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A New Workshop in Los Angeles!

R&F is gearing up for our second workshop at Wal-Art studios in Los Angeles, August 6-9, 2009. There is still room for more participants, but don’t delay in signing up because the last time we ran this class it filled up quickly at the last minute.

Daniella Woolf will once again be leading the LA workshop, and she will no doubt have some new tricks up her sleeve, having recently visited R&F to take part in our Photo & Encaustic workshop, which we run in collaboration with the Center for Photography at Woodstock. Daniella grew up in a movie biz family in Los Angeles, and holds an M.A. in Design (Textile Structures) from UCLA. She swung like Tarzan from ceramics to jewelry to fiber, textiles and collage until she found encaustic. It was the magic medium that brought everything into focus. She exhibits nationally and internationally, and explores issues of privacy, security and identity. She is a recipient of the Gail Rich Award for excellence in the Arts in Santa Cruz, and the Rydell Visual Arts Fellowship. She toggles between studios in Santa Cruz and Whidbey Island, and is active in IEA and the Surface Design Association. She blogs at Encausticopolis and EncausticFiberopolis under the name Dotty Stripes. To view more of Daniella’s work, go to www.daniellawoolf.com.

Click here to learn more about the Los Angeles Encaustic Workshop and register online or give us a call to sign up!

R&F at the 3rd Annual Encaustic Conference at Montserrat College

R&F is excited to be attending the Third Annual Encaustic Painting Conference at Montserrat College of Art. With 3 days of vendors, demonstrations, lectures, and over 200 attendees, all will be a buzz.

So stop by our vendor booth and say hello to Darin and Anne. In addition to special conference prices, there will be special colors: Aquamarine Blue, Stil de Grain and Blood Orange.

R&F President Richard Frumess will be giving a lecture entitled What is Paint? Instructor Danielle Correia will be demonstrating on Photograhy and Encaustic and Instructor Cynthia Winika will be demonstrating on Paper and Encaustic.

The conference runs Friday June 6th – Sunday June 8th. This is sure to be the encaustic event of the year so don’t miss out.

Visiting Artist Workshops: Kim Bernard

The dust is just now beginning to settle in our workshop studio from Kim Bernards‘ Visiting Artist Workshop here at R&F last week.  Kim presented ‘Beyond 3-D; Into the Third Dimension’ to a group of lucky artists who spent three days working intensively on mixed media sculptural and relief works using wax, clay & plaster, among other materials.  We had to do a lot of cleaning afterward but the results were well worth the effort.

Other Visiting Artist Workshops this year include:

Breaking the Rules: Mixed Media with Russell Thurston / July 29 – 31
and
Monotype and Beyond with Paula Roland / December 1-4