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Slate Gray June: "Waxing Rhapsodic," featuring Judy Kohin, Shawna Moore & Amy Van Winkle (through July 2)!

"Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty." -John Ruskin

Some like it hot. Take for example the iconic artist Jasper Johns.

In the 1950s and 1960s, Johns became one of the first creatives who chose to use encaustic or hot wax to make art that entered - in his case, dominated - the mainstream with his world-famous Flag series. But Johns was not the first to leverage the magic of the medium. For that we have to go back to the ancient …