Here are a few images from the Some Like It Hot reception last night at the Bath House Cultural Center in Dallas.
We'll be doing a hands-on demo on Saturday, September 13 at 2:00 pm. I hope you can join us!
Sunday, August 31, 2008
Some Like It Hot
Here are a few images from the Some Like It Hot reception last night at the Bath House Cultural Center in Dallas.We'll be doing a hands-on demo on Saturday, September 13 at 2:00 pm. I hope you can join us!
Saturday, July 26, 2008
Some Like It Hot
Please join us for one hot art show!Some Like It Hot!
Art by the members of TexasWAX/Dallas
Curated by Janet Reynolds
Bath House Cultural Center
521 E. Lawther Drive, Dallas, Texas
August 30 - September 27, 2008
Reception: August 30, 7-9 pm
Encaustic Demos: September 13, 2-5 pm
In conjunction with the DADA art walk
Hope to see you there!
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
July 20, 2008 Meeting
We met at Janet Reynolds' beautiful new home.
In attendance: Deanna Wood, Mary Wright, Silvia Thornton, Charlotte Cornett, Junanne Peck, Trayc Claybrook, Janet Reynolds, Carmen Menza, and Mirtha Aertker
Joan Hart attended to find out about the group and Janet's friend Mar was also visiting.
We discussed the upcoming TexasWAX/Dallas show at the Bath House Cultural Center. We had decided on the title Some Like it Hot. Appropriate for Texas in August...
Important dates:
Sunday, July 27 - Janet needs your RSVP if you would like to be in the show. Send her up to 3 jpg images (72 dpi) with all the pertinent information (title, size, media, etc.) Ideally the work will have been completed within the last year. Work that you exhibited in our first show in February is acceptable. The only criteria is that it have wax in it in some way. The images can be of work in progress.
Sunday, August 24, 11am-1pm - drop off work at the Bath House
Saturday, August 30, 7-9pm - opening reception
Saturday, September 13, 2-4pm - encaustic demos in conjunction with DADA's fall gallery walk
Saturday, September 27 - show closes
Sunday, September 28, 11am-1pm - pick up work at the Bath House
Our show is in conjunction with a show of women printmakers. Janet will contact them to find out if they will be serving alcohol during the reception (the Bath House has rules about serving alcohol and we'd like to just kind of piggy back on their setup if they're doing it).
The Bath House will handle press for the event. They don't do postcards any more, but I said that I would be willing to design a small jpg image that can be emailed with all the info. So I'll get that out to everyone soon.
fyi - the url for the Bath House is http://www.bathhousecultural.com/index.html
I announced that Trayc and I will have a show in Denton at the Center for Visual Arts - Waxy Buildup: Cleaning House. The opening reception is Sunday, August 17.
We had an informal swap of some art supplies and other materials.
We talked a little about a possible theme for a future show dealing with the environment and the decline of the bees.
We also mentioned a possible retreat and I said I would check with Sharon in Austin. She's working on something for all 3 groups.
Then we watched the dvd Sister Bee, a short documentary about beekeeping. I met the filmmaker, Laura Tyler at the encaustic conference this year. She's also an artist who works in encaustic. Here's her blog, in case you're interested in checking out her work:
http://www.lauratyler.com/wordpress/
Next meeting - Sunday, August 24, immediately following the drop off at the Bath House. Janet will find out if we can meet at the Bath House. If not, we can meet at her house again.
In attendance: Deanna Wood, Mary Wright, Silvia Thornton, Charlotte Cornett, Junanne Peck, Trayc Claybrook, Janet Reynolds, Carmen Menza, and Mirtha Aertker
Joan Hart attended to find out about the group and Janet's friend Mar was also visiting.
We discussed the upcoming TexasWAX/Dallas show at the Bath House Cultural Center. We had decided on the title Some Like it Hot. Appropriate for Texas in August...
Important dates:
Sunday, July 27 - Janet needs your RSVP if you would like to be in the show. Send her up to 3 jpg images (72 dpi) with all the pertinent information (title, size, media, etc.) Ideally the work will have been completed within the last year. Work that you exhibited in our first show in February is acceptable. The only criteria is that it have wax in it in some way. The images can be of work in progress.
Sunday, August 24, 11am-1pm - drop off work at the Bath House
Saturday, August 30, 7-9pm - opening reception
Saturday, September 13, 2-4pm - encaustic demos in conjunction with DADA's fall gallery walk
Saturday, September 27 - show closes
Sunday, September 28, 11am-1pm - pick up work at the Bath House
Our show is in conjunction with a show of women printmakers. Janet will contact them to find out if they will be serving alcohol during the reception (the Bath House has rules about serving alcohol and we'd like to just kind of piggy back on their setup if they're doing it).
The Bath House will handle press for the event. They don't do postcards any more, but I said that I would be willing to design a small jpg image that can be emailed with all the info. So I'll get that out to everyone soon.
fyi - the url for the Bath House is http://www.bathhousecultural.com/index.html
I announced that Trayc and I will have a show in Denton at the Center for Visual Arts - Waxy Buildup: Cleaning House. The opening reception is Sunday, August 17.
We had an informal swap of some art supplies and other materials.
We talked a little about a possible theme for a future show dealing with the environment and the decline of the bees.
We also mentioned a possible retreat and I said I would check with Sharon in Austin. She's working on something for all 3 groups.
Then we watched the dvd Sister Bee, a short documentary about beekeeping. I met the filmmaker, Laura Tyler at the encaustic conference this year. She's also an artist who works in encaustic. Here's her blog, in case you're interested in checking out her work:
http://www.lauratyler.com/wordpress/
Next meeting - Sunday, August 24, immediately following the drop off at the Bath House. Janet will find out if we can meet at the Bath House. If not, we can meet at her house again.
Monday, July 7, 2008
Next meeting July 20
Hope you can join us for the next TexasWAX/Dallas meeting!
July 20
1-3
Janet's studio in Dallas
Bring art for discussion and/or materials to exchange. We will be finalizing plans for the August show at the Bath House. Reminder: the people who attend meetings make decisions.
July 20
1-3
Janet's studio in Dallas
Bring art for discussion and/or materials to exchange. We will be finalizing plans for the August show at the Bath House. Reminder: the people who attend meetings make decisions.
June 22 meeting
The meeting was held on Sunday, June 22 at Silvia Thornton's studio in Lakewood. In attendance were Silvia, Janet Reynolds, Vet, Robin Walker, and new member Mirtha Aertker who is a sculptor.
Robin Ann Walker
www.art-girls.com
Janet announced that she has heard from Enrique at the Bath House in regards to our proposal for having a show there. Apparently we made it to the short list, but in an auspicious turn of events they had a group cancel, and we were asked to take the time slot. Janet spoke for all of us when she said YES! Consequently, Texas Wax Dallas has a show scheduled at the Bath House late August through Sept 2008. Dates and specifics will be furnished by Janet. What we know is that our show will run concurrently with a Women Printmaker's show. We need to name our exhibition, and it would be good to coordinate with the print show. Again, Janet will give us the details as soon as she finds out. In addition, we will soon need a decision on how many of our members will be participating in the show, and then determine how many pieces each exhibiting member will show.
In addition to the show itself, we talked about including a day-long demonstration of wax techniques by our members, via work stations set up in the space. Again, we agreed it would be best to see what the printmakers have scheduled in order to coordinate events to draw a larger crowd.
We also discussed the possibility of mounting a show at the MAC. Silvia said that she talked to the director there who seemed interested in our work. We spent a lot of time brainstorming ideas for this -- including ways to tie in our work with the environment, specifically the declining bee population worldwide. Janet has a contact who is a beekeeper - we could bring him in for a talk. Again, we agreed it was a good idea to provide some community outreach in the form of a demonstration and/or artist's talk.
Another idea: We discussed bringing unwanted (but perfectly good) art materials to our meetings for a "materials exchange". We all have items in our studios that we don't use or need, and this is a good way to recycle.
I have a guy who makes custom boxes for me. With his permission I am sharing his contact information: Brian 214-821-5430
Next Meeting: July 20, 2008 at Janet Reynolds, 8910 San Leandro, Dallas, 75218 from 1-3 pm. Bring art for discussion and/or materials to exchange. We will be finalizing plans for the August show at the Bath House. Reminder: the people who attend meetings make decisions. See you there!
Robin Ann Walker
www.art-girls.com
Thursday, May 22, 2008
May 18, 2008 meeting
Members in attendance:
Junanne Peck, Mary Wright, Silvia Thornton, Vet, Diane Dorn, and Deanna Wood.
We gathered at Deanna's studio for a meeting and for some encaustic monotype fun.
I did a demo of the little that I know about monotypes, and Junanne showed a method that she had developed. Then everyone worked on a few experimental monotypes of their own.
Junanne announced that she sent a proposal to the Texas Artist's Museum in Port Arthur.
More discussion on creating a uniform proposal. I said I would edit the existing list that Janet had created for the Bath House proposal. I did, and it's on our Google Group site, under Files. It's a pdf file called "texas_wax_dallas_image_list.pdf" and there is also a zip file that includes everyone's resumes and statements, called "dallas_resumes_and_statements.zip" Feel free to use these to submit a group proposal should you come across a call that looks promising.
I need to get resumes and statements from our new members, so please email them to me and I'll get them added to our proposal information.
I reported on my trip to Houston where I met with Sharon Kyle-Kuhn from TexasWAX/Austin, and Gwen Plunkett and some other members from TexasWAX/Houston. We brainstormed about possible future exhibitions for the combined group and came up with this:
We will have a members' juried or curated show in March of 2009. Sharon will offer her gallery as the venue for the show. The theme will be "Degrees," and each artist will submit work that somehow interprets that theme. Sharon, Gwen, and I are still working on the details.
We had some discussion in our group about the size requirements for this show. Sharon, Gwen, and I had thought we might require 24" x 24" but the Houston group thought that was too much like "box shows" that are popular now (where all works are 12" x 12", for example). We proposed possibly just limiting the size to 96 square inches.
In our meeting, Silvia suggested creating work on "degrees" of that size - either 6" x 6", or 12" x 12", or 18" x 18", or 24" x 24".
So we'll figure that out. For now, just be thinking about "Degrees" and how you'll interpret it.
Sharon Kyle-Kuhn and her husband have created a forum for discussion and sharing information on Texas encaustic happenings. Be sure to check out the TexasWAX forum.
The International Encaustic Artists have 2 calls for entries listed on their website that are open to encaustic art.
I'll be heading to the Second National Encaustic Painting Conference in Massachusetts in June. I'll bring back lots of information to share with everyone!
The next meeting will be at Silvia's on June 22nd, from 1-3 pm.
Photos from the meeting:
Mary
Vet
Diane
Junanne demonstrating her method
Junanne demonstrating her method
Junanne demonstrating her method
finished piece on the left, "plate" on the right
Junanne Peck, Mary Wright, Silvia Thornton, Vet, Diane Dorn, and Deanna Wood.
We gathered at Deanna's studio for a meeting and for some encaustic monotype fun.
I did a demo of the little that I know about monotypes, and Junanne showed a method that she had developed. Then everyone worked on a few experimental monotypes of their own.
Junanne announced that she sent a proposal to the Texas Artist's Museum in Port Arthur.
More discussion on creating a uniform proposal. I said I would edit the existing list that Janet had created for the Bath House proposal. I did, and it's on our Google Group site, under Files. It's a pdf file called "texas_wax_dallas_image_list.pdf" and there is also a zip file that includes everyone's resumes and statements, called "dallas_resumes_and_statements.zip" Feel free to use these to submit a group proposal should you come across a call that looks promising.
I need to get resumes and statements from our new members, so please email them to me and I'll get them added to our proposal information.
I reported on my trip to Houston where I met with Sharon Kyle-Kuhn from TexasWAX/Austin, and Gwen Plunkett and some other members from TexasWAX/Houston. We brainstormed about possible future exhibitions for the combined group and came up with this:
We will have a members' juried or curated show in March of 2009. Sharon will offer her gallery as the venue for the show. The theme will be "Degrees," and each artist will submit work that somehow interprets that theme. Sharon, Gwen, and I are still working on the details.
We had some discussion in our group about the size requirements for this show. Sharon, Gwen, and I had thought we might require 24" x 24" but the Houston group thought that was too much like "box shows" that are popular now (where all works are 12" x 12", for example). We proposed possibly just limiting the size to 96 square inches.
In our meeting, Silvia suggested creating work on "degrees" of that size - either 6" x 6", or 12" x 12", or 18" x 18", or 24" x 24".
So we'll figure that out. For now, just be thinking about "Degrees" and how you'll interpret it.
Sharon Kyle-Kuhn and her husband have created a forum for discussion and sharing information on Texas encaustic happenings. Be sure to check out the TexasWAX forum.
The International Encaustic Artists have 2 calls for entries listed on their website that are open to encaustic art.
I'll be heading to the Second National Encaustic Painting Conference in Massachusetts in June. I'll bring back lots of information to share with everyone!
The next meeting will be at Silvia's on June 22nd, from 1-3 pm.
Photos from the meeting:
Mary
Vet
Diane
Junanne demonstrating her method
Junanne demonstrating her method
Junanne demonstrating her method
finished piece on the left, "plate" on the rightMonday, May 19, 2008
Mini TexasWAX meetup
Deanna in Gwen's studioA couple of weeks ago, I had to go to Houston to switch out some artwork at Koelsch Gallery, and I stayed with Gwen Plunkett while I was there.
We had a lovely time visiting and she was nice enough to schlep me all over Houston.
Sharon Kyle-Kuhn drove from Austin and met us and we visited the Menil, The Cy Twombly Gallery, The Rothko Chapel, and the Byzantine Fresco Chapel Museum. We all got together at Cynthia Robertson's home with some other members of the TexasWAX/Houston group - Julia Koivumaa and Suzanne Shield-Polk.
We discussed possible future group exhibitions and everyone seemed to like the idea of having a group show (combined Houston/Dallas/Austin members) at Sharon's Bay6 Gallery in Austin in March of 2009.
We decided on the theme of "Degrees," with each artist creating a piece interpreting that theme in some way. We also want to get someone to curate or jury the show. We're working on the details of that now.
I really enjoyed hanging out with Gwen and meeting Sharon, Julia, Cynthia, and Suzanne. And it always amazes me how much art there is in Houston... I just wish my camera hadn't decided to delete all the pictures that I took there! Gwen's camera was being weird, too, and the picture above is the only photographic evidence that remains of the trip.
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