Edited by Hylla Evans
Our editors and feature writers are working artists with a shared commitment to raising the bar in encaustic.
Portland, Maine
Dawna works in the abstract geometric tradition. She has studied at College of the Atlantic, University of Maine at Orono, and Maine College of Art. Her work has been included in many regional shows including R&F’s Print Biennial Encaustic Works 2012, and in such venues as the Saco Museum, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Hunterdon Art Museum, and Endicott College. Dawna was included in Nine for Our Ninth, which celebrated Artscope Magazine’s ninth anniversary and Portland artists.
Dawna works in the abstract geometric tradition. She has studied at College of the Atlantic, University of Maine at Orono, and Maine College of Art. Her work has been included in many regional shows including R&F’s Print Biennial Encaustic Works 2012, and in such venues as the Saco Museum, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Hunterdon Art Museum, and Endicott College. Dawna was included in Nine for Our Ninth, which celebrated Artscope Magazine’s ninth anniversary and Portland artists.
Debra Claffey
New Boston, New Hampshire
Debra uses encaustic, oil, and mixed media in her work. Raised in Connecticut and educated in Massachusetts, Debra holds a BFA in Painting from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and Tufts University and an Associate Degree in Horticultural Technology from the University of New Hampshire. Debra has been exhibiting widely for more than 30 years and her work has won several awards. She received a 2011 Artist Entrepreneurial Grant from the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. Debra writes a blog, Making Something Out of Nothing, and enjoys curating exhibitions. She is a past president of New England Wax and is currently on the Board of the N.H. Chapter of the Women’s Caucus for Art.
New Boston, New Hampshire
Debra uses encaustic, oil, and mixed media in her work. Raised in Connecticut and educated in Massachusetts, Debra holds a BFA in Painting from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and Tufts University and an Associate Degree in Horticultural Technology from the University of New Hampshire. Debra has been exhibiting widely for more than 30 years and her work has won several awards. She received a 2011 Artist Entrepreneurial Grant from the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. Debra writes a blog, Making Something Out of Nothing, and enjoys curating exhibitions. She is a past president of New England Wax and is currently on the Board of the N.H. Chapter of the Women’s Caucus for Art.
Hylla Evans
Atlanta
Hylla is owner and paint maker for Evans Encaustics. She has been a panelist and presenter at the International Encaustic Conferences and has taught classes there in both color theory and copyright law for visual artists. She was Copy Editor of ProWax Journal issues one through seven. After a career in broadcasting and music production, Hylla taught painting in New York City, Amsterdam, Connecticut, and California. She was Education Director for Sonoma Valley Museum of Art and a juror and board member of Sonoma Plein Air. In 2016, Hylla began making Evans Cold Wax Paints, an entirely new medium for painting and printmaking.
Atlanta
Hylla is owner and paint maker for Evans Encaustics. She has been a panelist and presenter at the International Encaustic Conferences and has taught classes there in both color theory and copyright law for visual artists. She was Copy Editor of ProWax Journal issues one through seven. After a career in broadcasting and music production, Hylla taught painting in New York City, Amsterdam, Connecticut, and California. She was Education Director for Sonoma Valley Museum of Art and a juror and board member of Sonoma Plein Air. In 2016, Hylla began making Evans Cold Wax Paints, an entirely new medium for painting and printmaking.
Paula Fava
Novato, California
Paula has exhibited extensively throughout California since 2001, with solo shows concentrated in the Bay Area. She holds a BA in Broadcast Communications from San Francisco State University. Color and texture inform Paula’s work as she mirrors her infatuation with the natural and supernatural worlds. Though she is an accomplished photographer, Paula’s current focus is on painting full time. Her artwork is in private collections across the U.S.
Milisa Galazzi
Novato, California
Paula has exhibited extensively throughout California since 2001, with solo shows concentrated in the Bay Area. She holds a BA in Broadcast Communications from San Francisco State University. Color and texture inform Paula’s work as she mirrors her infatuation with the natural and supernatural worlds. Though she is an accomplished photographer, Paula’s current focus is on painting full time. Her artwork is in private collections across the U.S.
Milisa Galazzi
Providence, Rhode Island
Milisa holds an MA with Honors from the Rhode Island School of Design. There she extensively researched the educational effectiveness of community-based art education settings, and her findings are published by Harvard University Graduate School of Education, Project Zero Press, 1999. In addition, Milisa holds a BA from Brown University where she studied Studio Art with minors in Women’s Studies and Cultural Anthropology, all of which directly inform the content of her art making. Milisa’s artwork highlights the interrelated forces of human connections, particularly when these ties are punctuated by physical distance or separation by time. She is best known for her three dimensional 'shadow drawings' and her printed works on paper, as well as her richly layered conceptual paintings. She is one of 45 artists included in the book, Cape Cod Contemporary Artists on Abstraction, published in 2015. Her work is internationally held in public and private collections, and she exhibits regularly in galleries and museums across the country. Milisa works full time in her Providence studio and on Cape Cod in the summer.
Milisa holds an MA with Honors from the Rhode Island School of Design. There she extensively researched the educational effectiveness of community-based art education settings, and her findings are published by Harvard University Graduate School of Education, Project Zero Press, 1999. In addition, Milisa holds a BA from Brown University where she studied Studio Art with minors in Women’s Studies and Cultural Anthropology, all of which directly inform the content of her art making. Milisa’s artwork highlights the interrelated forces of human connections, particularly when these ties are punctuated by physical distance or separation by time. She is best known for her three dimensional 'shadow drawings' and her printed works on paper, as well as her richly layered conceptual paintings. She is one of 45 artists included in the book, Cape Cod Contemporary Artists on Abstraction, published in 2015. Her work is internationally held in public and private collections, and she exhibits regularly in galleries and museums across the country. Milisa works full time in her Providence studio and on Cape Cod in the summer.
Jane Guthridge
Denver
Jane is known for her work in a variety of translucent materials exploring the transformative effects of light and nature. Her work is represented by galleries around the U.S. and is contained in numerous corporate collections here and abroad, including the U.S. Department of State. Her work was included in Swept Away: Translucence, Transparence, Transcendence in Contemporary Encaustic at the Cape Cod Museum of Art in 2013, which traveled to the Hunterdon Art Museum in 2014. In 2016 she received the Juror’s Award for her work in Pattern at the Attleboro Arts Museum and she participated in the exhibition, Colorado Women in Abstraction, curated by arts writer Michael Paglia, as a companion exhibition to the Denver Art Museum’s Women of Abstract Expressionism.
Denver
Jane is known for her work in a variety of translucent materials exploring the transformative effects of light and nature. Her work is represented by galleries around the U.S. and is contained in numerous corporate collections here and abroad, including the U.S. Department of State. Her work was included in Swept Away: Translucence, Transparence, Transcendence in Contemporary Encaustic at the Cape Cod Museum of Art in 2013, which traveled to the Hunterdon Art Museum in 2014. In 2016 she received the Juror’s Award for her work in Pattern at the Attleboro Arts Museum and she participated in the exhibition, Colorado Women in Abstraction, curated by arts writer Michael Paglia, as a companion exhibition to the Denver Art Museum’s Women of Abstract Expressionism.
New York City
Joanne is responsible for two important firsts in the encaustic community: she is the author of The Art of Encaustic Painting (Watson Guptill, 2001), the first contemporary book on the topic; and founder of the The International Encaustic Conference, the longest-running professional event of its kind, from which she retired after Conference 10. Beyond wax, Joanne is the author of the Joanne Mattera Art Blog, which reports on art and artists working in all mediums. She is gallery represented throughout the United States and shows internationally, recently in Milan, Bonn, Berlin, and Paris with the exhibition, 10 Ways. She is a member of American Abstract Artists.
Joanne is responsible for two important firsts in the encaustic community: she is the author of The Art of Encaustic Painting (Watson Guptill, 2001), the first contemporary book on the topic; and founder of the The International Encaustic Conference, the longest-running professional event of its kind, from which she retired after Conference 10. Beyond wax, Joanne is the author of the Joanne Mattera Art Blog, which reports on art and artists working in all mediums. She is gallery represented throughout the United States and shows internationally, recently in Milan, Bonn, Berlin, and Paris with the exhibition, 10 Ways. She is a member of American Abstract Artists.
Cheryl D. McClure
Overton, Texas
Cheryl is an artist who lives and works in northeastern Texas. She works with several mediums, including encaustic. Cheryl is best known for her abstract landscape-inspired paintings. For more than 30 years she has shown her work in commercial galleries and art centers across the U.S. Her work is in private collections throughout the U.S. as well as Europe and Japan. She teaches occasionally in her studio and other regional locations.
Overton, Texas
Cheryl is an artist who lives and works in northeastern Texas. She works with several mediums, including encaustic. Cheryl is best known for her abstract landscape-inspired paintings. For more than 30 years she has shown her work in commercial galleries and art centers across the U.S. Her work is in private collections throughout the U.S. as well as Europe and Japan. She teaches occasionally in her studio and other regional locations.
Nancy Natale
Easthampton, Massachusetts
Originally from Boston, Nancy holds a BA in English Literature from the University of Massachusetts. She intended to be a writer, then zigzagged to administration of an import/export business for 15 years and left to earn a BFA in painting from the Massachusetts College of Art, Boston. She uses her diverse skills in writing three blogs, organizing artists, shows, and programs, and developing her career as an artist known for her constructed paintings made with mixed media and encaustic. Nancy's interests in history, biography, and culture have enriched her work and led to her fascination with found materials and objects that she transforms with the technique of bricolage. Nancy has received grants including a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant in 1995 and an Artists’ Resource Trust grant in 2012. Her work is regularly exhibited nationally and is represented by Arden Gallery in Boston.
Easthampton, Massachusetts
Originally from Boston, Nancy holds a BA in English Literature from the University of Massachusetts. She intended to be a writer, then zigzagged to administration of an import/export business for 15 years and left to earn a BFA in painting from the Massachusetts College of Art, Boston. She uses her diverse skills in writing three blogs, organizing artists, shows, and programs, and developing her career as an artist known for her constructed paintings made with mixed media and encaustic. Nancy's interests in history, biography, and culture have enriched her work and led to her fascination with found materials and objects that she transforms with the technique of bricolage. Nancy has received grants including a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant in 1995 and an Artists’ Resource Trust grant in 2012. Her work is regularly exhibited nationally and is represented by Arden Gallery in Boston.
Martinez, California
Maritza is a San Francisco Bay Area artist. She received her BFA in New Genres from the San Francisco Art Institute and uses her artwork to examine social perceptions. In 2013 Maritza was a featured artist for R&F Handmade Paints. She also launched ProWax Journal, serving as Editor-in-Chief until June 2016. Maritza has shown her work in San Francisco, New York, Miami, Santa Fe, and Provincetown.
Maritza is a San Francisco Bay Area artist. She received her BFA in New Genres from the San Francisco Art Institute and uses her artwork to examine social perceptions. In 2013 Maritza was a featured artist for R&F Handmade Paints. She also launched ProWax Journal, serving as Editor-in-Chief until June 2016. Maritza has shown her work in San Francisco, New York, Miami, Santa Fe, and Provincetown.
Deborah Winiarski
New York City
Deborah teaches mixed media classes and the encaustic workshops at The Art Students League of New York in New York City. Her work has been exhibited at Denise Bibro Fine Art and Kouros Gallery in New York City and at various venues across the United States. In 2015 Deborah curated the exhibition Casting Shadows–Work in Dimension and Relief at Julie Heller East Gallery in Provincetown, Massachusetts, as part of the International Encaustic Conference Curatorial Program. Deborah moderates ProWax Forum, an online discussion group (membership by request on Facebook), where questions regarding encaustic materials, technique, and vision are answered. Her work is represented by Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York City; Broadhurst Gallery, Pinehurst, North Carolina; and Elizabeth Clement Fine Art, Boston and New York City.
New York City
Deborah teaches mixed media classes and the encaustic workshops at The Art Students League of New York in New York City. Her work has been exhibited at Denise Bibro Fine Art and Kouros Gallery in New York City and at various venues across the United States. In 2015 Deborah curated the exhibition Casting Shadows–Work in Dimension and Relief at Julie Heller East Gallery in Provincetown, Massachusetts, as part of the International Encaustic Conference Curatorial Program. Deborah moderates ProWax Forum, an online discussion group (membership by request on Facebook), where questions regarding encaustic materials, technique, and vision are answered. Her work is represented by Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York City; Broadhurst Gallery, Pinehurst, North Carolina; and Elizabeth Clement Fine Art, Boston and New York City.
Contributors
Susanne K. Arnold
Richmond, Virginia
A
painter and sculptor, Susanne exhibits her work regionally and nationally. She
holds an MA in Museum Studies and an MFA in Painting from Virginia Commonwealth
University. Honors include a Virginia Museum Fellowship and national artist
grants from the Ludwig Vogelstein and the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb
Foundations. Solo exhibitions include the Portsmouth Museum and the Virginia
Museum of Fine Arts. Her lecture on Ephemeral
Figures in Wax was presented at the 6th and the 7th International Encaustic
Conferences, 2012 and 2013. A retrospective of her artwork was held in
2013 at the McLean Project for the Arts in McLean, Virginia. Susanne
has been working in encaustic since 1963 and has taught it since
1981. She has presented workshops throughout Virginia as an Artist-in-Education
for the Virginia Commission for the Arts and teaches state-wide on a
contractual basis. Her work explores the overlay of cultural history and her
own experiences, utilizing a personal vocabulary of images and the ancient
painting technique of encaustic.
Bakersfield, California
Heidi is an interdisciplinary artist best known for her mixed media paintings using encaustic and photography. Her work is narrative and often references nude studies, architecture, transparent forms, fertility symbols, and found objects. Introspective issues are explored, encouraging the viewer to be transformed to another place and time. At times her art becomes a personal religion, crossing lines between traditional art, other disciplines, and her connection to Spirit. She received her BFA from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, with additional graduate studies at California College of the Arts in Oakland.
Heidi is an interdisciplinary artist best known for her mixed media paintings using encaustic and photography. Her work is narrative and often references nude studies, architecture, transparent forms, fertility symbols, and found objects. Introspective issues are explored, encouraging the viewer to be transformed to another place and time. At times her art becomes a personal religion, crossing lines between traditional art, other disciplines, and her connection to Spirit. She received her BFA from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, with additional graduate studies at California College of the Arts in Oakland.
Pamela Blum
Kingston, New York
Pamela makes sculptures and paintings with encaustic paint. She has exhibited her work throughout the U.S. and in France. She has a BA in studio art and art history from the University of Pennsylvania and an MFA in Interrelated Media from Massachusetts College of Art and Design. She has professional experience in diverse visual disciplines including drawing, color theory, painting, sculptural installation, performance, architecture, physical planning, and graphic design. For three and a half decades she taught full time in colleges and universities at the undergraduate and graduate levels and has taught numerous workshops. She was formerly editor of F.A.T.E. in Review, Journal of Foundations in Art: Theory and Education, and was a member of the Mid-America College Art Association Board of Directors.
Kingston, New York
Pamela makes sculptures and paintings with encaustic paint. She has exhibited her work throughout the U.S. and in France. She has a BA in studio art and art history from the University of Pennsylvania and an MFA in Interrelated Media from Massachusetts College of Art and Design. She has professional experience in diverse visual disciplines including drawing, color theory, painting, sculptural installation, performance, architecture, physical planning, and graphic design. For three and a half decades she taught full time in colleges and universities at the undergraduate and graduate levels and has taught numerous workshops. She was formerly editor of F.A.T.E. in Review, Journal of Foundations in Art: Theory and Education, and was a member of the Mid-America College Art Association Board of Directors.
Elena De La Ville
Sarasota, Florida
Elena is an adjunct faculty member at Ringling College of Art & Design, and teaches at Wildacres Retreat, Art Center Sarasota, and privately in her Sarasota studio. She has been a presenter at seven International Encaustic Conferences. Her practice encompasses photography, textile design, metals, and encaustic. She has shown internationally and is part of the collection of the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Caracas, and Museo Acarigua, Araure, Venezuela.
Sarasota, Florida
Elena is an adjunct faculty member at Ringling College of Art & Design, and teaches at Wildacres Retreat, Art Center Sarasota, and privately in her Sarasota studio. She has been a presenter at seven International Encaustic Conferences. Her practice encompasses photography, textile design, metals, and encaustic. She has shown internationally and is part of the collection of the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Caracas, and Museo Acarigua, Araure, Venezuela.
Patricia Dusman
Doylestown, Pennsylvania
Originally from New York City and now residing in Pennsylvania, Patricia studied printmaking and photography at Bard College. After a successful 20 year career in medical research, she returned to pursue art making full time. She is currently focusing her work on encaustic painting and exploring working with wax in mixed media. She has participated in art fairs and group shows and has been published in international artist books, publications, and exhibition catalogues. She was a presenter at recent International Encaustic Conference with her talk on safety practices in the encaustic studio. In 2016, Patricia received Best of Show for her painting, Fleeting, at the Center for Contemporary Art in Bedminster, N.J. She also curated an exhibition, On Your Mark, at the Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill in conjunction with the 10th International Encaustic Conference. Her work can be found in private collections in the U.S.
Doylestown, Pennsylvania
Originally from New York City and now residing in Pennsylvania, Patricia studied printmaking and photography at Bard College. After a successful 20 year career in medical research, she returned to pursue art making full time. She is currently focusing her work on encaustic painting and exploring working with wax in mixed media. She has participated in art fairs and group shows and has been published in international artist books, publications, and exhibition catalogues. She was a presenter at recent International Encaustic Conference with her talk on safety practices in the encaustic studio. In 2016, Patricia received Best of Show for her painting, Fleeting, at the Center for Contemporary Art in Bedminster, N.J. She also curated an exhibition, On Your Mark, at the Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill in conjunction with the 10th International Encaustic Conference. Her work can be found in private collections in the U.S.
Mid-Hudson Valley, N.Y.
Lorrie's installations are informed by the way human health
and nature intersect at the micro level. She employs seriality and materiality
to create visual verses of beauty, harmony, and awe. She received her BFA from
the Herron School of Art and Design/Indiana University. She has had numerous
solo and group shows throughout the U.S. Recent curatorial projects include Indigo:
The Seventh Color at LABspace (Hillsdale, New York), and she co-curated Compendium
at the Islip Art Museum on Long Island, New York, an exhibition
highlighting the overlapping influences of Science and Art. The New York Foundation for the Arts has twice awarded her.
She has participated in guest residencies and lectures at the Constance
Saltonstall Foundation (Ithaca, N.Y.), and the CUE Art Foundation and Columbia
University, both New York City. Lorrie’s work is included in the collections of
the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville, Florida; Intercept Pharmaceutical;
and the Jyväskylä Art Museum, Jyväskylä, Finland.
Shelley Gilchrist
Evanston, Illinois
Shelley loves to work with color, shape, and the moving line. Her sculptural paintings have received several jurors’ awards at exhibits in the Midwest and East Coast. She has juried exhibits in the Chicago area and held residencies at the Ragdale Foundation and the American Academy in Rome. Her work appears in 2015, 2016, and 2017 issues of Studio Visit as well as Encaustic Art in the 21st Century (2016). She is a member of Chicago Sculpture International, 3-D 12 Chicago Sculptors, and is the founder and president emerita of FusedChicago, a professional group of artists who use encaustic. She holds degrees in philosophy, law, and a BA in Studio Art from Northeastern Illinois University.
Susan Lasch Krevitt
Thousand Oaks, California
Originally from Chicago, Susan now resides in New Orleans and Southern California. She earned her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Susan builds freestanding and wall hung sculptural paintings exploring themes of structure and connection. Her work has been exhibited internationally and across the U.S., most recently in Depth Perception at the Cape Cod Museum of Art. Susan teaches and presents at the International Encaustic Conference and at other venues including her California studio.
Evanston, Illinois
Shelley loves to work with color, shape, and the moving line. Her sculptural paintings have received several jurors’ awards at exhibits in the Midwest and East Coast. She has juried exhibits in the Chicago area and held residencies at the Ragdale Foundation and the American Academy in Rome. Her work appears in 2015, 2016, and 2017 issues of Studio Visit as well as Encaustic Art in the 21st Century (2016). She is a member of Chicago Sculpture International, 3-D 12 Chicago Sculptors, and is the founder and president emerita of FusedChicago, a professional group of artists who use encaustic. She holds degrees in philosophy, law, and a BA in Studio Art from Northeastern Illinois University.
Susan Lasch Krevitt
Thousand Oaks, California
Originally from Chicago, Susan now resides in New Orleans and Southern California. She earned her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Susan builds freestanding and wall hung sculptural paintings exploring themes of structure and connection. Her work has been exhibited internationally and across the U.S., most recently in Depth Perception at the Cape Cod Museum of Art. Susan teaches and presents at the International Encaustic Conference and at other venues including her California studio.
Winston Lee Mascarenhas
Dallas
Dallas
Since retiring from medicine, Winston has pursued his art
career full time. His resume has grown with particular note: winner of the 2014
Hunting Art Prize, an award that recognizes Texas artists of distinction;
inclusion in the Royal Collection at Dumfries House in Scotland and the
permanent collection of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston; participation in the
MFAH exhibition, Line: Making the Mark; inclusion in the 2014 publication, Texas Abstract: Modern/Contemporary; and
r recipient of the Scottish Art in Healthcare Purchase Award 2016 from
his Masters Degree show at the Glasgow School of Art.
Raé Miller
San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
Raé is an American abstract artist who moved to San Miguel de Allende in 2007. She paints and teaches bilingual encaustic and mixed media workshops in her studio at the Fabrica La Aurora, a century-old former textile mill. Her experiences as an expat are a recurring theme in her work as she uses color and gesture to comment on home and dislocation. Her paintings and monotypes have been shown internationally in galleries and public installations. Raé was selected as an artist for Rosewood Mayakobá in Playa del Carmen and at another resort project in Cabo San Lucas. She was a board member of Indian Valley Artists, the group that laid the groundwork for the Marin Museum of Contemporary Art in California. Raé has taught at the International Encaustic Conference. Her solo exhibition, El Peso de la Luz, took place recently at the Centro Cultural El Nigromante Bellas Artes in San Miguel.
Joan Stuart Ross
Seattle and Nahcotta, Washington
Joan was educated at Connecticut College, Yale, and the Universities of Iowa and Washington. Recent exhibitions include venues in Gwangju, Korea; Moses Lake; and the Tacoma Art Museums; and a solo show at RiverSea Gallery in Astoria, Oregon. Joan’s artist residencies include the Centrum Foundation, Pilchuck Glass School, the Espy Foundation, and Playa. She was awarded a Rome Fellowship from the Civita Institute, a fellowship at Cooperhuset in Balestrand, Norway, and a Fulbright-Hays Travel Grant to Vietnam. Joan taught painting, drawing, and printmaking at Seattle colleges and universities for four decades and retired in 2009 from a tenured position at North Seattle College. She is a founding board member of Seattle Print Arts, and partner of BallardWorks, where she maintains her Seattle studio.
San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
Raé is an American abstract artist who moved to San Miguel de Allende in 2007. She paints and teaches bilingual encaustic and mixed media workshops in her studio at the Fabrica La Aurora, a century-old former textile mill. Her experiences as an expat are a recurring theme in her work as she uses color and gesture to comment on home and dislocation. Her paintings and monotypes have been shown internationally in galleries and public installations. Raé was selected as an artist for Rosewood Mayakobá in Playa del Carmen and at another resort project in Cabo San Lucas. She was a board member of Indian Valley Artists, the group that laid the groundwork for the Marin Museum of Contemporary Art in California. Raé has taught at the International Encaustic Conference. Her solo exhibition, El Peso de la Luz, took place recently at the Centro Cultural El Nigromante Bellas Artes in San Miguel.
Joan Stuart Ross
Seattle and Nahcotta, Washington
Joan was educated at Connecticut College, Yale, and the Universities of Iowa and Washington. Recent exhibitions include venues in Gwangju, Korea; Moses Lake; and the Tacoma Art Museums; and a solo show at RiverSea Gallery in Astoria, Oregon. Joan’s artist residencies include the Centrum Foundation, Pilchuck Glass School, the Espy Foundation, and Playa. She was awarded a Rome Fellowship from the Civita Institute, a fellowship at Cooperhuset in Balestrand, Norway, and a Fulbright-Hays Travel Grant to Vietnam. Joan taught painting, drawing, and printmaking at Seattle colleges and universities for four decades and retired in 2009 from a tenured position at North Seattle College. She is a founding board member of Seattle Print Arts, and partner of BallardWorks, where she maintains her Seattle studio.
Ann
Arbor, Michigan
Leslie's
work focuses on the environment and the ways people change, understand, and
interact with it. She is particularly interested in the impact of climate
change. Leslie uses mixed media with encaustic paint to create her work and has
often incorporated maps and scientific data as well as aerial or satellite
imaging. In May 2017 she did a self-designed wilderness artist-in-residence at
Kluane National Park with a group of climate scientists, camping on a glacier
and working at the Kluane Lake Research Station. This residency was
crowd-funded with fiscal sponsorship from Fractured Atlas. In September 2013
she did a month long wilderness based residency sponsored by Colorado Art Ranch
and the Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute at Canyons of the Ancients
National Monument in Southwest Colorado. She is an avid hiker whose connection
with the outdoors is crucial to her work.
Krista Svalbonas
Chicago
Krista Svalbonas is a mixed-media artist. She holds a BFA degree in photography and design from Syracuse University and an interdisciplinary MFA degree in photography, sculpture, and design from SUNY New Paltz. She is heavily influenced by ideas of home and dislocation, stemming from a personal history as the child of parents who arrived in the United States as refugees. Krista was awarded a Bemis Fellowship in 2015. She has had solo, two person, and group exhibitions throughout the United States. She was included in a two year traveling group exhibition in Latvia, where her piece remains in the permanent collection at the Cesis Art Museum. She is a recipient of a Cooper Union artist residency as well as a New Arts Program residency and exhibition and has works in numerous private collections. Krista is currently a lecturer in Photography at Columbia College in Chicago.
Pamela W. Wallace
Kingston, New York
Pamela is a painter/printmaker who resides in the Hudson River Valley following three decades in Virginia. Originally from Minneapolis, she has a BA in human physiology, an MD from Mayo Medical School, and completed a residency in psychiatry at the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine. She was a board certified practicing physician until closing her practice to pursue a BA in painting, followed by two additional years of study in printmaking. Encaustic has been her primary medium since 2005, allowing her to create art that reflects her background in science and engagement with nature. Pamela's work is in private and corporate collections across the United States and has been in solo and group shows nationwide, including the Gallery at R&F, Mid-Atlantic New Painting, and Lanoue Fine Art in Boston. She has received a fellowship to the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, and has twice presented at the International Encaustic Conference. She has taught encaustic workshops in Virginia and the Truro Center for the Arts on Cape Cod.
Chicago
Krista Svalbonas is a mixed-media artist. She holds a BFA degree in photography and design from Syracuse University and an interdisciplinary MFA degree in photography, sculpture, and design from SUNY New Paltz. She is heavily influenced by ideas of home and dislocation, stemming from a personal history as the child of parents who arrived in the United States as refugees. Krista was awarded a Bemis Fellowship in 2015. She has had solo, two person, and group exhibitions throughout the United States. She was included in a two year traveling group exhibition in Latvia, where her piece remains in the permanent collection at the Cesis Art Museum. She is a recipient of a Cooper Union artist residency as well as a New Arts Program residency and exhibition and has works in numerous private collections. Krista is currently a lecturer in Photography at Columbia College in Chicago.
Northern
Ontario, Canada
Anna
began her formal art education early, taking lessons at Art Gallery of Ontario
until she graduated from high school, then continued her studies in fine art at
the University of Alberta. During the 80s and 90s she taught art, first at the
high school level and then, after receiving a PhD in art education in 2000 from
Penn State University, acquired a tenured teaching position at California State
University in Sacramento. She taught art education in the art department for 13
years. Throughout those teaching years she created art and had solo exhibitions
in galleries including the Robert McLaughlin Gallery in Oshawa, The Guild
Gallery in Toronto, CSUS University Union Gallery in Sacramento, and Fine Art
Center in Sacramento. While teaching she continued to participate in numerous
juried exhibitions. Since retiring in 2013, Anna has become a full-time artist
and maintains a studio in Northern Ontario, Canada.
Pamela W. Wallace
Kingston, New York
Pamela is a painter/printmaker who resides in the Hudson River Valley following three decades in Virginia. Originally from Minneapolis, she has a BA in human physiology, an MD from Mayo Medical School, and completed a residency in psychiatry at the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine. She was a board certified practicing physician until closing her practice to pursue a BA in painting, followed by two additional years of study in printmaking. Encaustic has been her primary medium since 2005, allowing her to create art that reflects her background in science and engagement with nature. Pamela's work is in private and corporate collections across the United States and has been in solo and group shows nationwide, including the Gallery at R&F, Mid-Atlantic New Painting, and Lanoue Fine Art in Boston. She has received a fellowship to the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, and has twice presented at the International Encaustic Conference. She has taught encaustic workshops in Virginia and the Truro Center for the Arts on Cape Cod.
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