Encaustic Arts Magazine Winter 2012 | Page 29

What’s on the horizon for me? I have ideas for works on paper; I need free time to experiment and play with that. I’ve started a blog featuring interviews of prominent women in art and architecture, and I’m enjoying this as an addendum to my art making. Meeting these women is an inspiration. As for marketing, I let the galleries do their promoting: it’s their job. Even in this digital age I religiously send out a postcard. Some people show up at the exhibition card in hand. It’s something physical and just one more personal poke. A curator at MCA said she gets my postcards and puts them in her Waterloo file. She doesn’t do anything with digital announcements. I have a website; I’m on Facebook and Twitter specifically to promote my blog. I feel artists should do community giving: sit on boards, donate, and conduct workshops, demos, studio tours—it’s marketing but I do it because I want to. When people experience my work, I want the color to talk to them. I want them to feel excited, to look beneath the surface and see the mark making and have some sort of psychological revelation. I put it in the viewers’ court to ponder, to ask their own questions. Interview and article by artist, Julia Ris. juliaris.com Quiddity I, 2011, Encaustic on panel, 12” x 12”. Kathleen Waterloo 29 Portfolio Kathleen Waterloo [email protected] www.kathleenwaterloo.com www.kwaterlooart.com 312-919-1789 www.EAINM.com Cataclysm, 2011, Encaustic on panel, 24” x 24”. Winter