Catherine Nash: Resources for Papermaking, Encaustic and Photography

Interview with artist Christel Dillbohner and...Still climbing to my higher financial goal

2011-11-29T05:48:00.001-08:00

Christel Dillbohner, The Black Pool, 2011

489 industrial filters made from pigment and wax, 5 encaustic painted panels.
photo courtesy of the Don Soker Gallery, San Francisco, CA

106%!! Fantastic! A major milestone...and due to your generosity! Thank you.

With just four days to go in my fundraiser, I am still striving towards 130% which would see me truly and fully funded and able to realize all 28 interviews.

By reaching 100%, I am ensured of receiving all pledges made thus far. That was my minimum goal. I am now striving to be fully funded to my higher level of 15K that will enable all 28 interviews to happen as well as be able to hire a book designer to oversee the technology needed to create the embedded videos and help layout the publication...

I am writing you from the home of Christel Dillbohner in Berkeley as I am on the first short leg of interviews that I could afford myself...Christel and I taped her interview yesterday. What an amazing opportunity to spend time with her (we'd never met before), collaborate on our interview shoot, learn of her deeply committed ideas and aesthetics and gain insight into her creative process!

I can see how enriching this whole adventurous project will be. The process of collaboration with each individual artist interviewee will enable the most inspiring of information to emerge.

A conversational approach within the taping turned out just to be a natural extension of our preparatory talk at the table as we planned a sequential approach. Christel and I found that we just got better and better with each take. The questions shifted slightly, the answers got deeper and more to the core of her artistic intentions. What a gift to experience!

Thank you for considering upping your pledge (you can choose artwork on my blogpost below at http://www.papermakingresources.blogspot.com/2011/11/donor-rewards-art-for-your-pledge-usa.html#more

With $2615 more in pledges, I will reach my higher financial goal of $15,240 and my project Contemporary Paper and Encaustic will be fully enabled.

If you can help in any way, I would be most grateful. Pass the word, contact someone you know who would be supportive, choose an artwork for yourself or a gift....Go to http://www.unitedstatesartists.org/project/contemporary_paper_and_encaustic_international_trends and support this

But the bottom line is that I appreciate all of you, my supporters, so very much. Once again, thank you!!

Catherine

Gratitude~ ....0 days to go!!

2011-11-25T05:06:00.001-08:00

I am so very grateful for the support that my colleagues have given me by donating art towards my fundraiser Contemporary Paper and Encaustic...touched at their generosity, giving of their creative work toward this very special project. I thank them, and I thank you for your tax deductible pledge on the USA Artists site. Go to that link to learn more about it and how to support my project.

You can view offered works in the blog post before this one as well...take a look, make a pledge, grace your walls with superb work and know that you are enabling me to undertake a huge year long effort...walking into the studios of 28 talented international artists across the United States to learn about their ideas and creative processes.

So much to discover and absorb. I'll give back by videotaping and editing my interviews, and sharing them in a unique publication entitled Contemporary Paper and Encaustic. But first I have to raise the funds so I can travel there! The work below is offered by one of the 28 artists I hope to interview: talented Mona Waterhouse of Peachtree City, GA and Sweden:

Mona Waterhouse of Peachtree City, GA and Sweden

Flow I: size 7"x 5", Medium: Ink jet print on handmade paper, colored pencil and encaustic, mounted on board

Yours for a pledge of $200

Choose an artwork. (Find them in my previous blog post which I keep updated with all art available.) Make a pledge and then contact me (thru the USA Artists site once your pledge has been processed) with the artist/title of the work you've chosen as a donor perk.

I've grouped these 28 artists into 4 trips...all of which will be completed by April of 2012.
I'll interview 9 artists in the first one, which will be accomplished before the end of this year:
# 1 trip Oakland > San Francisco > Santa Cruz > Redding > Seattle > Taos > Santa Fe

So exciting! Please consider supporting my project! You'll also support the 28 interviewees, master artists who will be included with their inspiring work in the "portfolio" section of Contemporary Paper and Encaustic.

Mona Waterhouse, Pod VI - Cradle

Wire, paper, dye, medium and wax. 6 1/2" x 16" x 5"

Yours for a pledge of $550

Thank you so much~ I am so grateful for your support!

12//11 It's a countdown!! 0 days left! Thanks so much for helping support USA Project Contemporary Paper and Encaustic

2011-11-09T08:28:00.000-08:00

I am so honored to have been selected by USA Artists

to promote a very special research project

entitled Contemporary Paper and Encaustic

I am seeking funding

to help me travel across the U.S. to conduct studio visits with 28 international visual artists: one-on-one taped interviews with inspiring and dynamic artists that will be incorporated into the portfolio section of my e-book Contemporary Paper & Encaustic.

Contemporary Paper & Encaustic bridges the media worlds of artist books, paper and encaustic by presenting the work and processes of a full range of innovative artists from around the world in an
e-publication, a brand new type of teaching tool formatted for use on the computer.

You can select art as a donor reward!

Some very talented artists have gotten behind my project

and are offering you a piece of their art if you donate to my project!

Pledge on the USA site with the correct amount (or more),

then email me via the USA site to alert me to your chosen artwork.

See below what incredible work of art could be yours!

(If it is marked CLAIMED, then it is no longer up for grabs...

if two donors bid for the same work, the earlier of the 2 bids will receive the work)

Thanks so much to all the generous artists~

End of a Day © Catherine Nash
Encaustic on wood. 18 X 29 in.

Pledge of $1350 and its yours!

Bend © Catherine Nash

CLAIMED

Encaustic painting on wood 21 1/2” X 29"

Pledge of $1350 and its yours!

I exist © Beata Wehr of Tucson Arizona and Warsaw, Poland

single signature sewn artist book, printed with archival inkjet on paper. 8"x6" (21x14.5 cm)

1 available from an edition of 50

Pledge of $105 and its yours~

På väg (On one's way) ©Margareta Mannervik of Hönö, Sweden

Wax batik on cut artist made paper, collaged and attached to a white wooden board.

10.25"h X 8.75"w X .5"d board included. (26cm h X 20cm w X 1cm d)

Pledge of $175 and its yours!

Cycles - ©Pál Csaba of Budapest, Hungary

dry point, wax, and oil, on paper, ~4 x 4 in, (10x10cm)

pledge of $75 and it's yours!

Flow I - ©Mona Waterhouse of Peachtree City, GA and Sweden (above)

Ink jet print on handmade paper, colored pencil and encaustic, mounted on board. size 7"x 5"

Pledge of $200 and it is yours!

Flow III - ©Mona Waterhouse of Peachtree City, GA and Sweden (above)

Ink jet print on handmade paper, colored pencil and encaustic, mounted on board. size 7"x 5"

Pledge of $200 and it is yours!

Pod VI - Cradle - ©Mona Waterhouse of Peachtree City, GA and Sweden

Wire, paper, dye, medium and wax. 6 1/2" x 16" x 5"

Pledge of $550 and it is yours!

Scattered VII - ©Paula Roland (above)