17th International Encaustic Conference

Cherie Mittenthal has her MFA from Purchase College of the State University of New York and her BFA from the Hartford Art School at the University of Hartford. She is the Executive Artistic Director of Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill since 2002. She serves on the board of... Read More →

In her almost five-decade career, Joanne Mattera has had 35 solo shows and participated in about 10 group shows annually, both national and international. Her most recent solo, From Dawn to Dusk, took place at Odetta Gallery in Manhattan in late 2019. Joanne’s curatorial projects... Read More →

Darin Seim is the president and co-owner of R&F Handmade Paints in Kingston, New York. He studied painting and philosophy at the State University of New York at New Paltz. In 1996, he took a job making paint for R&F founder Richard Frumess. After a few years away from the company... Read More →

Marla Rice was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. After attending SUNY New Paltz, she moved to Wellfleet (actually, she went to Wellfleet for a weekend and never left). Besides working at nearly every restaurant in town, she spent most of her waking hours teaching herself and... Read More →