The Encaustic Art Institute is proud to announce that we currently have 250+ members throughout the US, Canada, Australia, and a few European countries. Our website, blog site, Facebook and Instagram pages continue to grow and flourish.  If you are not currently a member, we would encourage you to explore our website, blog, and social media pages to learn more — then click on the Become a Member/Renewal page .

If you are interested in encaustic, but not an artist yourself you can still support the movement by becoming a supporting member of the Encaustic Art Institute. For more information about that, click on the Support Us page under the ABOUT tab of our website.

Your membership benefits include receipt of e-mails alerting members to exhibition opportunities; participation in juried and all-member exhibitions; two images of your work showcased in the online EAI Member Gallery for view and sale, listing on the Institute’s blog, and a link to your own artist website; and priceless opportunities to network with other wax artists living and working throughout the world.

Please add the following email addresses: mehrens@eainm.com  membership.eai@gmail.com  eainm.info@gmail.com and michaelbillieart@gmail.com to your Contacts/whitelist of your email program so that you will receive email from us.

If at any time through the year you notice that you have not been receiving emails from EAI, please contact our Membership Coordinator Adrienne Mehrens: membership.eai@gmail.com  as soon as possible so that we can correct the problem. We use Constant Contact as our mailing program.  Within a few days of submitting your membership form, you will receive a welcome email and any current or upcoming calls for art. If you do not receive your welcome email, please contact Adrienne (or 505-424-6487) as soon as possible. You may unsubscribe from our mailings at any time, but if you decide to unsubscribe from our mailings, please check our blog, website, social media sites often so that you will be aware of any events, calls for art, or other information that you would miss if you unsubscribe.

Your membership runs for one calendar year from the date your membership became effective. We will send you a renewal notice the month your membership will be due.  If you have questions about your membership, or need to update your contact information, please email Adrienne.

  1. We will list your name and personal website on the blog if you send that information to Michael Billie, EAI Social Media Director, at michaelbillieart@gmail.com. You may send images of your work to put on the member artwork slideshow. Please contact Michael with any questions as to how to submit your images.
  2. News items and jpg images for the EAI Facebook page should be e-mailed to Michael Billie.

Also, don’t forget to send us two images of your art for view/sale in the online EAI Member Gallery. Click here to see the online gallery. To have your work represented and for sale in the online gallery: Send two good quality jpegs of your work along with the details (Your name, title, the medium used including substrate, dimensions listed with height first x width x depth (if your piece is 3-d), and the retail sales price) to Mehrens@eainm.com, or to eainm.info@gmail.com. You will not be shipping this piece to us, just send the image and information to us to be posted online. The buyer will be paying shipping costs for sold work and you will be shipping the work to the buyer. Contact Mehrens@eainm.com for more information or click here.

Check our website and blog often and send us information about your own encaustic art activities (links posted on the sidebar menu of this website).