WORKSHOP AT KOLAJ FEST NEW ORLEANS 2025
Encaustic Collage
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Kolaj Fest New Orleans is a multi-day festival and symposium about contemporary collage and its role in art, culture, and society, 25-29 June 2025. Visit the website to learn more, see an overview of the program, and register to attend.
Participants in this popular & recurring Kolaj Fest New Orleans workshop will learn how to use encaustic medium (encaustic without pigment) as an adhesive and a transfer medium. After sharing the history of encaustic, Beth Guipe Hall will demonstrate how to apply the medium, embed paper into the wax surface, fuse the surface with each application of medium, and three different transfer techniques. Working on 12×12 Masonite panels, participants will make an encaustic collage they can take home with them.
PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED: Space is limited. RSVP required. The material cost of this workshop is $20 for registered participants of Kolaj Fest New Orleans or $30 for the general public. To sign-up, send an email or speak to someone at the Kolaj Fest New Orleans Information Desk. First come, first serve and we will create a waiting list if all the spaces are filled.
Workshops at Kolaj Fest New Orleans
Workshops at Kolaj Fest New Orleans offer participants the opportunity to engage with their process or materials in a new way; explore subjects or themes; or practice a new collage technique to make. Over a dozen workshops take place during the festival.
ABOUT THE PRESENTER
Continuing a lifelong interest in collage, artist and educator Beth Guipe Hall has been experimenting with encaustic since 2004 to create 2D art in three dimensions. Her work has been shown at galleries and events from New York to Miami to Hong Kong. She holds an MA in Ceramics from the University of Indianapolis and maintains a studio at the Harrison Center in Indianapolis. Learn more at the Kolaj Magazine Artist Directory. She previously presented this workshop at Kolaj LIVE Knoxville and Kolaj Fest New Orleans 2022.
Kolaj Fest New Orleans is a multi-day festival and symposium about contemporary collage and its role in art, culture, and society, 25-29 June 2025. Visit the website to learn more, see an overview of the program, and register to attend.