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In honor of Black Lives Matter, here is my next painting video, "Ida Wells." Ida B Wells was a Suffragist, newspaper reporter, editor and civil rights advocate. She spoke about racial violence in the South in the 1890’s, putting her own life at risk from angry white...

In 1918, a group of Suffrage activists was held in the District Jail in Washington, DC, for protesting outside the White House. As they had done before, the women immediately went on a hunger strike to demand that they be given the status of political prisoners....

“Old Film, New Film,” 60″x60″, encaustic mixed media, 2016This painting compares and contrast the black and white past with the colorful present. On the left side of the work, we see the year 1917, when men made jokes about putting Suffragists in boxes, police...

Thank you,  WETA,  and specifically Judy Meschel, for making this short video happen.  I, and my film maker husband Joe, worked with Judy to film my painting  process and my work during the pandemic.It's an honor to be part of WETA's programming!Also, thank you Women...

I am creating a virtual show of what would have hung this month at Monmouth University ( )https://www.monmouth.edu/mca/event/she-persisted-julia-dzikiewicz/. Once a week, I will publish a video of a painting, so you can see the show without leaving your living...

     I am a mixed media artist. My artworks combine encaustic paint, encaustic printed paper, small wax objects, glass buttons, crystals, lights and jewelry.       I use encaustic paint, which is made from beeswax, dammar...