Art Happy Hour
New Britain Museum of American Art
Apr. 12, 2012, 05:30 pm
56 Lexington Street
New Britain, Connecticut 6052
860-229-0257
www.nbmaa.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=82&Itemid=121
Complimentary light refreshments will be served from 5:30-6 p.m. followed by a program from 6-7 p.m. Free with general admission. Encaustic Painting Demonstration with Leslie Giuliani Encaustic painting, also known as hot wax painting, involves using heated beeswax to which colored pigments are added. Leslie Giuliani, a teaching artist at the Center for Contemporary Printmaking in Norwalk, CT and a nationally exhibiting artist, will demonstrate this richly historical and elaborate artistic process.