Meeting at the Inn on the Riverwalk - Nov, 21st 2008

The cold front may have come in to San Antonio, but we were waxing warm and eloquent discussing fall things bright and beautiful at our November meeting at Inn on the Riverwalk. Welcome to new members Joyce Howell, Deborah Houston, Adrian Highsmith, and Hildegard Slaughter. They were greeted by founding members Michelle Belto, Johanna Gardner, Steven DaLuz, Beth Preston, Frankeen Price, and Jules Ogan. Thanks again to Johanna Gardner for the use of her lovely inn, a perfect getaway spot and site of First Friday art happenings in downtown San Antonio. Encaustic artists may contact Johanna for a First Friday showing.

The room was abuzz as we showed our latest artwork and shared resources and techniques. We all felt the excitement building like layers of wax as we compared notes on the recent joint Texas Wax-Austin/San Antonio encaustic show, "Fused Expressions," at Bay 6 Gallery and Studio in Austin and talked about the upcoming encaustic show, "Degrees," which will open at M2 Gallery in Houston May 9, 2009, and run through May 31. The show will then travel to the other three cities in the Texas Wax group, Dallas, Austin, and San Antonio. The purpose of this show is to introduce encaustics to Texas. We also discussed gallery and workshop options that would coincide with the show's arrival in San Antonio. We are still waiting to hear whether our proposal for a group encaustic demo at Luminaria, a one-evening art event in San Antonio, March 14, 2009, has been accepted. Thank you to Johanna Gardner for submitting the proposal and for her great work putting together the blogspot. Happy birthday wishes and special thanks to Michelle Belto, our fearless leader, for her work in organizing and facilitating our meetings.

Upcoming shows of members include Steve DaLuz, oil and mixed media, at AnArte Gallery in San Antonio through Nov. 29, and Buchanan Gallery in Houston opening Dec. 6 and running for about a month. Kudos to Steve for the great feature article on "72," the show at AnArte Gallery, in S.A. Life in Sunday's "San Antonio Express News." Also, Michelle Belto and Beth Preston will be showing encuastics at the Euclid Avenue art show Saturday, Dec. 6 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday, Dec. 7, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Frankeen Price will host the December meeting at her home studio on December 16th from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. Bring a dish to share and a small gift of artwork to exchange.

Congratulations to all for such high quality work. It is wonderful to see the range in application of this new-old medium and exciting to be on the cutting edge of its reintroduction to the art world.

Until the next meeting, wax prolific!


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