July Texas Wax Meeting – Austin Group

Members of the Texas Wax Austin group met Saturday morning at the Dougherty Art Center from about 10:30am – 12:30pm.  Here are the items we discussed:

1. Committee Chair Positions: The deadline for expressing interest in serving as chairs or members of the Texas Wax committees of Education, Programming, Communications, and Development.  Members from all area groups are encouraged to apply. Should you be interested in any of these, please send your info and area of interest to Sharon Kyle Kuhn by July 31st.
2. August Meeting:  The August meeting will be held at the Dougherty Arts Center at the usual time (10:30am – 12:30pm) on August 15th.  Carolyn Todd will chair.
3. September Meeting: Plans include:
   • extended meeting time (10:30am – 1:30pm), to include lunch
   • bring one piece of work to present to the group; each person will have 3 minutes for a focused talk about their piece
   • bring a guest who may be interested in encaustic
   • members of the other Texas Wax groups will be our guests

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Texas Wax Austin Members Heating Things Up at Majestic Ranch

Eleven members of the Austin group of Texas Wax spent this past weekend heating things up in an encaustic painting workshop at Majestic Ranch in Boerne, TX. Carolyn Todd, Sharon Kyle-Kuhn, Maggie Jordan, Marianne Sexton, Roxi McCloskey, Kristy Battani, Daphne Holland, Dianne Talley, Kerry Washburn, Marilyn Fenn and David Pound met early Saturday morning in the hilltop classroom for the two day workshop. Roxie McCloskey gave several painting technique demonstrations, and the group exchanged various tips and techniques, but mostly the artists were quite immersed in painting.

Saturday night, after the day’s painting was done, the group enjoyed dinner out together at a brew pub in Boerne.

Many thanks to Roxi McCloskey and Daphne Holland for organizing this event, and to all the artists who took part. A special thanks to David Pound, for bringing a whole vanload of cool stuff to share with the other artists! It was a great weekend, and one that we hope will be just the first of many such workshops to come!

“10″ a fundraiser to benefit Texas Wax

November 7th….Mark your calendars and plan to attend the first annual fundraiser for Texas Wax.  Each associate member of Texas Wax will have up to 5 pieces of encaustic artwork in the show.  The silent auction for the 10″ x 10″ x 1.5″ pieces will begin at $100 per piece and the highest bidder goes home with amazingly beautiful artwork.  What fun for everyone and what a huge opportunity to purchase encaustic artwork.  There will be live music, great food and lots of people present….plan to attend!!!!  to be held at Bay6 Gallery and Studios in Austin, Texas—November 7th 7:00 p.m.-10:00 p.m.  www.bay6studios.com

Marilyn conducts website tutorial at Bay6 Studios

Marilyn Fenn helps Kristy Battani, Juan Moreno, Sharon Kyle Kuhn, Carolyn Todd, Cari Washburn and David Pound struggle through learning how to set up our gallery, how to blog and how to set up our profile…thanks Marilyn..we couldn’t do this without you!!!!

Bee Team Interviews

Texas Wax members, Sharon Kyle Kuhn and Deanna Wood were recently interviewed by Shannon Newby, the leader of the Etsy “Bee Team“. Etsy.com is a website for selling handcrafted goods, including artwork. Members of the Bee Team create products with wax in them, such as handmade candles and soaps as well as one of a kind encaustic paintings.

More and more members of Texas Wax are starting to launch their own Etsy sites so expect collaboration between the two teams sometime in the near future. Until then, please enjoy the following two podcasts, which are a way to learn more about some of the great individuals within our group and the exciting events that are coming up!

Photos from Degrees Exhibition

The Degrees exhibition was a great success! Enjoy the highlights below, including images from the reception and some snapshots of the individual works. See pictures from all our events on our Press Page.

 

P.S. Members – if you have additional images you would like to add, please contact Haley or Marilyn and we’ll upload them to the site. Thanks!