Cynthia Winika is a mixed media artist who shows her work in the U.S. and abroad. She is a national member of A.I.R. Gallery, NYC. Cynthia is the Encaustic Workshop Director/Teacher for R&F Handmade Paints and has been a visiting artist/lecturer at Yale University, Oregon College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco Art Institute, Columbia College Chicago, and the Montclair Art Museum. Her paintings and technical advice on encaustic are featured inCollage for the Soul by Paula Grasdal, and The Art of Encaustic Painting: Contemporary Expression in the Ancient Medium of Pigmented Wax by Joanne Mattera.