Instructor: Wayne Montecalvo
Monday - Wednesday
June 1 - 3
10am - 4pm
3 sessions

From the Bottom Up: Working with mixed media, collage, layering, digital images and encaustic. This workshop will cover methods to use encaustic medium as a binder with Japanese papers and combine hand drawing, photo based images, mark making, acrylic paint, India ink, pencil, charcoal, and more, on a surface. Students images will be printed ahead of the class on specific Japanese papers. The images will then be used to create a composition on prepared surfaces or panels. Students will be encouraged to incorporate their own materials as well if they want. The class will address ways to make use of accidents and embrace the uncontrollable and the unplanned while creating an artwork.

Wayne Montecalvo is a multi-disciplinary artist who holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. He currently lives and maintains his studio in Rosendale, New York. Montecalvo’s work has been featured in solo and two-person exhibitions at The Hall of Awa Japanese Handmade Paper, Yamakawa, Tokushima, Japan; Muroff Kotler Visual Arts Gallery, SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge, NY; and CHRCH Project Space, Cottekill, NY. From 1998-2013 Wayne worked in the Art Department at the State University of New York, New Paltz campus, and taught as an adjunct employee from 2010-2013. From 2014- and currently, works as a freelance artist from his own studio. From 2017-2022 Wayne also worked as a prop builder for PRG Technologies, New Windsor, NY. Additional teaching and related experience include R&F Handmade Paints, Kingston, NY. Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA. The Printmaking Center at the College of Santa Fe, NM. Bard College, Annandale on the Hudson, NY. Studio Joy, Kansas City, MO. Mount Everett Regional school, Scheffield, MA. The Draw, Kingston, NY, The Woodstock School of Art, and Studio E, San de Allende, Mexico.