BIO
Elise Wagner has been a working artist for thirty years and holds a B . S . degree in Painting from Portland State University . She is a 2015-16 recipient of The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant and has received numerous scholarships and awards as well as state and city funded grants that span her career . Her work is among private and corporate collections throughout the United States . Wagner exhibits her work at Butters Gallery in Portland where she curated the January 2015 group show The Spaces Between . Wagner also shows her work at Frederick Holmes & Company in Seattle . She will unveil Genesis , her newest body of work at Butters Gallery on May 5 , 2016 .
Wagner recently introduced Encaustic Collagraph Printmaking at the prestigious Southern Graphics Council International ( SGCI ): Flux Portland 2016 . She has taught Encaustic Collagraph nationally and internationally at Center for Contemporary Printmaking , Norwalk , CT , Printmaking Center of New Jersey , Women ’ s Studio Workshop , Rosendale NY , R & F Handmade Paints , Kingston , NY , Red Deer College , Alberta , Canada , Burning Bones Press , Houston , Metchosin Internaltional Summer School of the Arts , Victoria , BC and Truro Center of the Arts , Truro , MA . Wagner has also presented Encaustic Collagraph at the International Encaustic Conference in Provincetown , MA in 2013 and was a panelist in 2012 .
Wagner is based in the heart of Portland , Oregon . She lives and works at her home studio with her Goldendoodle Cleo and cat Ozlo .