Sense of Place: A Photo–Encaustic Workshop

Capture the unique architecture of Mineral Point, and Shake Rag Alley’s gardens, and explore the dialogue between photography and wax. This workshop gives you time and space to capture the visually interesting—to use the landscape as both subject and material. We will transform images through the luminous depth of encaustic. Photograph aged wood, historic buildings, and natural light, learning to see how surface and shadow tell a story. Back in the studio, those images become the foundation for layered encaustic works where translucency, color, and mark-making merge. Using image transfer, transparent glazes, and mixed-media embedding, build pieces that evoke the clarity of the photograph and the softness of memory—where image, wax, and light reveal the subtle intersections of observation and transformation.

Class size 12

Level Beginner and above

Instructor: Sarah Rehmer

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