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Dietlind Vander SchaafEncaustic, Mindfulness & The Natural World: An Artist Retreat
July 28 - August 2, 2024 Go back
In this special five-day retreat at the lovely Wild Rice Retreat center in Bayfield, Wisconsin, students will focus on their connection to the natural world through practices that cultivate a deeper sense of mindfulness. The purpose of this workshop is to leave participants feeling deeply relaxed and renewed.
Check In: July 28, 2024
Check Out: August 2, 2024
Tuition + Meals: $1,250
With TreeHaus Twin Lodging Package: $2,495
With TreeHaus Queen Lodging Package: $2,595
With RicePod Twin Lodging Package: $2,845
With RicePod Queen Lodging Package: $2,945
With Nest Lodging Package: $3,245
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Class description
In this special five-day retreat at the lovely Wild Rice Retreat center in Bayfield, Wisconsin, students will focus on their connection to the natural world through practices that cultivate a deeper sense of mindfulness. The purpose of this workshop is to leave participants feeling deeply relaxed and renewed.
Activities will include yoga, writing exercises, a boat ride to the Apostle Islands, meditative walks in nature, drawing exercises, and painting. We will take inspiration from the natural world - incorporating dried plant material, using fresh leaves as stencils, transferring drawings, and interpreting the landscape abstractly with encaustic paint. Each student will have 1:1 time with the instructor.
Materials used will include encaustic paint and medium, Pigment Sticks, Blending Medium, Pan Pastel, charcoal, graphite, oil pastel, Deco Foil, and India ink. Begin your day with a light breakfast, practice yoga, enjoy brunch, take walks in nature, paint for hours, and then slip into the sauna. Retreat is open to all levels.
THREE THINGS RETREAT GUESTS WILL WALK AWAY WITH UPON RETREAT COMPLETION:
- Deeper understanding of control with fusing and application of paint to create luminous, layered work.
- An exploration of what their work is about and will take home multiple completed paintings.
- A renewed sense of inspiration for series-based work.
Dietlind Vander Schaaf: Artist Interview with Portland Art Gallery
biography
Dietlind Vander Schaaf holds an MFA from the University of San Francisco and an MA from the University of Southern Maine. Her work has been described as “the transformation of disparate objects into elegantly simple compositions of pattern and grace” (Artscope). Vander Schaaf has exhibited at the Cape Cod Museum of Art, Conrad Wilde Gallery, The Fuller Craft Museum, and On Center Gallery, among others, and been featured in Maine Home + Design, Decor Maine, UPPERCASE, and Downeast magazines.
Vander Schaaf is a Core Instructor for R&F Handmade Paints, an Ampersand Ambassador, and the former president of New England Wax. An annual presenter at the International Encaustic Conference, she has taught workshops throughout the country, including Haystack, Arrowmont, Castle Hill, Snow Farm, Penland, Maine College of Art, R&F, and internationally at Zijdelings in The Netherlands. The recipient of grants from the Maine Arts Commission and International Encaustic Artists, as well as a Tending Space Artist Fellowship from the Hemera Foundation, she is represented by Portland Art Gallery. Vander Schaaf is also a 500 hr Kripalu yoga instructor with specialty training in meditation, advanced asana, Ayurveda, vinyasa, and pranayama.
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Supply List
Please note, Retreat tuition includes a $50 supply fee for students + $49.95 ticket for Apostle Islands Grand Tour Cruise.
Students should bring the following items.
- A variety of natural bristle brushes including several hake brushes - At least one of the hake brushes should be a 4” brush
- A potter’s needle for mark making
- A loop tool for trimming
- A roll of blue painter’s tape
- Assorted unprimed wood panels or Ampersand Encausticbord panels (nothing larger than 14” x 14”)
- A notebook and pen for writing exercises
- A variety of drawing materials including graphite, charcoal, oil pastel, pencil, fine-tipped pens, etc
- A pad of paper for mark making and drawing exercises
- A roll of wax paper
- An apron
- Students are encouraged to bring pressed and dried plant material for incorporating into encaustic
Instructor will provide the following items.
- R&F encaustic paint, R&F Pigment Sticks, R&F Blending Medium, and R&F encaustic gesso
- One Ampersand Encausticbord panel per student and some for me to demo on
- 8 - 10 Iwatani Butane Torch tips for student use
- 10 cans of butane gas
- Assorted drawing materials (charcoal, graphite, craypas, etc.)
- Tracing paper for transferring drawings
- Deco Foil for mark making exercises
- India ink and brushes for drawing
Wild Rice will provide the following items.
- 6 16” x 16” heated palettes for students to share
- 3 R&F heat guns
- 25 palette cups for melting paint and encaustic medium
- 4 dedicated workstations (tables, chairs, etc.)
- Fans for ventilation
- Extension cords for each workstation
