Pressed & Folded: A Botanical & Encaustic Concertina Book

Name: Pressed & Folded: A Botanical & Encaustic Concertina Book
Start: 2025-09-06T10:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-09-06T13:00:00-04:00
Location: 40 Cannon Street, Poughkeepsie, NY, United States, New York 12601

Schedule

Sat Sep 06 2025 at 10:00 am to 01:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

40 Cannon Street, Poughkeepsie, NY, United States, New York 12601 | Poughkeepsie, NY

In this immersive 3-hour live workshop, you’ll create a one-of-a-kind concertina (accordion) book using encaustic techniques, botanicals, and mixed media. We’ll explore cyanotype printing, botanical collage, and encaustic plant reliefs while experimenting with materials that pair beautifully with wax. Inspired by nature and guided by process, this workshop is perfect for artists, creatives, and nature-lovers alike—no prior experience needed.
All materials and pressed flowers will be provided. Please feel free to bring your own if you have any favorites you want to use.
Minimum students 4- Max 8
Cost: $95 ($80 Class fee + $15 Material Fee)
With Alaina Enslen
Alaina Enslen holds a BFA from the University of Montevallo. She currently resides in the Hudson Valley, New York, and has been painting and teaching for over twenty years. Enslen has exhibited at Caleidoscópio at the University of Lisbon, the University of Coimbra, the Folio International Literary Festival, the Susquehanna Art Museum (PA), and the Woodstock Artists Association & Museum (NY), among others. She is a recipient of grants from the International Encaustic Artists and the Luso-American Development Foundation. Her work has been described as “part artifact, part event, [as] she emancipates a fixed past with a limitless present” (Art Spiel). Her work has been published by the Paul W. Bryant Museum and in Chiricu journal (Indiana University Press).
Enslen is a Certified Instructor for R&F Handmade Paints and a Freelance Educator at the Garrison Art Center and Storm King Art Center in New York. She has taught encaustic workshop and given presentations in the U.S., Portugal, and Brazil. Enslen is represented by Carrie Haddad Gallery in Hudson, New York.