The 17th International Encaustic Conference
Image credit: Dale O. Roberts. Dale will be teaching a post-conference workshop Interpreting Ideas Through Studies To Develop A Process For Significant Paintings.
Image credit: R&F Artist Instructor Debra Claffey. Deb will be teaching a post-conference workshop Paper, Paint, Wax!
The 17th International Encaustic Conference hosted by Truro Center for the Arts will take place May 31 - June 2nd in Provincetown, Massachusetts. The conference is the place to be for anyone interested in encaustic. Instructors from across the country and around the world will be there offering talks and demos.
Pre and post conference hands on workshops round out your immersive experience. There’s a hotel fair, a postcard sale, giveaways, a juried show, and - best of all - R&F will be in the vendor room with a full array of paint and materials.
Image credit: Michele Randall. Michele will be teaching a post-conference workshop Cyanotype And Encaustic In Harmony.
Now through February 15th, Castle Hill is offering a discounted price on registration. For a limited time, you can save 20%. To learn more and take advantage of this sale, visit castlehill.org.
Image credit: Megan MacDonald. Megan will be teaching a post-conference workshop Explore + Experiment.
Never been to the conference? This might be the year to go.
Presenters this year feature an incredible line up including: Debra Claffey, Jeff Hirst, Leslie Giuliani, Kelly Williams, Patricia Miranda, Gabriella Sanchez, Bettina Egli Sennhauser, David A. Clark, Nancy Natale, Christine Aaron, Lisa Pressman, Richard Frumess, Laura Moriarty, Joanne Mattera, Jodi Reeb, Kelly Milukas, Milisa Galazzi, Wayne Montecalvo, Dorothy Cochran, and Michele Randall.
There will be a range of demos at the conference from encaustic printmaking and working with paper, to faux gilding techniques, just to name a few.
Several demos highlight color with a focus on creating harmony and working from a limited palette. Talks this year highlight materiality, thinking through space, creating meaningful content, print installation, preparing for exhibitions, archiving your work, and curatorial thinking.
Image credit: Isabelle Gaborit. Isabelle will be teaching a post-conference workshop Time & Surface: An Interface.
Artist Petah Coyne.
This year’s conference Keynote Speaker is Petah Coyne.
Petah Coyne is a contemporary sculptor and photographer best known for her large-scale hanging sculptures and floor installations. Working in innovative and disparate materials, her media has ranged from the organic to the ephemeral.
Mud, sticks, hay, black sand, specially-formulated and patented wax, satin ribbons, silk flowers, shaved cars, and shredded trailers are a few of the things she has incorporated into her sculptures. More recently, she has worked with glass, velvet, taxidermy, cast wax statuary, and trees.
Unafraid to confront a range of subjects or tackle contemporary themes, Coyne’s work addresses the tensions between transformation and constancy, life and loss, beauty and darkness.
Independent curator and critic Barbara O’Brien.
Each year a juried show is organized at Castle Hill as part of the International Encaustic Conference. Barbara O’Brien, an independent curator and critic based in Milwaukee, will serve as this year’s juror. She previously served as the Executive Director of Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and is an elected member of AICA-USA, International Association of Art Critics.
Her twenty years in Boston included positions as editor in chief of Art New England Magazine, Director of the Trustman Art Gallery at Simmons University, and Director of the Gallery and Visiting Artist Program at Montserrat College of Art.
O’Brien has a longstanding interest in and commitment to artists who incorporate encaustic into their practice, having twice presented the keynote address (2008 and 2013) at the conference. Most recently, O’Brien was the juror for the FUSEDChicago national exhibition “Connections,” which was shown at ARC Gallery.
Image credit: Leslie Giuliani. Leslie will be co-teaching a pre-conference workshop What Makes Encaustic Different In Creating Color Effects with R&F founder Richard Frumess.
Can’t attend the conference but are interested in one of the workshops? Don’t worry! It is not necessary that you attend the conference in order to register for a pre- or post-conference workshop.
Image credit: Wayne Montecalvo. Wayne will be teaching a post-conference workshop Unlikely Alternatives.
Pre-Conference workshops include:
5/28 - 5/30: Embodiment - Building Meaningful Content: A Psychological Self-Portrait with Kelly Williams
5/28 - 5/30: Fresco + Encaustic with Bettina Egli Sennhauser
5/28 - 5/30: Organic Abstraction with Values and Color taught by Kelly Milukas
5/29 - 5/30: Making Your Mark With Photo Collage And Color Theory with Jodi Reeb
Image credit: Gabriela Sánchez Apodaca. Gabriela is teaching a pre-conference workshop Zen Painting With Encaustic.
5/29 - 5/30: What Makes Encaustic Different In Creating Color Effects with Leslie Giuliani and Richard Frumess
5/29 - 5/30: Working Large with Jeff Hirst
5/29 - 5/30: Zen Painting With Encaustic with Gabriela Sánchez Apodaca
6/3 - 6/4: Suminagashi and Encaustic with Laura Morarity
6/3 - 6/4: Cyanotype And Encaustic In Harmony with Michele Randall
6/3 - 6/4: Unlikely Alternatives with Wayne Montecalvo
Image credit: David A. Clark. David will be teaching a post-conference workshop Encaustic Prints To The Next Level.
Post-Conference workshops include:
6/12 - 6/13: The Joy of a Limited Palette with Julie Snidle
6/12 - 6/13: Material World: Transforming Fabric & Wax! with Susan Lasch Krevitt
6/12 - 6/13: 100 Pieces In 3 Days? Loosen Up and Let Go with Lisa Pressman
6/12: Using Procreate for Editing Artworks with Anna Wagner-Ott
6/12 - 6/14: Encaustic, Assemblage, Multiples & Meaning with Stephanie Hargrave
Image credit: Jeff Hirst. Jeff will be teaching a pre-conference workshop Working Large With Encaustic.
6/12 - 6/14: Photographs, Transfer Film, and Encaustic with Patti Russotti
6/12 - 6/14: Encaustic Meets Fresco with Bettina Egli Sennhauser
6/13: Zen Painting with Gabriela Sanchez
6/13: Shine! Presenting Your Work and Yourself to the World with Joanne Mattera
6/14 - 6/15: Materiality and Encaustic: Re-Imagining the Substrate with Janise Yntema
6/14: Intentional Content with Kelly Williams
To view a complete list of workshops and to register for the conference, visit castlehill.org.
Image credit: Lisa Pressman. Lisa will be co-teaching a post-conference workshop Conversations In Color: How The Characteristics Of Pigments Affect Color Relationships with R&F founder Richard Frumess.