The 16th International Encaustic Conference
Artwork credit: R&F Core Instructor Julie Snidle. Julie will be teaching a post-conference workshop The Joy of a Limited Palette.
The 16th International Encaustic Conference hosted by Truro Center for the Arts will take place June 9 - 11th 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 show, giveaways, a book signing, 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 pre-conference workshop Cyanotype Printmaking & Encaustic Fusion.
Never been to the conference? This might be the year to go.
There will be 17 different talks at the conference including a range of topics from “Inventing Novel AIR Residencies” with R&F Artist Instructors Kelly Milukas and Bettina Egli Sennhauser, to “Artists Working With Textiles: Part 2” with Susan Lasch Krevitt, and “The Impact of Loss In Your Art” with Patti Russotti and R&F Core Instructor Lisa Pressman. Important professional development topics such as grant writing, marketing, packing and shipping encaustic will also be addressed.
Demos at the conference cover everything from the “Fundamentals of Getting Started” with Eliaichi Kimaro to “Intentional Content” with R&F Artist Instructor Kelly Williams and“Materiality and Encaustic: Re-Imaging the Substrate” with Janise Yntema. R&F Core Instructor Leslie Giuliani will be there to demo “Paper Lithography on Wax” and Stephanie Hargrave will present “Encaustic Assemblage, Multiples, and Meaning” with Stephanie Hargrave. Shary Bartlett will demo “Luscious Lines: Tools For Texture.”
Artwork credit: R&F Artist Instructor Kelly Williams. Kelly will be teaching a post-conference workshop Intentional Content.
This year’s conference Keynote Speaker is Hrag Vartanian.
The editor-in-chief and co-founder of Hyperallergic, Hrag Vartanian is an art critic, curator, artist, and lecturer on contemporary art with an expertise on the intersection of art and politics.
Hyperallergic reaches an audience of over a million people a month. Some of Hrag’s notable essays from the past few years include the forward to The Artist as Culture Producer, which is titled “Imagining the Future Before Us,” his keynote at the American Craft Council’s 2019 national conference, and his criticism of “Tribute in Light.”
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: R&F Core Instructor Lisa Pressman. Lisa will be teaching a post-conference workshop 100 Pieces In 3 Days? Loosen Up and Let Go.
Pre-Conference workshops include:
6/5 - 6/6: Layer by Layer: Monotype Collage and Encaustic with Debra Claffey
6/5 - 6/6: Cyanotype Printmaking & Encaustic Fusion with Michele Randall
6/6 - 6/8: Organic Abstraction with Values and Color taught by Kelly Milukas
6/6 - 6/8: Solving Color Problems with R&F founder Richard Frumess
6/6 - 6/8: Encaustic + Paper: Collage, Dip, Monoprint with Dietlind Vander Schaaf
6/7 - 6/8: Encaustic with Alternative Surfaces with Jodi Reeb
6/7 - 6/8: Solving Common Problems Faced By Painters Using Encaustic with Dale O. Roberts
6/7 - 6/8: Paper Lithography On Wax with Leslie Giuliani
6/7 - 6/8: What They Didn’t Teach You In Art School with Kim Bernard
6/7 - 6/8: Silkscreen Monoprint with Encaustic with Jeff Hirst
6/8: Getting Started with Encaustic Painting by Eliaichi Kimaro
Image credit: R&F Core Instructor Leslie Giuliani. Leslie will be teaching a pre-conference workshop Paper Lithography On Wax.
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
Artwork credit: R&F Artist Instructor Debra Claffey. Deb will be teaching a pre-conference workshop Layer by Layer: Monotype Collage and Encaustic.
6/12: Using Procreate for Editing Artworks with Anna Wagner-Ott
6/12 - 6/14: Encaustic, Assemblage, Multiples & Meaning with Stephanie Hargrave
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
Artwork credit: R&F Core Instructor Jeff Hirst. Jeff will be teaching a pre-conference workshop Silkscreen Monoprint with Encaustic.
To view a complete list of pre and post conference workshops and to register for the conference, visit castlehill.org.