly exhibits her work in the Bay Area and throughout the United States.
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Sat 8th, 9:00-11:45 (WS) Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
Drawing is a fundamental way to interact with the picture plane. If you have come to wax through a path other than traditional painting and drawing, this hands-on workshop, based on the research and work of Betty Edwards, will provide hands on experience in learning to see your world differently and ultimately to learn to break the myth of “I can’t draw.” Material Fee: $15
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Sat 8th 2:45-4:00 Larraine Seiden and Eileen Goldenberg ℗TWO Artist’s Quest to Keep Track of Her Studio Inventory: Sources for Getting Yourself Organized and Paid
If you’ve gone to IEA’s past marketing sessions you’re probably getting work shown and sold. How do you juggle keeping track of inventory as it comes in and out and of what sold to whom? This presentation is a nuts and bolts approach that will explore useful computer programs and other strategies for keeping track of your studio work.
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Kathrine studied fine art at San Antonio College, with a concentration in ceramics and painting. She studied stone carving under Rachman Ulmer. Her brother, artist Steven DaLuz, introduced her to encaustics leading her to create stone and cosmic inspired abstract paintings. Kathrine is represented by AnArte and Long Hall Galleries in San Antonio Texas.
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Sat 8th, 9:00-11:45 (WS) Joetta Jupe and Kathrine DaLuz Maple Handmade Paper Collage and Wax @ Southwest School of Arts
In the paper studio you will learn the art of working with a fresh sheet of paper and your own collage materials to create a thick sheet of paper that will be wrapped around a panel for encaustic layering. Joetta Jupe will guide you through the paper and collage portion of the workshop. Kathrine DaLuz Maple will provide examples of finished work that has been enhanced with a variety of encaustic techniques. You will be able to take home your own canvas for adding encaustic glazes in your own studio. Material Fee: $15
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Joetta Jupe received her BS degree from the University of Texas at San Antonio. She has worked with handmade and decorated paper in various forms for over 20 years. Joetta is adjunct faculty at the Southwest School of Art where she teaches papermaking.
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Sat 8th, 9:00-11:45 (WS) Joetta Jupe and Kathrine DaLuz Maple Handmade Paper Collage and Wax
In the paper studio you will learn the art of working with a fresh sheet of paper and your own collage materials to create a thick sheet of paper that will be wrapped around a panel for encaustic layering. Joetta Jupe will guide you through the paper and collage portion of the workshop. Kathrine DaLuz Maple will provide examples of finished work that has been enhanced with a variety of encaustic techniques. You will be able to take home your own canvas for adding encaustic glazes in your own studio. Material Fee: $15
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Johanna Gardner studied for a BFA at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, WA. She spent her childhood and adolescence on two continents-- Europe and Asia-- before moving to America. She began painting with wax in 2002 because the texture and color of the medium spoke best to her abstract landscapes. Johanna is currently the VP of IEA San Antonio Chapter, is the Communications chair of encaustiCon 2012 and is a faculty member of Inspire Fine Arts Center.
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Sat 8th, 1:15-2:30 The Iron as a Paintbrush
Johanna Gardner has been using an ordinary household iron as her primary painting and fusing tool for ten years. This demonstration will show you how to use an iron as an extension of your hand to mix and apply encaustic paint allowing for immediacy that a regular paint brush, torch and/or heat gun cannot achieve.
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Gina Adams is an MFA candidate at the University of Kansas and an award winning artist whose work takes a personal look at native history and world mythology. She has been on the faculty for R&F Paints since 2005 teaching at both the New York and satellite schools. Her new work involves layering wax on clay vessel forms replicating her Ojibwa heritage with its beadwork patterning.
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Sat 8th, 9:00-11:45(WS) Creating a Multi-Level Poured Surface FULL
The poured surface lures us with its smooth, natural warmth. Gina Adams will expand your experience of pouring by helping you achieve multi-level pours in your work, a new technique she has been using for two years. Participants will take home one finished small work. Material Fee: $15
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Sat 8th, 1:15-4:00 (WS) Encaustic Basics
R&F Paints is offering a three-hour basic encaustic class for all participants who are new to encaustic painting or have not had the advantage of studying at the R&F studio in New York or one of their national satellite schools. This hands-on workshop with R&F materials will cover all of the basics and provide you with a strong foundation for all future work in this medium. R&F Paints is generously sponsoring this workshop.
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Phyllis Evans is the Visual Art Department Chair for South Texas College in McAllen,Texas. She is a mixed-media artist working primarily with digital media and encaustic. Living close to the border region has influenced her work over the years. Her latest encaustic installations and drawings reflect on the cultural borders between the United States and Mexico.
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Sat 8th, 1:15-4:00 (WS) Digital Photography, Wax and the Found Object FULL
In this hands-on workshop, Phyllis Evans will take the photographic image into the realm of three-dimensions. Using found objects, such as rocks, books and ceramic tiles, you will learn techniques to transform your digital work into installations or sculpture. Techniques include: transfer, collage, pouring and embedding. A medium recipe, especially suited to photographic work, will be provided. Material Fee: $15
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Digital Art; Photography and Encaustic Painting- Sept 10th - $85
1 Day Mon; 9-4pm $85 (Material fee $15)
Digital photography allows us to capture our world, and then, using editing software we can reshape it to fit our idea and intent. Adding wax to these digitally altered prints brings the work back into the studio and the physical process of mark making and painting. In this workshop you learn processes for combining your own digital images into layered collages and then using those prints to create encaustic art. The processes that will be covered include: digital manipulation of imagery, layers and collage, encaustic transfer. Note: No wax processes will be used in the digital studio.

Michelle Belto is a multi-faceted artist and teacher. Her work as a performer, educator and visual artist spans more than thirty years, three continents and thirteen publications. She divides her time between her two passions: teaching encaustic painting and studio art with an emphasis on hand-made paper and wax. Her new book, Wax + Paper, Techniques for Combining Handmade Paper and Encaustic Paint is scheduled for release by North Light Press in the Fall 2012.
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Sat 8th, 1:15-4:00 (WS) Wax + Paper FULL
In this hands-on workshop you will have the opportunity to create and work on the perfect encaustic support---a surface that can be both textural and smooth, that is light and durable, can be shipped in winter or summer without fear of damage, can be created in any size or shape…and all for a fraction of the cost of wood panels. Learn to make your own cast paper canvases. Material Fee: $15
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Wax+Paper - Sept 10-13th - $250
3 days Mon-Wed; 9-4pm $250 (Material fee $40 )
Waxed Paper Workshop presents the student an overview of basic papermaking and encaustic techniques as they apply to handmade paper as a support. We will spend the first day of the workshop as a paper maker discovering ways that paper can be wrapped, glued, pulped, and pulp painted. The second morning continues in the papermaking studio with students working sculpturally with high shrinkage paper and found forms for casting pulp.
In the afternoon the wax will heat up as we apply various encaustic processes to these paper supports, including waxglazes, dry brush accretions,layering and scraping. On the third day students will explore a variety of mixed media applications to wax including transfer, collage, pouring, embedding, foil and gold leaf. Throughout the workshop students will see demonstrations in bothpaper and encaustic technique and have ample time for guided exploration on their own with the ability to create several completed works. No experience in either papermaking or encaustic painting is required although the experienced papermaker or encaustic artist will find something new and challenging in experimenting with this dual media.

Eileen Goldenberg is an award winning artist and curator who has been supporting herself with her art for over 35 years. She is one of the founders and past president of International Encaustic Artists. Eileen had four One Woman shows in 2011, and is represented by galleries nationwide, 

such as Hallway Gallery in Bellevue WA, Conrad Wilde Gallery in Tucson, AZ. She shows nationally at a multitude of juried art fairs.

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Sat 8th, 9:00-10:15 (P) Wax Included
In this digital presentation, Eileen P Goldenberg will introduce you to several artists who use wax as one medium in their work, but do not work exclusively in encaustic. In interviews with the artists, she will explore with them how encaustic plays a role in their message, what inspires them to create and which issues they deal with in their work.
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Sat 8th 2:45-4:00 Larraine Seiden and Eileen Goldenberg ℗TWO Artist’s Quest to Keep Track of Her Studio Inventory: Sources for Getting Yourself Organized and Paid
If you’ve gone to IEA’s past marketing sessions you’re probably getting work shown and sold. How do you juggle keeping track of inventory as it comes in and out and of what sold to whom? This presentation is a nuts and bolts approach that will explore useful computer programs and other strategies for keeping track of your studio work.
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The first batch of cups sold out in a few days, so Eileen is making more and bringing them to EncaustiCon in Sept. She hand throws them from porcelain, carves the original design and creates a very comfortable handle.They are dishwasher and microwave safe and have become a favorite to those who ordered early.To prepay so you can be sure there will be one or two for you, email eileen at epgoldenberg3344@gmail.com today!Enjoy your coffee or tea during the conference with this very special cup! Made by one of the founders and past president of IEA, and ceramic artist for over 40 years.

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Eileen will be at the Networking Expo from 2-4pm on Friday.

Willow Bader’s sensual paintings of the figure in motion began when she learned to dance the tango. She developed her own process of oil and wax because it best suits her purpose. An award winning painter, Willow Bader’s work appears in numerous publications and is collected internationally.

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Sat 8th, 1:15-2:30 (D) Painting the Figure in Encaustic @ Southwest School of Arts
In this session Willow Bader will demonstrate her signature style of painting using both encaustic and oil paint to create the human figure in motion. Her process involves layering on of color and scraping back to reveal previous layers. She has created her own hot pallet and studio set up to make this process workable.
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Painting the Figure in Encaustic - Sept 13-14th - $185
2 days Sept 13-14th, Thurs-Fri; 9-4pm $185 (Material fee $20 )
This class will cover basic encaustic painting for the encaustic and non-encaustic artist as it applies to capturing the figure in motion and at rest. The fluid quality of the wax and its ability to be applied in both translucent and opaque layers lends itself to the human figure. Willow Bader has modified the traditional encaustic pallet for her figurative work and has perfected the technique of scraping back layers to reveal movement. Topics include: Using a heated pallet, mixing colors with wax and oil, supports and grounds, combining drawing materials with encaustic paint and scraping and fusing with a torch. Painting and Drawing experience required.

Shary Bartlett teaches fine art at Capilano University and Langara College in Vancouver, Canada. Her own work explores the cross-fertilization between mixed media techniques and materials with a special interest in the unusual effects of altered and heat-distressed textiles and fibres.

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Sat 8th, 10:30-11:45 (D) Hot Fabrications: Combining New Age Fabrics, Fibres and Beeswax
In this demonstration you will be introduced to exciting possibilities when fibers meet wax. Shary Bartlett will demonstrate fabric alteration techniques such as coloring, gilding, image transfer and heat-treating fibres. When fused with beeswax, natural, spunbonded and heat-distressable fibres such as Tyvek, Typar, Lutradur, Evolon, Pellon and Angelina take on rich textures and effects that make these materials truly innovative.
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Total Fabrication! Fusing Fabric, Fibre and Beeswax - Sept 13-14th - $185
2 Days Thur-Fri; 9-4pm $185 (Material fee $40)
This workshop will introduce participants to the amazing textures and effects that can be achieved when combining beeswax, textiles and fibres. Experiment with silk, cotton polyester and new age spunbonded and heat-distressable fibres such as Tyvek, Typar, Lutradur, Evolon, Pellon and Angelina. Techniques such as rusting fabric, sewing, heat-treating fibres, painting with acrylic and oils, gilding, foiling and image transfer will be addressed. In this workshop participants will learn how to paint, fuse, heat, alter, print, layer, dye, rust, gild and transfer images to fibres to create art that is rich with texture, colour and innovation. This workshop will feature an inspiring slide presentation of contemporary international artists who use beeswax and innovative textile and fibre arts materials to craft innovative art, sculpture and installations.

Richard Frumess is the founder and owner of R&F Paints, a leading manufacturer of encaustic paint. His thirty years of work as a researcher, educator and manufacturer has been a driving force behind the encaustic movement of today.
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Sat 8th, 9:00-10:15 (P) A First Person History of R&F Paint
Handmade Paints began in a basement in Brooklyn, NY in 1988, but it was heir to a tradition that went back to the 1940s. Its founding was a matter of serendipity, based on a few lucky accidents, but it’s almost twenty-five year history is a result of hard work. This talk will cover not only the history of R&F but the development of the encaustic movement in the US to which R&F's history is inextricably bound.
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Kristy Darnell Battani is a lawyer specializing in intellectual property protection. Kristy has taught numerous classes for professionals and graduate students and served as a consultant to help creative professionals understand the business side of their careers. Her work can be found in private and corporate collections.
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Sat 8th, 1:15-2:30 (P) Legally Speaking
When we create, we make sure that our support is solid and properly primed. In this digital presentation, Kristy Darnell Battani, a copyright lawyer, teaches you how to improve your business acumen in the art world. She will cover issues of copyright for artists, key points in gallery agreements, negotiation tactics and a checklist for good business practices.
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Rodney Thompson, a self taught artist, has been working with encaustic for over a decade. Rodney has shown in galleries throughout the country and has contributed writing and artwork for four books on encaustic art. He has taught workshops and has provided presentations at several encaustic conferences on a variety of subjects. His business of making custom wood art panels is known throughout the encaustic community.
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Sat 8th, 9:00-11:45 (WS) Packaging and Shipping Your Work Safely
Creating a box for each of your encaustic paintings is a skill that can be learned. Rodney Thompson will provide a step by step process for creating a foam lined presentation and storage box for a 10”X10” encaustic work on cradled panel. In this hands-on workshop you will not only learn the process, but you will take home a new cradled panel made by Rodney and your own box to store it in. Other information regarding packaging for shipping will be discussed. Material Fee: $25 including one 10’x10’ cradled panel

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Sat 8th, 2:45-4:00 (P) National Park Artist in Residence Programs
Rodney Thompson was an artist in residence at Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona in 2011 and will be an artist in residence at Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona in 2012. In this digital presentation he introduces you to the opportunities that exist with a National Park Residency program that allows you to pursue your artistic discipline surrounded by inspiring landscapes. He will discuss the various parks that offer residencies, the application process, expectations from the host Park along with his personal experience and how these experiences influenced his artwork.
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Norman Soskel took his first photograph at the age of four while playing piano competitively almost as long. An award winning photographer, Norman has been fascinated with encaustic because it allows him to go back to the hand-on manipulation of imagery that digital processing no longer requires. His current work continues to be about the visual and auditory aspects of the natural world.

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Sat 8th, 10:30-11:45 (P) The Encaustic Serigraph, An Historical Perspective
Norman Soskel originally was drawn to serigraphy as a new way to portray his photographs in his work. With encaustic medium he found that he could combine both traditional screen printing and photography into something entirely new. His curiosity as to forerunners of this process led him to fascinating discoveries. In this digital presentation, you will meet those who experimented with this process and the woman who actually invented it.
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