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Enameling On Steel: Kat Cole’s Marvelous Workshop

Radical: thorough-going or extreme, especially as regards to change from accepted or traditional forms (from dictionary.com)

The Center for Enamel Art has thoroughly embraced this definition with their Radical Enameling workshops! One of the most recent, “Liquid Form Enamel and Enameling on Steel,” taught by instructor Kat Cole at the Richmond Art Center, took the art form in fascinating new directions.

 

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Kat Cole applies liquid enamel to a sample in her Radical Enameling workshop with the Center for Enamel Art.

During the three-day workshop we learned Read More →

Enamel as Glass: Not So Radical!

Two recent workshops help re-define enamel’s place in the art world.

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A very glaze-like treatment of enamel by Duane Fitzgerald, “Bowl II”

Sometimes similar ideas appear in unrelated places and then turn out to be related after all, in what I think of as an ‘archetype’ in the Jungian sense of the word.  This is what has slowly been happening in various corners of the art and craft communities, as makers of all kinds are treating enamel more as a glass, and less as simply a glaze for metal. Read More →