Artist lecture and workshops with artist Leslie Walker Noell , January 2012

Leslie Walker Noell is an interdisciplinary studio artist, graphic designer, and the Penland Core Fellowship program coordinator. Her background includes a design degree from North Carolina State University, two years of study as a Core Fellowship Student at Penland School of Crafts, and an MFA from the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth. In 2001, Leslie was a resident artist at Caversham Press in Kazulu Natal, South Africa. In 2006, she was a resident artist at the Jentel Artist Residency Program in Banner, Wyoming. Leslie’s work has been shown throughout the country in a number of exhibitions, including the Holter Museum of Art, Asheville Art Museum, and Mobile Museum of Art. She lives and works in Asheville, NC.

On January 24, Leslie presented a slide talk about her work and career for high school visual arts students at the UNC School of the Arts.

Workshops with Leslie Noell

On January 25, Leslie gave two workshops in encaustic painting and collage for those students. An ancient technique historically associated with Greco-Roman and Egyptian tomb portraiture, encaustic or hot-wax painting has enjoyed a great revival in popularity in the last half-century. A mixture of beeswax, resin, and pigments is melted and applied to wooden panels with a brush; it can be used for painting like oils or acrylics, or can be smoothed and polished after it hardens to create translucent layers between collage materials.

More photographs of Leslie Noell's visit to UNCSA.