2025
Global Warming is REAL
Juried Encaustic/Wax Exhibition
The exhibition opens at the Museum of Encaustic Art on September 13
with an opening reception on Sept 13
from noon – 3 pm
Exhibit runs through November 2
View the exhibit online:
To see the work juried into the exhibition or to make a purchase:
Click on the artist name under the thumbnail images below. The links connect to a large image on each artist’s page with more details, purchase options, and the artist’s statement on how their work relates to the theme of the climate crisis.
Information: Mehrens@eainm.com or 505-424-6487
See photos from the opening reception and view brief video walkthrough of exhibit here.
JUROR BIO
Tami Phelps
Anchorage, Alaska
Tami Phelps primarily creates cold wax medium art, often with assemblage, with an earlier focus on her hand-tinted black and white photographs. She is influenced by the holistic Air-Land-Water teaching pedagogy of Dr. Maria Montessori. Tami taught kindergarten for twenty years at Denali Montessori Elementary School of the Anchorage Public School District in Alaska before retiring in 2009 to devote herself full-time to art. Lately her work reflects aspects of Surrealism as she contemplates current human events related to the environment, and art about the treatment of women. Her work has received national awards, has been exhibited in U.S. from the east to west coasts. Her art was juried into the London Art Biennale 2023. It was also juried into the International Exposition of Contemporary Art 2024, SIM Fly Fishing Festival, Castel di Sangro (Italy), where she was invited to demonstrate her cold wax painting. Her work is in is in their permanent museum collection. Her art is also included in the permanent collections of the Anchorage Museum of History and Art (Alaska), and the Museum of Encaustic Art (New Mexico). Tami’s art was selected by the U.S. Global Change Research Program in 2023 as the chapter heading about Alaska in their National Climate Assessment Report and is one of ten paintings selected for postcard distribution for their report. Tami has published two books and has her art published on several book covers. She was the 2025 juror for an international encaustic/cold wax exhibit at the Museum of Encaustic Art in Cerrillos, New Mexico. Additional information is available on her website, https://www.tamiphelps.com.