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Explorations & Rendering: Drawing and Painting with Enamel – A Workshop with Martha Banyas

on December 7, 2018

This Masters workshop workshop with Martha Banyas will explore many different ways to translate images into enamel.We will broaden your visual vocabulary by looking closely at numerous rendering techniques such as drawing, painting, printing, sgraffito, stippling, pen & ink and surface texturing. For materials, I will also focus primarily on underglazes of various kinds, allowing you to build layers of image and texture with very little additional enamel. Underglazes can be one of your most useful tools and can be applied using many rendering techniques for a variety of visual and textural effects. We will also dive into the uses of media: water-based, oils and acrylics and find out which works best in different situations…and/or which can be used together. Overall, I want to show you how to get more visual information and bang into your enamels, while keeping the amount of enamel to a minimum….a real plus for jewelry especially. I look forward to sharing my knowledge and experiences in enameling with you!

Previous enamel experience is very helpful.

Martha Banyas is a longtime Portland resident, artist, educator, and dealer of ethnographic arts, who has been working in enamels for over 40 years. She is widely known in Portland for her former gallery Apa Ini, which featured textiles, artifacts, and art from Southeast Asia and central Europe. During her extensive travels to SE Asia and Turkey, her work evolved in many directions including mask-making, life-size puppet design, and jewelry, as well as small-scale sculpture. In 2005 she returned to studio enamel and metal work full time. Her work has been exhibited nationally including shows at Craft Alliance, St Louis, MO, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, Mobilia Gallery, Boston, MA, American Craft Museum, NY, Jamison/Thomas Gallery, Portland, OR, Greenwood Gallery, Washington D.C., Contemporary Crafts Gallery, Portland OR, and internationally in Germany and Japan.

Workshop Hours:

Friday-Sunday, 10 AM to 5 PM , with meal breaks at the Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA

Cost: $505 plus $35 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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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.

Lodging, Meals, Transportation:

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Enameling On Steel: Kat Cole’s Marvelous Workshop

By Center for Enamel Art

on December 9, 2015

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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