Wax Poetic, Contemporary Encaustic

Opening reception, Friday, November 4th, 6-9pm.

Wax Poetic, Contemporary Encaustic features 13 artists from around the country showing the various ways encaustic as a medium can be used in art.

Encaustic can be traced back thousands of years and is simply bees wax, mixed with resin and generally a pigment which is used in creating works of art.

Artists include:

Dora Ficher, Philadelphia, PA

Clarissa Shanahan, Philadelphia, PA

Scott Nichols, Philadelphia, PA

Leah MacDonald, Philadelphia, PA

Larry Calkins, Seattle,WA

Crista Matteson, Seattle,WA

Caryl Gordon, Plano, TX

Michael Billie, Cerrillos, NM

Lynda Ray, Richmond, VA

Tara Tieso, St. Paul, MN

Colleen Patricia Williams, Portland, OR

Pat Spainhour, Winston-Salem, NC

Patty Castner, Jenkintown, PA