Point Out Loud - Women Trailblazers Podcast - E.01 Jessie Fritsch

This podcast focuses on the fact that at UWSP, Women Thrive. We thrive in the world because we participate in leadership at all levels of human decision-making. The UW-Stevens Point Women Trailblazers Podcast centers women and all the ways we lead together. “Women belong in all places where decisions are being made.” - Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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I am a working artist, an art fair exhibitor, an encaustic workshop instructor, owner of Buzz in Art Studios, a mural artist, and an art event planner.
In my first year of college, I stumbled across the book about ancient funeral portraits painted with beeswax titled “The Mysterious Fayum Portraits: Faces from Ancient Egypt” by Euphrosyne Doxiadis. I became fascinated by the lost art of encaustic and have dedicated myself to working with the beeswax medium for the past 20 years.
In 2004 I received a research grant from UWSP to teach myself how to paint with molten pigmented beeswax. I graduated with a BFA in Studio Art with a painting emphasis in 2006. I didn’t get into graduate school so I began exhibiting at art festivals and have been showcasing my beeswax paintings across the Midwest.