Global Swarming Talk at the MAC

November 12, 2008
6:30 PM

McKinney Avenue Contemporary
3120 McKinney Avenue, Dallas 75204

Where would we be without pollinators in our natural world?

How would this effect food production?

What are the environmental, social and economic impacts of this?

Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) is a phenomenon currently effecting honeybees. What is at hand appears to be a perfect storm created by pesticides, introduced pathogens, viruses and perhaps GMO foods. Research is ongoing in this critical area.

Panel members:
Brandon and Susan Pollard, Texas Honeybee Guild
Deanna Wood, Founder, Texas WAX/Dallas
Janet Reynolds, Texas Master Naturalist, member of Texas WAX/Dallas

Next Meeting

Please join us for our next meeting!

Sunday, November 16th
1-3 pm

Trayc's studio:
3116 Commerce St, Dallas Tx
Suite E

Hope to see you there!

October 2008 Meeting

We had a great meeting at the Bath House today!

Let's see if I can remember who all was there:
Deanna Wood, Mary Wright, Robin Walker, Janet Reynolds, Silvia Thornton, Susan Sponsler, Junanne Peck, Trayc Claybrook, and Vet.

We were joined by new members Jackie Chaiken, Nancy Lea, Juliana Robles, and Peggy Epner. Oh and some random guy named Paul who makes candles happened to be walking by and heard someone talking about wax. Junanne gave him her contact info, so if she goes missing, that's why. :-)

If I missed someone (I know I did), I apologize...

Some Like It Hot:
Junanne talked about the Some Like It Hot (now) touring exhibition. At least 4 people from the Houston group will be participating as well.

Junanne took the work that will be traveling on to the Texas Artists Museum in Port Arthur.

Here's the timeline:
*ASAP - submit your images to Junanne (even if you sent them to Janet prior to the Bath House show, please send them to Junanne), along with information on each piece - title, media, size, price
October 29 - deadline for work to be delivered to Junanne
October 31st - she will drive the work down to Port Arthur
November 1 - installation
November 9, 2:30 - 4:00 - reception - demo at 3 pm (someone from the Houston group will do the demo)
November 29 - Junanne will pick up the work from Port Arthur and take it to her studio in Fort Worth

Junanne has also secured a spot for the exhibition at the Firehouse Gallery in Fort Worth, Feb 9 - March 7th, 2009. We have the option to do a workshop or demo.

Thanks so much to Junanne for doing all this!

Global Swarming:
November 12, 2008 - we're still scheduled to do the panel discussion at the MAC - on the panel will be me, Janet, and 2 beekeepers. Hope everyone can make it! At that time we'll submit a proposal for the show for next year.

September, 2009 - the Global Swarming show will be on exhibit at the Texas Discovery Gardens in Fair Park during the fair. We can be a major part of the facility's opening celebration.

We can have a presentation of work at the same time at the MAC, along with possible talks and demos.

Degrees:
May 9 - May 31, 2009 at M2 Gallery in Houston .

Gwen from the Houston group has secured this show for the 4 TexasWAX groups. I'll be sending out the formal prospectus as soon as it's finalized.

The theme is "Degrees." Interpret that however you would like.

The Bee Team:
I shared information about The Bee Team, a group of Etsy sellers that I joined recently:

They have a blog as well.

So if you have any wax/encaustic work on Etsy, please join.

They are also working on a show dealing with Colony Collapse Disorder, so perhaps we can join forces with them at some point.

White Rock Lake Artist's Tour:
October 18 & 19, 2008
Silvia will be participating in this studio tour. Visit the official website for more info.

Next meeting:
Sunday, November 16, 1-3 at Trayc's studio in Deep Ellum - directions to follow. Hope to see everyone there!

October Meeting

Just a reminder that the October meeting of TexasWAX/Dallas is Saturday, October 4, 11:00 - 1:00 at the Bath House Cultural Center in Dallas.

We'll be picking up our work from the Some Like It Hot exhibition or passing it along to Junanne Peck, who secured a show for us at the Texas Artist Museum in Port Arthur, Texas. Thanks, Junanne! So that makes Some Like It Hot officially a touring exhibition. That's exciting! Oh, and the TexasWAX/Houston is participating, too, since they're so close to Port Arthur.

Hope to see everyone at the Bath House.

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!

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!

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.