Minutes from April 18, 2010 meeting

We met at Silvia Thornton's home.

Attendees: Silvia Thornton, Linda Disosway, Mary Wright, Vet and Nancy Ferro.

We talked about Intellectual Property Law in relationship to copyright and how it effects us as artists. Especially when we work with commissions and are asked to put specific imagery into the piece.

Vet reported on the Melting Point Show at the Art Centre of Plano. A great reception and turnout with three pieces selling:

Linda Disosway---Untitled 2

Antoneta Hillman--Traveling Heart

Michelle Pryor--Water Dance

May 10, 10-4 is the pickup of work from the show.

Mary reported on The Encaustic Center opening Friday, April 16, She said Peggy and Cheryl did a great job with their demo's, the work was fab and there was a really good turnout.

Vet told us about the next art exchange, mark your calendar:

ArtCycleTx Exchange, May 16, 10a-4p 235 Murray Street, Dallas Tx 75226

Email: artcycletx@gmail.com for more information. Visit and post comments -ArtCycleTx.blogspot.com. see you there!!

Next meeting TBD

Peggy Epner and Cheryl McClure at The Encaustic Center

Peggy Epner "Forest Falling" and Cheryl McClure "Influenced by the Land"

Opening reception:
Friday, April 16th, 2010
6:00 to 9:00
Show continues through May, 28th

Peggy and Cheryl will be doing a demo on their intriguing techniques at 7:00 and 7:45
We so look forward to having you here for an evening of art, food, wine and music

The Encaustic Center
580 W. Arapaho Rd. #271
Richardson, TX 75080

Caryl Gordon at The Encaustic Center

Caryl Gordon

Redefining Nature

Opening Reception

Friday, February 19th, 2010

6:00 pm to 9:00 pm

Caryl will be doing an encaustic wax demonstration of her collaging process incorporating some of her original materials at 7:00

The encaustics evolved from the monoprints I have been creating over the past 14 years. They are essentially collages using wax as an adherent. I also use the wax to paint areas of the collage. When I construct my monoprints, I often use found objects of flat metal, plastic or wood with unusual textures and shapes to emboss my plates. I now use these same textures and shapes in my encaustics in a variety of ways. Sometimes, I will cut up my monoprints to basically recycle them, using the chosen portions for collage purposes. In addition, I make my own fabric designs on raw canvas using the before-mentioned found objects as stencils, spray painting the canvas with fabric dyes. I use these pieces of cloth in my collages as well. In fact, I use whatever I can find that interests me, a real recycling endeavor, for collaging, stenciling, stamping, tracing, etc. I have been a fine art printmaker since 1996, making mostly monoprints in my home studio in Plano,Texas. I started my art education at the Art Student's League in New York City during high school, studied a year at The School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts and received my BFA from The Cooper Union School of Art and Architecture in New York City in 1975. After four children and a freelance photography business, I went back to my art full time. Since then, my prints have been in juried shows in museums, galleries, universities and art centers all over the country. Just last year I discovered The Encaustic Center in Richardson, Texas and my passion for encaustics came alive! I am tremendously excited by what is for me a new medium, and I hope y'all enjoy looking at my encaustic collage/paintings as much as I have enjoyed creating them!

To view more of my work, please visit my website at www.carylcgordon.com.

October meeting

Carolyn Fox Hearne will be hosting the meeting at Kilgore College.

Ann Dean Turk Fine Arts Building
Kilgore, TX
Sunday, October 18
1-3 pm

Directions from Dallas:
Off of Interstate 20 take the Kilgore exit (HWYS 259 & 31). Stay on
that road until you see the college on the right and an walkway
overpass. We are on the left at the Anne Dean Turk Fine Arts
Building. The building is #27 on the map.

Please deliver your work for the Kilgore show.

Here's a list of the participating artists:
Rhonda Daniel
Brett Dyer
Peggy Epner
Nancy Ferro
Carolyn Fox-Hearne
Darlyne Hartman
Angela Hearne
Deborah Houston
Larry Kitchen
Jackie McClelland
Cheryl McClure
Stan Pearson
Junanne Peck
Janet Reynolds
Juliana Robles
Carolyn Todd
Jan Velayas
Deanna Wood

Hope to see everyone there!

August 16 TexasWax/Dallas Meeting Minutes

In attendance:
Patty Rooney, Mary Wright, Teri Lueders, Michelle Pryor, Susan Sponsler-Carstarphan, Brett Dyer, Carmen Menza, Juliane Robles,Vet, Rhonda Daniel, Silvia Thornton, Margaret Kunkel

Discussed news from Austin:
Membership dues
August 17 deadline to pay or name will be removed from website. (Addendum—Marilyn is not removing any names at this time…) But please if you have not paid sign up thru the website ASAP.

Austin Group Meeting September 19.
All chapters invited. Austin members will present their work, a light lunch will be served 10:30-1:30 p.m. Location: TBD (perhaps Bay6 Gallery and Studios OR Sharon’s house...Hope lots of people from Dallas can come!!

November 7: "10" in Austin (fund raiser show—one night only)
No entry fee. Prices start at $100. 80% to the artist, 20% to TexasWax.

The committees will be in charge of how the proceeds (as with all money) will be spent. Final approval of treasurer and president is always necessary

All pieces s/be 10" x 10" x 2" & address the title "10" Enter up to 5 pieces. Only requirement beyond size is that member has paid dues.

Sharon to put final prospectus out early next week.

TEXASWAX Board Members to be announced very soon!!!
Again the committee chairs will decide where and how funds are to be spent…annual shows, groups shows, individual shows, etc. will fall under programming chair/committee....education is another committee chair...as is communications (advertising, website, promotions, etc.) and then development will be in charge of obtaining more funds when we need them...through grants, donors, membership, etc. Each year we are eligible to elect a new treasurer (in any city) to maintain the account...approve, etc...

Most of the Board members/committee chairs have been chosen and will be announced once the at large position is filled.

Global Swarming:
Deanna is currently finalizing the design of the postcard and will keep us updated. We will have costs to share from reception, postcards and special hardware purchased to hang the show.

All artwork hangs until end of show. The artwork is for sale. TDG takes 10%. They will close out books monthly and issue checks.

Janet is trying to shop the showas well and believes that discussion is in order for future shows.

Pertinent Dates:
The only schedule change was in the entry deadline (Aug 9) and the notification date (now Aug 21)
(Show runs September 1 to January 4, 2010)
August 28th 10-5:00 Deliver artwork to Texas Discovery Gallery
Include artist's statement and resume
August 29th, 10-? Hang Art Saturday
Sept 4, 6-8 TEXASWAX Opening.
Sept 12 & 13. GRAND OPENING ART & BUTTERFLY HOUSE
January 3 Exhibition closes

Next Texas Wax Dallas meeting:
Sunday, Sept 20 from 1 to 2:00 at Texas Discovery Gardens.
3601 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 75210
(214) 428-7476 www.texasdiscoverygardens.org

No ticket is necessary until the fair officially opens. The GRAND OPENING of the Butterfly House is a huge event BEFORE the Fair opens with press & funders in attendance. Fair officially opens Sep 25.

Discussed the good turn-out at the WAXY 100 Show!

Brett Dyer: TCC Exhibit: Encaustic Methods & Techniques
52 pieces are hanging: Opening is Sept. 3, 4-6pm
Postcards were passed out—contact Brett if you need some.
Show closes October 8 and the pick-up of artwork can be discussed at next meeting.

Kilgore College Show: The Alchemy of Encaustic
Oct. 1 Entry deadline. (Form available soon on website)
Deliveries can be made at the Oct. 18 meeting: Location TBD
Oct. 29 Official delivery to Kilgore College....

HOWEVER, if you are coming to the opening and want to help hang the afternoon of the 30th, great! Carolyn will need to have the pieces no later than 2:00 p.m. on the 30th.

October 30 Opening Reception 6:30 to 8:30

The college does not charge commissions on any sales. The checks would be made directly from purchaser to the artist.

For more info. Contact Carolyn at foxhearne@cablelynx.com

Other issues:
Discussed terms for artist compensation and how we need to be very thorough when securing a show as to details of the venue’s policies regarding time frame of payment. Commissions, credit card fees, etc… this is the wake of the Degrees show where such issues/problems arose.

Also discussed how we need to take advantage of the TexasWax (State) website and to be thinking about what we post there as well as/vs. our Dallas site/blogspot…

Teri Lueders encouraged members to sign up to the LinkedIn Texas Wax group. The point of the LinkedIn group is so that we can share our unique business contacts for the purposes of networking, and that once you join, you should be sure and request LinkedIn connections with other members and accept any requests you receive from other Texas Wax members, too. That way we can all can leverage the strength of LinkedIn and possibly take advantage of new business opportunities.

We need a volunteer to host October 18 meeting.

See you all at next meeting Sept 20 @ TDG!!

Meeting minutes - April 19, 2009

We met at The Encaustic Center in Richardson.

Present were: Peggy Epner, Diane Dorn, Mary Wright, VET, Trayc Claybrook, Janet Reynolds, Charlotte Cornett, Silvia Thornton, Junanne Peck, Patty Rooney, Michelle Pryor, Juliana Robles, Cheryl McClure, Carolyn Fox-Hearne, Bibi Gill, Ivonne Acero, Bonny Leibowitz, and Deanna Wood.

We collected the work for the Degrees show in Houston. Deanna is going to deliver it to the gallery on Sunday, May 3rd.

Each exhibiting artist is responsible for $3 for the postcards and $15 for food. Deanna collected the postcard money and some food money, since the finalized food cost wasn't known at the time.

The opening exhibit for Degrees is Saturday, May 9th at Gallery M Squared. I hope everybody can make it to Houston!

VET talked about Melt Down, the Art Hotel show coming up this summer. She'll send more info soon, but this is the preliminary info:
The show will be in July at the Art Hotel, 1112 S. Akard, Dallas.
Bring artwork to the June meeting that VET is hosting at the Art Hotel.
VET or the gallery owner will curate from images (more info to come).
She's going to work on setting up a workshop to tie in to the show.
The show will be up for a month.
Each person can probably have 3 or 4 pieces.

Deanna proposed Brett's idea to have a group show at the TCC Southeast Campus gallery. There's a large space and it can accommodate work from many of our past shows. He wants the theme to be encaustic materials and methods and suggested that we come up with a name that's descriptive fo that idea. So we brainstormed some names and decided to give them to Brett to decide the final one.

Update: Brett decided on a title - Encaustic Methods: TexasWAX/Dallas

He'll have dates and more info soon.

Janet reported on the Global Swarming show at the Texas Discovery Gardens. She's going to meet with them soon and will send out more information. Patty was going to contact someone she knows to get a quote on hexagon panels.

Carolyn is looking at the gallery schedule at Kilgore College and will try to get us a group show there. Possibly in December, but she'll get back to us with more info.

Charlotte reported on the New Mexico Wax show that she saw in Santa Fe. She said that the group there would like to have a show with us as well.

Our next meeting will be on Sunday, May 24, at Ivonne Acero's studio - 3116 Commerce St, Suite E, Dallas.