Enamels: Exploring Texture, Color and Form-a workshop with Kathryn Osgood

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This 3-day workshop is about textured surfaces and three dimensional form in enameling. Texture is built through experimentation including sugar-firing, overfiring and firing on to an enameled surface with non-traditional material such as cubic zirconia, sand, reflective glass beads, frit, and glass microbeads. We will move beyond the traditional glossy enamel surfaces to create intriguing tactility.

To explore the use of vitreous enamels on dimensional surfaces the metal forming will involve fold forming, shell forming, die forming, and corrugating. We will create color through layered opaques and transparents, liquid enamels, silver foil, graphite, and enamel paints. Solutions for setting enameled pieces will be discussed.

All levels welcome.

Kathryn Osgood is associate professor at College of The Abermarle in Manteo, NC. She received her MFA from East Carolina University. She has exhibited nationally and internationally and her work is featured in several publications: The Art of Enameling, Contemporary Enameling: Art and Technique, 500 Earrings, 500 Enameled Objects,  and Metalsmith magazine.

Workshop Hours:

Friday – Sunday, 10 AM to 5 PM , with meal breaks

Cost: $425 plus $30 materials fee

Materials List: Provided upon registration or when ready

Registration: Limited to 12

Refund Policy: No refunds unless your workshop position can be filled by another person.

Lodging, Meals, Transportation:

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