Flint Cultural Center Academy Encaustic Workshop (2026)
The Flint Cultural Center Academy Workshop was a collaborative project of the Community Design Studio class and FCCA’s Art Student group. The youth group contains about 20 students, aged about 16 to 18. The project aimed to positively impact a part of the Flint community by teaching young art students the historical method of encaustic painting. This method uses melted wax and places it onto a canvas like paint. Unlike painting, as the wax cools, you can use a pointed tool and etch out a design through the wax.
Practicing Encaustic
Below are images of us testing the wax method ourselves for the first time, which was a fun and unique experience. Then, when the students meet our class for the workshop day, we have the experience to help the young students encaustic-ing their own canvases with wax and etching. The third image below on the right is prior students’ examples, while the pictures on the far right are this year’s current works, including mine.
Encaustic Workshop Day
On (insert this day), the students of Flint Cultural Center Academy (FCCA) joined us at the Northbank Center 11th Floor Studio to create their own encaustic artworks.