Artist Talk - Dan and B Williams

Encaustic Art

Please Join Us - FREE

On  Wednesday, September 16, 2026, at 6:00 pm in the Louis Latzer Memorial Library, Highland Arts Council will sponsor an Artist Talk featuring Dan and B Williams

Dan and B Williams will be showcasing a series of encaustic pieces at the Highland Library throughout the months of September and October 2026. Having fallen in love with the medium while living in Alaska, B has been working with encaustics for two decades, adding the medium to her work with photography, drawings, oils, charcoal and watercolors. Dan has a lifelong love for photography and is both a historian and museum curator in the region. Many of the pieces shown will showcase a blend of Dan and B’s photography with encaustic medium, oils and cyanotypes. Encaustic means to burn in. It consists of hot, melted beeswax, resin and pure pigment. This art form began as early as the 5th Century BC for caulking and decorating the hulls of Trojan ships. While it fell out of use and favor with the invention and ease of oil paints, encaustics has been making a strong reemergence in the art world due to its unique ethereal and textural quality.

Come hear how Dan and B express themselves through encaustic art. Along with good art talk, question and answer session and refreshments you can't go wrong. No registration necessary.