Judy Pagnusat
Judy Pagnusat
Board President
Anat Silvera
Anat Silvera
Vice-President
Candace Flemmer
Candace Flemmer
Board Treasurer
I had my first taste of enameling at the end of April 2018 in Prague at the studio of Magdalena Urbanova. I was very excited with what I experienced and searched online for my commitment to enameling. When I returned to my home I discovered that the Center for Enamel Art was “headquartered” in my city, El Cerrito. The workshops offered through the Center have made it possible for me to sample a wide variety of techniques with phenomenal instructors for an affordable price. Currently I’m slowly transforming the garage below our apartment into a dedicated enameling and jewelry studio. Enameling is the Holy Grail – the one art that allows me to combine all the techniques I have dabbled in, with a healthy element of danger and suspense, and the added bonus of finally finding a use for long forgotten chemistry lessons.
By day, I’m an indirect tax accountant at Dolby Laboratories in San Francisco . A while back, I served as the treasurer for the Dolby Speakers Toastmaster’s chapter.
As Center for Enamel Art Treasurer I want to play a role in ensuring the congoing success of the organization so we can continue to offer the fantastic programming that the Center has become well known for.
Sarah Loch-Test
Sarah Loch-Test
Board Secretary
Sarah Loch-Test studied at Kent State and East Carolina universities, where she embraced the art of enameling. Her time spent living in Pittsburgh, a resilient city in a post-industrial era, heavily influenced her metalwork. Now she responds to how various forms of industry affect our environment and landscapes. Having taken up trail running, she gets plenty of ideas while out on the trails in Texas. She currently works as Metals Technician and adjunct instructor at the University of North Texas. Her work has been included in the biennial Enamelist Society Exhibitions and is in the Enamel Foundation’s permanent collection.
Jenn Parnell Kirkpatrick
Jenn Parnell Kirkpatrick
Board Member
Jenn Parnell Kirkpatrick graduated from RISD in 1999 with her BFA in Jewelry and Metalsmithing. In 2010 she received her MFA from Towson University. She founded Jenn Parnell Designs in 2000. Her work has been shown in national and international galleries, art shows and exhibition throughout the US, and published in several books. She fell in love with enameling the first time she learned about it in the late 90s, loving how she could simply put color exactly where she wanted to in her work. Jenn has been teaching all levels of jewelry classes since 2004 at the Baltimore Jewelry Center, MICA, Corcoran College of Art, and currently at Silvera Jewelry School.
Board Emerita:
Judy Stone, Kat Cole, Hosanna Rubio, Gail Reid, Jennifer Emery, Brooke Battles, Diana Kaitz, Katy Bergman Cassell, Hannah Sigur
