12/9/15 12/9/15

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!

9/28/15 9/28/15

Part II: What Is Missing From This Picture?

This is the second of our two-part series, Challenges and Opportunities for Artists Who Choose Enamel, an essay by our intern Zhou Zoe Yuan. You can read the first part here.

9/21/15 9/21/15

Part I: Is Enameling a Dying Art?

We are delighted to share with you a two-part essay, Challenges And Opportunities for Artists Who Choose Enamel, by our intern Zhou Zoe Yuan, a fourth-year student at California College of the Arts. It is an excellent exploration of enamel’s place in the art world and a wonderful starting point for a discussion of these issues.

9/6/15 9/6/15

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.

8/19/15 8/19/15

"The more you know, the more you can do."

This is the final post in our series of interviews with enamel artists included in the California Now exhibit at the Richmond Art Center.

Interview with Nick Dong

8/16/15 8/16/15

"I was tempted by the colors, but I stayed for the lack of control"

With this post we continue our interviews with artists from the California Now exhibition at Richmond Art Center.

Interview with Evelyn Markasky

8/5/15 8/5/15

"Fearless art is the best art of all"

This is the first of our interviews with artists from the California Now exhibition at Richmond Art Center.

Interview with Victoria Montgomery

7/23/15 7/23/15

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.

6/26/15 6/26/15

Does “California Now” Give West Coast Enameling Its Due?

This summer’s crowded exhibition schedule includes a major exhibit that hopes to put California enameling on the map.

6/25/15 6/25/15

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