Caryl St Ama
Caryl St Ama
Caryl St. Ama is a contemporary artist and educator who lives and works in Los Angeles, California.
Caryl’s expertise focuses on abstract and representational painting in diverse media, with special attention to encaustic. Caryl also has a long career in arts education. She was Professor of Studio Art at Glendale Community College for 27 years, where she was department chair and director of the art gallery. She recently retired, but continues to collaborate with R & F Handmade Paints since 2013, offering encaustic workshops and pigment stick demonstrations to working artists throughout Southern California.
Caryl is a founding member of the artist collective, Hana Kark, which produces complex visual projects through collaborative art making. Hana Kark, under Caryl’s co-direction, completed a residency and exhibition at The Art Gallery of GCC in Summer 2019, which travelled to Collapse Gallery, Wenatchee, Washington and Bunny Gunner in Claremont, California in Fall 2019. Caryl is also a founding member of the International Encaustic Artist Los Angeles chapter, Lax Wax Art.
Caryl earned her MFA from Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California where she was awarded a teaching associateship with Roland Reiss. Following graduate school, Caryl worked on several public, collaborative and individual installations in non-traditional spaces such as the Lincoln Heights jail, the abandoned LA Zoo and the LA River.
You can view Caryl’s work at:
Get in touch with her at stamacaryl@gmail.com
Class Details
The Painterly Print: No Press Needed!
In this workshop, we will be using store bought and/or hand-made gelatin plates to create monotypes and prints with a variety of materials and papers. This is a very painterly process and no two prints will be the same even if you use the same materials to create them.
Using R&F Pigment Sticks© as ink, we will explore how to incorporate prints into your current art practice. Work generated from this workshop can be a unique print (monotype) that stands alone or a series of prints (monoprint) in which an element remains constant and repeats throughout the series.
I will also demonstrate how to make a gelatin plate. You can make them in many sizes and shapes. If you already have a gelatin plate, you can melt it down and create a new one.
I love this process for generating new ideas, color compositions, textures, personal iconography, etc. I use these prints as a means to an end and will mat and frame them or collage onto an already existent encaustic piece or print directly onto an encaustic piece. Join me!