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Featured stories, resources for the enameling community, and the latest from CEA
The Nature of a Place: Harlan Butt's Enameled Vessels
Since 2003, enamelist and metalsmith Harlan Butt has been at work on a series of enameled vessels based on our national parks. On vessels he forms himself, he uses traditional techniques to create imagery and text that he develops during extended wilderness stays.
Expanding Our Space, Expanding Our Reach. You Can Help!
As we announced just before New Year’s, we have been offered a wonderful opportunity: our own space for large-scale enameling in a new facility that KVO Industries has acquired in Santa Rosa, CA.
Our workshops are back for another terrific year! REGISTER NOW
Registration is now open for our 2018 workshop season–join us! Master traditional skills or push the limits of new ones in friendly, small-group classes taught by top educators and artists. Choose from our Radical Enameling series or our NEW Masters Series!
Surface, Color, Form: We Talk With Kathryn Osgood About Her Boundary-Pushing Work
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.
Enameling On Steel: Kat Cole's Marvelous Workshop
During the three-day workshop we learned all about steel: different types (which had always confused me), which kinds of steel work best with enameling, and resources for finding special enameling steel (which can be difficult to track down). As we discovered, you can even enamel on stainless steel, which we did on bowls provided to us in the workshop!
Helen Elliott: Enamel on Steel
Here, we have shared portions of an interview that Helen Elliott conducted with the Enamel Guild Northeast this spring, in which she talks about her process and her inspirations.
Enamel as Glass: Not So Radical!
Two recent workshops help re-define enamel’s place in the art world. Sometimes similar ideas appear in unrelated places and then turn out to be related after all, in what I think of as an ‘archetype’ in the Jungian sense of the word. This is what has slowly been happening in various corners of the art and craft communities, as makers of all kinds are treating enamel more as a glass, and less as simply a glaze for metal.