Montserrat First Annual Encaustic Conference June 8-10, 2007

Many IEA members both participated and attended Montserrat College of Art's First Annual Encaustic Conference held in Beverly, MA June 8-10th.

Board Member Eileen Goldenberg submitted the following photos to give you a taste of the event:


Joanne Mattera's house party, the painting in the background is the one on the cover of her book.


Hylla Evans, Kim Bernard and Lissa Rankin at Joanne's party.


Cari Hernandez with her birthday cake at the IEA hosted party at the Salem Waterfront Hotel.


Alesandro with crowd at artists talks at the Encaustic show at Montserrat.


A piece with copper wire at show.


The Collaborati working it, from left Cari Hernandez, Eileen Goldenberg, Daniella Woolf.


State of the Art panel with, from left, Joanne, Tim McDowell, Katherine French, Richard Frumass, Hope Burwell, Barbara O'Brien.


Eileen's Wax head.


Linda Womack making repairs in the gallery.


Joanne at a demo...James Meyer to the left.


George Mason demo with paper stencils.


Amazing piece at the show.

Masters Class by Joanne Mattera on Nov 11, 2006

Joanne Mattera was the guest speaker at a Masters Encaustics Class hosted by Hylla Evans (IEA member) of Evans Encaustics. Both IEA members and non-members alike attended. The class was held at the Arts Guild of Sonoma from 10 - 5 pm.

Joanne, author of "The Art of Encaustic Painting", went beyond the encaustic painting bible, and offered individually focused Q&A to address specific questions from the attendees. Topics ranged from supports to surfaces, to packing/shipping and much more. We then went around while some of the attendees, who had brought artwork with them, said something briefly about their work and took feedback and comments from Joanne and class participants. Finally, Joanne showed a slide presentation of examples of encaustic work from the Faiyum funeral portraits through the Jasper Johns era and many of the contemporary artists producing encaustic art now in galleries and museums.

Here are several photos from the day: