Coming September 13: 2025 Global Warming is REAL National Juried Exhibition
The exhibition at the Museum of Encaustic Art opens on September 13 and will run until November 2. Additionally, the exhibit will be available to view online, allowing those who cannot visit New Mexico to see and, if they wish, purchase artwork from the exhibition. Link to view the exhibit online will be posted to the website under the “Exhibits” tab on September 13.
There will be an opening reception at the Museum on Saturday, September 13 from noon – 3 pm.
Artists juried into the exhibition:
CATHERINE ALTICE
LYNNE BECKER
LAURI BORER
KAREN BUTTWINICK
RHONDA CAMPBELL
DENNIS CICCOLI
ANN CORBETT
VICKIE DENEROFF
JANN DIERINGER
SARAH ECKERSLEY
ELIZABETH FERGUS-JEAN
BEV GOLDIE
CARRIE GREER
NANCY HACSKAYLO
PJ HILLER
JEAN KRIEGER
JOHANNE LAMARCHE
ELAINE LEWIS
LINDA LOWERY
KAREN MALECK-WHITELEY
CAROL MELL
MISAKO OBA
DEANNE PALMER
MERSHONA PARSHALL
CHERIE PETERS
CHERILYN PETERSON
ROSE MARIE PRINS
REGINA QUINN
LORI ROUNDS
HEIDI RUFEH
SUSAN SARVER
KAYE SAVAGE
JEANNE SCHNEIDER
LINDA SIROW
JANE CORNISH SMITH
JOAN STOLPEN
BARBARA TABACHNICK
PATRICE TRAUTH
KARI WESTPHAL
PAM WHITE
JUROR – TAMI PHELPS
Tami Phelps is an Alaskan cold wax artist who believes artists have the opportunity, and quite possibly the responsibility, to take action through art with stories, knowledge, and passion about the crisis of global warming on our planet.
Growing up, she lived in diverse environments, including the plains of Nebraska, Black Hills of South Dakota, mountains of Colorado, deserts of Arizona, tropics of Hawaii, and the Alaska subarctic. It has become surreal to revisit these locations and experience their dramatic changes in her lifetime.
Most of Tami’s cold wax paintings are based on concepts and storytelling. They are often inspired by the surrealism of Salvador Dali’s art. Tami is also influenced by Dr. Maria Montessori’s cultural curriculum of the hands-on studies of air, land, and water, and her teachings of respect for self, others, and the environment. Sixteen years ago, Tami retired from a 20-year teaching career in a public Montessori school in Anchorage, Alaska, and is now a full-time artist.
“I dreamt of painting with light bulbs in a ‘kiddy pool’ as if they were sidewalk chalk sticks. My water-top painting dream haunted me, inspiring reflection on my waking concerns about our planet’s confrontation with the surreal nightmare of climate change that will not wake up on its own.”
— Tami Phelps
When Terra Melts at Midnight, cold wax painting shown in the Dreamscapes 2025 Exhibit, Tubac Center of the Arts ©Tami Phelps