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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.
Kat Cole Enamels Her Work at KVO Industries, Part 2
This is the seventh in a series of guest posts by the enamel artist Kat Cole. This post previously appeared on her blog.
Kat Cole Enamels Her Work at KVO Industries, Part 1
This is the sixth in a series of guest posts by the enamel artist Kat Cole. This post previously appeared on her blog.
KVO is a small company running impressive facilities with incredible possibilities. They have made signage for the state and national park systems, large-scale outdoor images for cities and museums, and worked with artists to re-create images of their work in enamel for public projects.
Kat Cole Crates and Ships Steel Pieces to KVO Industries
This is the fifth in a series of guest posts by the enamel artist Kat Cole. This post previously appeared on her blog.
The more sculpture I make, the more I realize one of the biggest hurdles is shipping. It is not as easy as picking up a flat rate USPS priority box and making sure to insure it, which is usually simple and inexpensive when shipping jewelry and small objects. The logistics of transporting these three- to four-foot panels to and from California has been one of the more stressful components of this project.
Construction of Kat Cole's Piece Begins at KVO Industries
This is the fourth in a series of guest posts by the enamel artist Kat Cole. This post previously appeared on her blog.
As I prepared to build the pieces, I asked for assistance from the experts at KVO Industries about fabricating and their construction techniques. Just as in jewelry, the function of these panels have to be considered in the design phase.
Kate Cole: Project Crossroads
This is the first in a series of blog posts by the enamel artist Kat Cole. Cole, who has been making distinctive enameled steel jewelry, met Center for Enamel Art founder Judy Stone last year when Cole taught a Radical Enameling workshop for the Center. Stone encouraged Cole to explore the expanded use of industrial materials in her work, and connected her to KVO Industries, a partner of the Center for Enamel Art, where Cole created a large sculptural piece. Cole’s posts, which she is also sharing on her own blog, give insight into her practice and process as she brings a new scale to her work.
Art and the Enamel Industry w/ Kat Cole
We are thrilled to introduce a series of guest posts by the enamel artist Kat Cole.
Today the term “Enameling” is generally used to mean small, intensively crafted, jewel-like work, set into wearable or functional objects. But in the not-so-distant past, enamelists commonly worked much larger, on art pieces the size of a painter’s oversized canvas.