Catherine has been Invited to lecture about Contemporary Paper and Encaustic, and teach 2 workshops:

Finding Your Authentic Visual Voice Wed & Thurs May 29 & 30th
and
Combining Two Ancient Media: Paper and Encaustic, Friday June 7th.

For more information: http://www.castlehill.org/post-conference.html Do a page search for Nash to find the two workshops. To register : call the office of the Truro Center for the Arts at 508-349-7511 You do not need to go to the conference to take the workshops!

Stain, paint, stamp, embed, layer, stitch, crumple, fold, form and dip:  Combine encaustic and paper to create unique waxed based paintings, collage, assemblage and mixed media sculptural works.  Learn how encaustic techniques offer a range of two and three dimensional possibilities.

Participants will draw and paint encaustic on papers, use encaustic to dip for translucency or encase an object, learn to use wax as an adhesive and layer it for visual depth, transfer photocopy imagery and much more.  Use a wide variety of purchased papers including recycled paper elements, old book pages, photographs, vintage letters and envelopes, magazine imagery, and small 3D objects...

We will also explore the sculptural potential of integrating paper and encaustic: design folded, cut, or embossed sheets for a springboard to creating three dimensional unique constructions.  We will learning how to carefully glue Japanese mulberry paper to lashed wooden armatures and make them as tight as a drum.  Encaustic can be used to lightly stain and strengthen the structure or it can completely envelop and encase the paper.  Learn how to fuse onto both convex and concave surfaces as we create structures that range in form from the organic to architectural.  Complete a series of small studio constructions that will inspire and ignite diverse sculptural ideas.

Create translucent images utilizing innovative and new techniques of encaustic monoprinting.  Melted pigmented waxes on a hot plate can be transferred to a variety of papers both Western and Japanese to build "washes" and visual textures.  Layer color to achieve rich nuances of tone and depth.  We will investigate how the variables of heat, paint, paper and pressure can affect your results, keeping a notebook with samples of our conclusions as a reference for the future.

Enhance your prints by experimenting with the use of stencils and masks, subtractive and additive markmaking techniques as well as the ability to enrich the surface with mixed media drawing, wax collage and encaustic painting.  Create textural surfaces, how to produce wax batiks on paper as well as a number of ways to register prints for multiple passes to build the image, and learn how to attach your prints to wooden panels or varied methods to present them free floating.

This is a workshop that offers the opportunity for artists of all levels to gain competence and control in one of the hottest new media. Encaustic is an ancient painting technique dating as far back as the 5th century B.C., but wax monoprinting on paper is brand new! Bring images of your work and Catherine will give you focused one on one time to discover how to dovetail encaustic into your artistic vision to build your body of work. 

Encaustic monoprinting is incredibly fun and creatively satisfying: If you are like her, you'll love that it offers you the chance to work through a lot of ideas quickly with results that offer richness and spontaneity.

This beginner-friendly workshop will give students a solid understanding of their digital cameras along with eight easy steps for processing photographs using Adobe Photoshop, plus fun hands-on experience taking photographs in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The participants will "make friends" with their digital cameras, finding out what all of those dials, buttons and menus are for. Understandable explanations of f/stops, shutter speeds, light metering, lenses, resolution, file formats and more will be covered. Students will have the opportunity to photograph on location, with the instructor providing on-the-spot feedback and help.

After fieldwork, the class will go into the "digital darkroom" of Photoshop in order to improve and process photos. Jumpstart your creativity as you are guided in crafting a coherent body of photographs. No adult left behind! Students will need to bring a camera, manual, batteries, charger, cables, media cards and a tripod. Also, a laptop computer with Adobe Photoshop Elements or Photoshop CS already installed. For those without a laptop, notes and handouts can be taken home to use with a desktop computer. Proof prints will be processed at the Walgreens kiosk nearby.

For more information and to register:
http://www.arrowmont.org/workshops-and-classes/workshops/details/350-digital-photography?xref=352