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Enamels On and Off the Body – with Jennifer Wells

on September 19, 2018

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In this workshop we will use wire and a variety of enameling techniques to create two very different kinds of work: unique sculptural jewelry, and whimsical wall pieces.

For the jewelry, we will create complex dimensional pieces by pairing simple backings with enameled shapes of fine iron wire that we have formed and then enameled with liquid enamel. This process, which Wells has perfected for her own work, makes striking jewelry, as the lines of the enameled iron wire contrast beautifully with the monochrome colors and shapes of the flat pieces.

For the wall pieces, we will focus on line and color to create works full of color and subtle complexity. Working on flat copper sheet, we will make lines by using sgraffito in liquid enamel and pencil drawing on enamel applied to the surface, and achieve complex color layering through multiple sifting techniques and painting with watercolors and china paints. We will make frames for this work by bending iron wire in imaginative designs and configurations.

In addition to several different enameling techniques, this workshop will explore solutions to the presentation of enamels, using wire. How can we set flat enamel elements and place them on the human body? How can we frame a flat enameled piece wall so that the frame enhances what the enameled piece has to say?

Enameling techniques that will be taught:

Using liquid enamel to coat iron wire
Sgraffito through liquid enamel
pencil drawing on an enameled surface
painting with watercolor enamels
sifting to create complex layering

A basic understanding of enameling is required.

Jennifer Wells completed her M.F.A in Metalsmithing and Jewelry Design in 2010; afterwards she spent a year at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts as a resident artist, and also completed shorter-term residencies at Pocosin Arts and the Jentel Foundation. She has been a summer assistant for Haystack Mountain School of Craft and a Visiting Assistant Professor at Indiana University in Bloomington, IN. Until recently shehas taught Jewelry and Enameling in Italy with East Carolina University’s Italy Intensives program headed by Linda Darty.

Workshop Hours:

Wednesday – Friday, 10 AM to 5 PM , with meal breaks at the Crucible in Oakland, CA

Cost: $425 plus $30 materials fee

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.

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

By Judy Stone

on May 18, 2018

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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.

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Surface, Color, Form: We Talk With Kathryn Osgood About Her Boundary-Pushing Work

By Center for Enamel Art

on April 3, 2018

Brooch, Kathryn Osgood

Kathryn Osgood worked as an engineer for a small, family-owned telephone company in rural Maine for almost 20 years before starting a second life as an artist, jeweler, and enamelist. After studying with Linda Darty and Bob Ebendorf at East Carolina University, she moved to the Outer Banks of North Carolina, where she heads the Professional Crafts Jewelry Program at College of The Albemarle in Manteo.

Osgood’s work pushes the boundaries of enameling, using fold-forming, varied surfaces, and non-traditional materials to create tactile, sculptural pieces. Osgood will share her expertise in her upcoming workshop, Enamels: Exploring Texture, Color and Form. The workshop runs from May 18 – May 20, 2018, at the Crucible in Oakland, CA.

There are still slots available in this workshop–register now!

What drew you to enamel as your preferred medium?

I have always loved color. It elicits an emotional response from the viewer; it can be calming, sensual, exciting, joyful. Before I became a jeweler and enamellist, I was working as a textile artist, doing surface design, painting and dyeing fabric and creating wall hangings and quilts. When I took my first metals class, I was hooked. I loved working with metal; how it allowed me to create dimensional work. It could be hammered, shaped, and formed. I fell in love with the material, but I really missed the element of color.

When I discovered enamel, I found a way to bring color back into my work. Layering opaque and transparent enamels allows me explore an almost unlimited rich color palette.

Ocean Brooch, Kathryn Osgood

How did you become intrigued with textured dimensional surfaces?

When I began working with metal and was fabricating jewelry from sheet metal, I was not satisfied with the idea of decorating a flat surface. I wanted to create pieces that were more sculptural, to take advantage of the plasticity of metal, of its ability to be formed into organic shapes. I began exploring the natural forms around me: magnolia pods, pine cones, leaves. I was intrigued by the textures found in nature and I wanted to replicate them, creating pieces that were more organic.

I enjoy exploring ways to from metal by hammering, dapping, bending, fold forming, shell forming, and die forming. I like my pieces to have a tactile quality, to invite the viewer to touch. I want them to feel good, to entice with both texture and color.

Who have been your mentors?

There are so many talented enamelists whose work inspires me, so it is hard to just name a few.

I was lucky enough to study at East Carolina University with Linda Darty and Bob Ebendorf. Linda Darty introduced me to enameling and the world of color on metal. Linda is a master enamellist and she generously shared her extensive knowledge of enameling and was a supportive and encouraging teacher. Linda continues to impress me with her beautiful work and with her love for the art of enameling. Bob Ebendorf is also a mentor and generous teacher. His knowledge of metalsmithing and his adventurous creative spirit continue to inspire me in living a creative life.

Osgood on the North Carolina coast

What inspires your work?

I live on Roanoke Island, off the coast of North Carolina. Since moving to the Outer Banks area, my work has changed to reflect my environment. The colors and textures of the sand and the water that surround my coastal home inform my work. In the early mornings, I often walk on the beach with my dog, Lola, picking up pieces of shells and driftwood that have washed in with the tide. My pieces are based on marine plant and animal forms, their textures and colors informed by the shell fragments that I have collected.

Find more of Osgood’s work on her website.

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Strange Bedfellows: Combining Champlevé and Decals – a workshop with Marissa Saneholtz

By Judy Stone

on November 18, 2017

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This Workshop is Now Full

For many millennia, people have had the technology to create enameled objects. Many of the terms we use now to describe these ancient techniques have a much more modern origin, but the basic principles are steadfast. Champlevé is a French term that describes enamels that are inlaid into designs made of metal with higher fields and recessed compartments. Over the course of centuries, this particular technique has been perfected by artists and employed to create bold imagery within enameled works. Fast forward to the digital age. Artists are now employing computers and customizing printers with inks that are compatible with glass and can be fired into the surface of enameled objects.

By combining the traditional technique of Champlevé with the technology- based technique of iron based toner decals, students will be able to create highly detailed pieces with many layers of information. The tandem use of these two processes allows for the addition of extra pattern, texture, or even narrative clues to further concept and decorative qualities.
Over the course of a three-day workshop students will have the opportunity to learn how to etch, wet pack, fire, stone, and finish Champlevé pieces as well as create custom decals that will then be applied to the enameled surfaces created. All levels welcome.

Marissa Saneholtz

Marissa Saneholtz makes narrative based jewelry and objects using humor and sarcasm. In 2008, Marissa earned her BFA in 3-dimensional design from Bowling Green State University and her MFA in 2011 in metals and jewelry design from East Carolina University. She has taught at
several institutions including East Carolina University’s Italy Intensives Study Abroad Program in Certaldo, Italy and Appalachian State University in Boone, NC. For two years she worked at J.Cotter Galleries and Studio in Vail, Colorado as gallery manager and assistant studio manager.
Currently, she is currently teaching at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, OH. Saneholtz has been published in several books, including Art Jewelry Today II edited by Jeffery Snyder and Humor in Craft by Brigitte Martin. Her work has been exhibited both nationally and
internationally and can be seen on display at in the Dorothy McKenzie Price Permanent Collection at Bowling Green State University as well as at the Racine Art Museum in Racine, WI. She is also co-founder of the Smitten Forum, an annual creative gathering of metalsmiths and
makers.

Manly-Man Brooches

Workshop Hours:

Saturday – Monday, 10 AM to 5 PM , with meal breaks

Cost: $475 plus $30 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.

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The Alchemy of Copper Oxides – a workshop with Kristina Glick

By Judy Stone

on July 5, 2017

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Register Now – Registration Deadline is June 30

This workshop will explore the dynamic interaction between glass, copper and heat. When layered and fired with understanding and skill it is possibleto harness the oxides inherent in copper to create a entire range of vibrant colors while using only clear and white enamel. This technique is experimental in the way that it relies on oxides present in the copper substrate to provide color rather than relying on pigmented enamel as is the norm in most enameling. It also requires the use of a wider range of firing temperatures and techniques than are used in traditional enameling, as well as strategic thinking about how glass and metal interact in the activating environment of the kiln. Another experimental aspect of the workshop is the use of liquid enamels. While liquid form enamels have become much more common among artist in the past 20 years, there are still many aspects of the medium that are not fully explored and many enamelists continue to exclusively use traditional jewelry enamels. One of liquid enamel’s unique qualities is how its fine grains allow for very fine line sgraffito which makes it ideally suited for layering. Another is its ability to absorb and interact with copper oxides as well as its suitability for creating striking visual effects when combined with exposed areas of heat patinaed copper. This workshop is appropriate for all skill levels.

Kristina Glick is a metalsmith, enamelist and educator currently living in Northern Indiana. She is an Associate Professor of Art and Director of the Hershberger Gallery at Goshen College (IN). She has taught enameling and jewelry making workshops across the country, most recently teaching the 2016 eight week fall concentration at Penland School of Crafts in NC. Kristina has exhibited extensively and her work has been published in several books including 500 Gemstone Jewels and 500 Enameled Objects. Kristina earned a BA in Interdisciplinary Studies from Goshen College in 1997 and an MFA in Metal Design from East Carolina University in 2007. In addition to enameling, her work often combines found objects and traditional metalworking techniques into pieces that are rich with color, texture, and unexpected details.