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Color, Light and Line – A Workshop with Linda Darty

By Judy Stone
 on July 18, 2019

THIS WORKSHOP IS NOW FULL.
We are not taking waitlist names at this time

Explore the rich beauty of cloisonné enameling over copper or fine silver, working with transparent color on small jewelry scale pieces. Working primarily on simple shapes and pre-cut pieces, we will focus on blending colors to achieve value gradations, luminosity and depth, creating beautiful gem like surfaces. Foils can be used beneath colors to create special effects. We will also discuss matte finishing techniques and setting options unique to enameling. Students will be challenged to work at their own level of experience. Expect to complete one or two small cloisonné pieces during this four day workshop.
All levels welcome.

Linda Darty is a jewelry professor at East Carolina University and founder and director of the Italy Intensives study abroad program in Tuscany, where she currently lives and teaches. She has exhibited extensively abroad, is the author of The Art of Enameling, and frequently teaches workshops on enameling in the U.S. and internationally. Linda is the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award for research from East Carolina University, the Board of Governors Award for teaching excellence and the Life Time Achievement Award from The Enamelist Society. Her work is in public and private collections including the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the Museum of Art and Design in NYC.

Workshop Hours:

Thursday-Sunday, 10 AM to 5 PM , with meal breaks at Silvera Jewelry School

Cost: $785 plus $50 materials fee

Materials List: Provided upon registration or when ready

Registration: Limited to 9 after participating in the registration lottery

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

Lodging, Meals, Transportation:

Coming from out of town? Check AirBnB, Priceline, and other discounted online lodging sources, The Center will try help you make your stay comfortable and stress free while you are a workshop participant.

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Captured in Glass: Photography+Enamel with Gretchen Goss

By Judy Stone
 on June 7, 2019
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THIS WORKSHOP IS NOW FULL.
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Have you ever wished you could capture a photograph in a permanent medium like enamel? Do you love making discoveries with experimental techniques? This is your chance to discover the potential of photographic imagery in your enameled work! In this four-day workshop, we will learn several methods of image reproduction:

  • acid etching, in which images are etched into copper prior to enameling
  • decals, in which images are fused to a layer of enamel
  • image transfer using gum bichromate
  • photograms, which are silhouettes created with objects or stencils

This 4-day workshop will also cover basic drawing and painting methods in enameling. Finished surfaces and methods of presentations will be discussed. Students will produce a series of fired samples as well as pieces ready to be framed, mounted, set or otherwise finished for presentation.

Some preparation for the workshop will happen ahead of time. Prior to the workshop, students will receive instructions for materials to purchase and prepare, including negatives on acetate and objects for photograms.
Basic enamel experience is required.

Gretchen Goss is a professor at the Cleveland Institute of Art, teaching enameling and craft and design courses for ceramics, glass and jewelry/metals students. Her work has been supported by multiple Ohio Arts Council Individual Artists Grants, and included in exhibits nationally and internationally. She has been a curator, juror, visiting artist, and lecturer, and taught numerous enameling workshops nationally and in the UK.  In 2013 she was awarded the Creative Arts Awards from the Enamelist Society.

Workshop Hours:

Friday-Saturday, Monday, 10 AM to 5 PM , Sunday, 10 AM to 4 PM
at the Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA.

Cost: $650 plus $50 materials fee

Materials List: Provided upon registration or when ready

Registration: Limited to 8

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

Lodging, Meals, Transportation:

Coming from out of town? Check AirBnB, Priceline, and other discounted online lodging sources, The Center will try help you make your stay comfortable and stress free while you are a workshop participant.

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“Place as Landscape” Free Docent Presentation

By Judy Stone
 on February 16, 2019

Join Judy Stone in the South Gallery of the Richmond Art Center for a 1 hour tour of this unique enamel exhibition.

Stone will talk about how the exhibition came to be, why the work was chosen, the artists in the exhibition, and how the work was made. Her presentation is a shortened version of the talk she gave in Taipei, Taiwan at the opening of Blaze,  international enamel exhibition last year.

There will be a repeat of this presentation on March 2 at 2 PM.

A limited number of catalogues from Blaze will be offered for sale ($40ea.) at this event.

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Drawing and Painting in Enamel: Large-Scale Liquid Enamel on Steel – a workshop with Janly Jaggard

By Judy Stone
 on January 30, 2019

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This is a 3-day workshop for enamelists who dream of creating large artworks, or painters who are eager to experiment in another medium.

Our main focus will be the creative process of developing a two-dimensional work. Using steel panels as our canvas and vitreous liquid enamel as our medium, we will fire pieces in a furnace that has interior dimensions of 5’ x 8’at KVO Industries in Santa Rosa, CA where the new Center for Enamel Art Annex is located. We will carefully consider color, composition and characteristics of surface as we develop our “paintings” with the enamels used by the enamel industry. We will also experiment with various techniques in liquid enamel such as spraying, screen printing, brushing, erasing and drawing, all in service of the ideas we are exploring in the piece.

This is a unique opportunity to carry out some serious practice and risk-taking with enamels on a large scale, at the only enamel workspace of its kind in the country, an annex we have established in an industrial enameling facility. No enamel experience necessary.

 

Janly Jaggard is a master enamelist.  She is a British-born artist now living in Staunton, Virginia. As a painter she works in vitreous enamels as well traditional painting media. She earned a BFA in Ceramics in the early 70’s in England.  An art teacher and practicing artist, she has participated as both an enamelist and a painter in regional, national and international exhibitions. She returned to the UK to studies in Fine Art at Norwich University of the Arts, UK, completing her MA in 2016. This intense experience led to the reassurance about why she paints and how the medium reciprocates influence to the enamel work. She has lived in the US since 1993.

While she is teaching at the Center’s Annex in Santa Rosa her work will appear in the Center’s exhibition Place as Landscape, Place as Concept: Contemporary Enameling in the U. S. which opens January 15, 2019 at the Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA.

Workshop Hours:

Weds. – Friday, 10 AM to 5 PM at KVO Industries, Santa Rosa, CA,  in the Center for Enamel Art dedicated space which is called “The Annex.”
Optional facilitated evening work hours will be available for an additional fee.  Furnaces are turned off at 5 PM but artists will be able to work in the evenings and fire their pieces the next morning.

Cost:
$475 plus $45 materials fee, additional optional fee* of $60 for two 2 1/2 hr. work sessions Jan.30 and 31.
*It is important that you indicate your preference for these evening hours when you register.

Materials List: Provided upon registration or when ready

Registration: Limited to 10

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

Lodging, Meals, Transportation:

Coming from out of town? Check AirBnB, Priceline, and other discounted online lodging sources, The Center will try help you make your stay comfortable and stress free while you are a workshop participant.

 

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Place as Landscape, Place as Concept: Contemporary Enameling in the U.S.

By Judy Stone
 on January 15, 2019

The Center for Enamel Art is pleased to announce that Place as Landscape, Place as Concept: Contemporary Enameling in the U. S., will be opening  at the  Richmond Art Center on Jan. 15, 2019.

Show dates: January 15 to March 8, 2019
Show hours:  Tue – Sat, 10 am – 5 pm
Closed Sundays and Mondays & Major Holidays.
Gallery admission is free.
Reception: Saturday, February 2, 2019, 2:00 – 5:00 pm
Docent Tours: TBA

Mounted in conjunction with Richmond Arts Center, the exhibit examines the idea of place from an American perspective.These works in enamel–by established and emerging artists alike, using a range of traditional and experimental techniques–explore place as as a way of understanding who we are. By turns complex, conflicted, melancholy, and beautiful, these images and objects show us our country as well as ourselves.

This exhibition expands upon the American showcase presented at BLAZE: International Contemporary Enamel Exhibition at the National Taiwan Craft Research and Development Institute in Taipei (May-August, 2018).

Artists: Ken Bova, Harlan Butt, Katy Cassell, Kat Cole, Helen Elliott, Danielle Embry, Greg Flint, Kristina Glick, Gretchen Goss, Janly Jaggard, Sarah Loch-Test, Sharon Massey, Cynthia Miller, Pat Musick, Gail Reid, Rene Roberts, Averill Shepps, Jan Smith, Judy Stone, Don Viehman, Carly Wright

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