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.
