Wayne Montecalvo
Wayne Montecalvo
Wayne Montecalvo received a BFA from the School of visual Arts in NYC. From 1998-2013 he 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 2014-2016, worked as a freelance artist from his own studio. From 2017-2022 Wayne worked as a prop builder for PRG Technologies, New Windsor, NY. Since the slow down of Broadway productions as a result of the Covid pandemic, he has spent more time teaching workshops on line from his own studio, while seeking other freelance options including teaching in other locations.
Additional related experience and teaching gigs 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. Truro Center for the Arts at Castle hill, Cape Cod, MA. Studio Joy, Kansas City, MO. Mount Everett Regional school, Scheffield, MA. The Draw, Kingston, NY. Studio E, San de Allende, Mexico. Voice Theater (NYC), Old Dutch Church, Kingston., NY., Blackbird Theater, Rosendale, NY.
Wayne’s awards and honors include the Awagami Artist-in-Residence Program at Awagami Paper Factory in Tokushima, Japan; NYFA MARK ’09; Two Full Fellowship Awards for residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT; Two Residencies at the Frans Masereel Zentrum voor Grafiek, Kasterlee, Belgium; John Michael Kohler Foundation Arts/Industry Artist-in-Residence, Sheboygan, WI; Women’s Studio Workshop Artists’ Fellowship, Rosendale, NY., Residency at The Cill Rialaig Project, Ballinskelligs, Killarney, Co. Kerry, Ireland, and an Artists At Work: New York State Council on the Arts.
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“Wax and Mixed Media” Parts One and Two
PWF is a great program for learning ways to paint with encaustic. However, there are many ways to include other types of medium with encaustic. This set of videos will demonstrate working with digital images on specific fine art papers, and incorporating those images with a variety of surfaces and materials while still using encaustic paint.
Working in layers that are created outside of the piece can be a way to organize a composition before committing it to the surface of the artwork, allowing for more control and room for decision making as well as more options to change, subtract, add, and eliminate.
Combining images, drawings, handmade marks, ink splatters, acrylic paint, pattern making, stains, prints, stamps, on top and underneath the surface will be shown. The two part videos will also show ways to use insulation foam, Foamcoat™, chipboard, encaustic paint on glass using shellac, as well as the way I like to build a panel.
