Jodi Reeb
About Jodi
Reeb received a BFA degree in Fine Arts from the Minneapolis College of Art & Design, MCAD, where she instructed printmaking for over 9 years.
Jodi has been a full-time working artist creating paintings and sculpture and a teacher in Minneapolis for over 28 years. She has exhibited throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, Switzerland, Netherlands and Ireland. She has received support for her work through the Minnesota State Arts Grants in 2021 and 2018. Reeb has been awarded numerous artist residencies including Hinge Arts, MN, North Dakota Museum of Arts, and Vermont Art Center. Her work is in many residential and corporate collections including Google Headquarters, NY, United HealthCare Group Headquarters, DC, Dain and Rauscher, PA, and Target Corporation in MN.
She is a CORE teaching artist for R&F Handmade Paints, an arts Ambassador for Ampersand Art panels, and a teaching artist for Silverbrush, Ltd.
She has taught printmaking, acrylic and encaustic painting as well as book arts classes/workshops at colleges and art centers regionally and internationally. She has taught encaustic workshops at the Essence of Mulranny in Ireland, Zijidelings in Netherlands, Kunstfreiraum in Basel, Switzerland, and San Miguel De Allende. Nationally, she has taught workshops at Arrowmont School of Craft, Penland School of Art, Tubac Center for the Arts, Wild Rice Retreat in WI, and Haystack School of Art as well as San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. She has been an online video instructor with Painting with Fire for 4 years and has taught workshops at the International Encaustic Conference in Provincetown, Massachusets for the past 7 years. She teaches monthly painting workshops in her NE Minneapolis studio and offers art study coaching to artists for professional development.
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Class Details
Finding Your Contemporary Style and Color with Encaustic
You will explore working with encaustic paint with an emphasis on color and your unique expression. We will work with a warm and a cool palette focusing on color relationships and color mixing. There will be something for everyone! I will discuss ideas to paint contemporary paintings from reference photos working in a series to create a new body of work. Through this process, you will discover your own preferred subject matter. We will cover translucent and opaque color to refine your own vision of expression. I will give you prompts as support for you to connect with your work so that are expressing yourself through your art.
Gel Monotypes as Collage in Wax
Create translucent monotype prints using oil on Gelli plates as collage for mixed-media paintings. You will learn to transform these prints into layered paintings using R&F oil pigment sticks as “ink”. We will cover design elements which will help you develop your unique style. Further reveal and define your voice through transparent layers. We will focus on content and how to approach printmaking with an intuitive perspective. We will also talk about finishing a painting and feeling complete with it using the “Five Minutes to Finish” approach I use with my own work.
