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Featured stories, resources for the enameling community, and the latest from CEA
Place as Landscape / Place as Concept: Contemporary Enameling in the U.S.
We are delighted to announce the exhibit “Place as Landscape/Place as Concept: Contemporary Enameling in the U.S,” from January 15 – March 8, 2019. Just back from Taiwan and mounted in conjunction with Richmond Arts Center, the exhibit examines the idea of place from an American perspective.
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.
The New Aesthetics of Enamel
Quick: If I told you I’d bought an enameled pendant, what would come to mind? Something clumpy and heavy, with garish colors? Maybe a small, jewel-toned piece, carefully polished?
T Magazine Features Enamelwork… Without Using the Word Enamel
The good news is that the latest issue of T Magazine has a lush spread devoted to enameled jewelry and objects new and old. (Click here to read the article.) The luminous boxes of Jean Goulden rub shoulders with the incredible miniature artworks that are Alice Cicolini’s rings and Morelli’s meditation bells.
Tools and Supplies: A Conundrum, Part 1
Here is a conundrum: If vitreous enamels, and related tools and supplies, aren’t readily available, people can’t enamel. If people can’t enamel, suppliers can’t sell supplies. This chicken-and-egg problem is a huge obstacle for the growth of enameling in the U.S. and worldwide. How do people who use vitreous enamel deal with this conundrum? How does it shape enameling today, and how will it affect enameling’s future?