Wayne Montecalvo

"I’ve been teaching as an art instructor for a long time, but now I focus on teaching workshops rather than teaching in academic settings. I just like it better. My art making practice these days centers around mixed media, combining painting, photography, collage, printmaking, digital imagery, encaustic paint, acrylic paint, India ink, powdered charcoal, and a lot of other materials to name a few. My approach for working with digital imagery is to push the process to create a unique, one of a kind object. I often embrace mistake making, random marks, and the uncontrollable as part of the process."

• The Awagami Artist-in-Residence Program at Awagami Paper Factory, Tokushima, Japan
• NYFA MARK, ’09 New York Foundation for the Arts
• Two Full Fellowship Awards for residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
• Two Residencies at the Frans Masereel Centrum voor Grafiek, Kasterlee, Belgium
• John Michael Kohler foundation Arts/Industry Artist in Residence, Sheboygan, WI
• Women’s Studio Workshop Artists Fellowship, Rosendale, NY
• Artists At Work: New York State Council on the Arts
• Residency at Cill Rialaig, Ballinskelligs, CO Kerry, Ireland