WAX ENCAUSTIC ON CERAMIC SCULPTURE

zoom Workshop with Adrian Arleo

Saturday, JULY 23th, 2022 - 10 Am - 12 pm (Pacific time)

Course Description

The word “Encaustic” comes from the Greek word enkaustikos, which means to burn in or fuse. It’s the oldest known pigment binder, originating in Greece in the 5th century BC. and is made from a molten mixture of beeswax, tree resin and pigment. People often wonder how archival it is: the oldest surviving encaustic paintings are the Romano-Egyptian Fayum mummy portraits from Egypt dating around 100–300 AD. In this two hour workshop, Adrian will go over how she has made and used wax encaustic on her ceramic sculpture over the past 30 years. Through discussion and a video demonstration, participants will gain an understanding of many different ways encaustic can be used on a variety of ceramic surfaces. Open to all levels of clay experience. This is a demonstration workshop, not a hands-on class.

Workshop fee is $50.

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR

ADRIAN ARLEO has spent the last 29 years living outside Missoula, Montana, with her family and a menagerie of animals. She works full time as a ceramic sculptor, and says this about her work: “For 40 years, my sculpture has combined human, animal and natural imagery to create a kind of emotional and poetic power. Often there's a suggestion of a vital interconnection between the human and non-human realms; the imagery arises from associations, concerns and obsessions that are at once intimate and universal. The work frequently references mythology and archetypes in addressing our vulnerability amid changing personal, environmental and political realities.”

She studied Art and Anthropology at Pitzer College (B.A. 1983) and received her M.F.A. in ceramics from Rhode Island School of Design in 1986. Adrian was an Artist in Residence at Oregon College of Art and Craft in 1986-87, at Sitka Center for Art and Ecology in 1987-88, and in 2012 was an invited artist for the Jordan Schnitzer Printmaking Residency, also at Sitka Center for Art and Ecology. Adrian’s work is exhibited nationally and internationally, and is in numerous public and private collections. She received awards from the Virginia A. Groot Foundation in 1991 and 1992, and in 1995 was awarded a Montana Arts Council Individual Fellowship. Her work has been widely published in books, magazines and online, and she is a frequent workshop instructor across the US and abroad.