Instructor: Karen Bright
Monday - Wednesday
June 2 - 4
10am - 4pm
3 sessions at Edgewood Farm

 Tap into the expressive power of three-dimensional space! This workshop is intended to reframe one’s content and visual perspective by tapping into aspects of movement, volume, and narrative using aluminum mesh, plaster, and encaustic. Work can be wall-mounted (five-sided) or self-standing (in the round).
No previous experience in sculpture needed. Intermediate to advanced artists using encaustic preferred.

 Working in the abstract, Bright’s painting and sculpture derive from an innate focus on the natural world and concern for the environment. The ancient method of encaustic – a fusing of beeswax and damar resin with pigment added for color – is harnessed through a process of heating and cooling the temperature. This aspect of materiality connected to each work’s intent serves not only as the control behind each work but as the driving force.  Exhibiting since 1981, Karen’s work has won numerous exhibition awards and project grants from a wide variety of organizations including: Urban Coast Institute, International Encaustic Artists, and
Monmouth University. Artist-in-residency appointments include: Weir Farm National Historic Site, Petrified Forest National Park, and Hot Springs National Park.  Karen Bright, Professor Emerita, recently retired from Monmouth University after a 39 year career in academia teaching all levels of graphic and interactive design, typography, and traditional printmaking. Previous academic appointments include: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Newark, New Jersey; Parsons School of Design, New York, New York. Professor Bright owns and operates Studio Bright in Newtown Square (Edgmont), Pennsylvania.Academic degrees include an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan and a BFA with honors, from the University of the Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.