• Paula Roland Encaustic Monotype “Carbon and Ink with Encaustic”, Chicago, Illinois, September 2016
• Advanced Encaustic Seminar by Paula Roland – Santa Fe, New Mexico – April 2009
• First National Encaustic Painting Conference at Montserrat College of Art – Salem, MA, June 2007
• Master’s class in advanced encaustics – Joanne Mattera, Sonoma, CA – Fall 2006
• Ox-Bow, School of the Art Institute of Chicago – encaustic workshop, including encaustic wax techniques, Saugatuck, MI, 2001

• Hope College – sculpture and painting
• Kendall College of Art and Design – scholarship recipient – drawing/painting
• Ferris State College – Master’s degree in Teaching

• “Encaustic Arts Publication” – Winter 2018-featured artist for Encaustic Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM
• Presenter for Advanced Encaustic Seminar by Paula Roland – April 2009 – Santa Fe, New Mexico
• American Women Artist’s National Finalist – 2000 – Santa Fe, NM
• “Distinguished Teacher of the Year” – Ferris State College – 1990

My paintings are titled after they are finished. I paint from remembered landscapes that I carry with me and remembered feelings of them, which of course become transformed. I could certainly never mirror nature. I would like to paint what it leaves with me.

— Joan Mitchell