THE ENSO CIRCLE: DESIGNED AND LED BY MICHELLE BELTO AND LYN BELISLE

The Enso Circle is a 12-week virtual residency for artists seeking focus, encouragement, and meaningful creative community. Residents meet weekly on Zoom for conversation, reflection, and practical guidance while developing an individual body of work in their own studios.
Ongoing connection through Slack, weekly prompts, and personal check-ins provides structure without pressure. The residency concludes with a professionally designed digital catalog celebrating each artist’s work and growth. Open to artists working in all media and at every stage of their creative practice.
Founded by Lyn Belisle and Michelle Belto, the Enso Circle is celebrating its fifth year of nurturing creativity, connection, and artistic growth.
  • We first started discussing this idea in 2015.  "Studio Sanctuary" was what we were calling it then because we wanted to have an emphasis on the spiritual which had always been a part of our own work....trusting the process, creating from the inside out.
  • The COVID isolation gave us the time and the opportunity to reflect and refine what it is that we wanted for ourselves as artists and what we could offer others. The Enso Circle became a reality in the spring of 2021.
  • The Enso Circle embodies both the journey that is art making and the community of support we create as colleagues and collaborators. We'd love for you to join us.
Lyn's Bio and Story

Lyn Belisle is an award-winning teacher, artist, designer, and writer, who has taught a range of fine arts, humanities, English, and graphic design throughout her 50-year career.  Lyn teaches mixed-media workshops at Lyn Belisle Studio in San Antonio. She also teaches nationally, recently in Taos, Santa Fe, Provincetown, Washington State. and Mulranny, Ireland.  Her online mixed-media workshops are hosted at Lyn Belisle Studio on Teachable. Her signature media are earthenware, paper, encaustic, and fiber. She has had six one-person gallery exhibits since 2011, and recently retired from the faculty at the Computer Science Department at Trinity University. Lyn is an active member of the San Antonio Art League, the Fiber Artists of San Antonio, the San Antonio  Potters' Guild, the Encaustic Art institute, the International Encaustic Artists, and The American Craft Council.
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Michelle's Bio and Story

Michelle Belto is a multi-faceted artist and teacher, whose work as an artist, educator and author spans more than forty years, three continents and multiple publications. She holds degrees and certifications in Fine Art, Theater and Expressive Arts. Michelle’s teaching schedule includes instruction in her signature work with paper and wax (Wax and Paper Workshop, Northlight Press 2012) and her life’s work developing an insightful process for deciphering meaning and purpose from the art we create. Her art is in private, corporate and museum collections. Michelle was selected to be one of the original CORE instructors for R&F Paints and developed the Encaustic Painting discipline as adjunct faculty for Southwest School of Art. WEBSITE
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