Archive for enameled steel

March 8 Play Day at the Annex

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Join the Center for Enamel Art and KVO Industries in a day of fun and learning with and within the porcelain enamel industry. We will provide materials, tools, and expertise to help you get acquainted with this wonderful medium. You can spray stencil, silkscreen, sgraffito, use transfer materials such as decals, draw, and paint with the enamel. You will be able to fire pieces in the factory’s large kiln which has interior dimensions of 5′ x 8′.

If you have specific projects you would like to work on, this is a wonderful opportunity to work on those projects.
A technical advisor and member of KVO’s staff will be on hand to work with you and introduce you to KVO Industries where the Center’s Annex is located.

We are charging  $135, a special reduced fee, for this inaugural play day only. Starting in April we will be listing our full play day schedules for the rest of the year. Participants will be able to take advantage of discounts for multiple play day registrations through out the year. Stay tuned for more play day information.

The fee excludes any custom work done by the factory including creating silkscreens and custom colors. Additional materials will be available for sale at bargain  prices.

Space is limited to 12 participants per session.

All registrants will receive an email 2 days before the session describing how to prepare.

Sgraffito Play Day at the Annex

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Please contact to be put on a waitlist for this event.

Sgraffito is a wonderful  drawing technique using vitreous liquid enamel.  All artists in all media are welcome to try it for a day. The use of liquid enamel to glaze steel in high heat can provide the potential for creating larger pieces that are virtually indestructible for outdoor installations and functional objects. The Center for Enamel Art Annex, situated within KVO Industries provides a great way to create within and with the enamel industry, using industrial equipment and supplies. This one day play day is the first in a series that Center for Enamel Art will be sponsoring to explore various rendering techniques in this medium with well-known ceramicist/metal artist, Todd Barrickclow, who is known for his black on white sgraffito clay work. No previous enameling or metalworking experience is necessary.

Participants will start off the day by  spraying several small 5″ x  7″ white-coated steel tiles with a solid  contrasting color. After working smaller there will be the option to work in larger formats and add overglaze color to sgraffitoed images.

Where:
The Center for Enamel Art Annex inside KVO Industries, an industrial enamel firm in Santa Rosa, CA.

When:
Saturday, January 18, 9 AM to 4 PM

Cost: $150 including all materials, additional materials will be available for sale.

Limit 10 participants
Deadline for registration is January 12th.

 

Todd Barrricklow was born in the San Fernando Valley of Southern California in June of 1969. He is the eldest son of two. His parents were marionette making school teachers and long time vendors at the renaissance fair. Encouraged in the arts from an early age, he attended a humanities magnet high school where he started working in ceramics and drawing. He continued his education at Sonoma State University where he graduated with distinction in 1992. He was an Artist in Residence in the Arts/Industry Program at the Kohler Company in Wisconsin in 1999. He shows regularly and works from his studio and home in Santa Rosa, where he works in Ceramics, Printmaking and Metal.

June 15th Play Day at The Annex

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Join the Center for Enamel Art and KVO Industries in a day of fun and learning with and within the porcelain enamel industry. We will provide materials, tools, and expertise to help you get acquainted with this wonderful medium. You can spray stencil, silkscreen, sgraffito, use transfer materials such as decals, draw, and paint with the enamel. You will be able to fire pieces in the factory’s large kiln which has interior dimensions of 5′ x 8′.
If you have specific projects you would like to work on, this a wonderful opportunity to work on those projects.
A technical advisor and member of KVO’s staff will be on hand to work with you and introduce you to KVO Industries where the Center’s Annex is located.

Cost: $150
Excludes any custom work done by the factory including creating silkscreens and custom colors. Additional materials will be available for sale at bargain  prices.
Space is limited to 7 participants per session.

All registrants will receive an email 2-3 days before the session describing how to prepare.

“Place as Landscape” Free Docent Presentation

Join Judy Stone in the South Gallery of the Richmond Art Center for a 1 hour tour of this unique enamel exhibition.

Stone will talk about how the exhibition came to be, why the work was chosen, the artists in the exhibition, and how the work was made. Her presentation is a shortened version of the talk she gave in Taipei, Taiwan at the opening of Blaze,  international enamel exhibition last year.

There will be a repeat of this presentation on March 2 at 2 PM.

A limited number of catalogues from Blaze will be offered for sale ($40ea.) at this event.

Drawing and Painting in Enamel: Large-Scale Liquid Enamel on Steel – a workshop with Janly Jaggard

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This is a 3-day workshop for enamelists who dream of creating large artworks, or painters who are eager to experiment in another medium.

Our main focus will be the creative process of developing a two-dimensional work. Using steel panels as our canvas and vitreous liquid enamel as our medium, we will fire pieces in a furnace that has interior dimensions of 5’ x 8’at KVO Industries in Santa Rosa, CA where the new Center for Enamel Art Annex is located. We will carefully consider color, composition and characteristics of surface as we develop our “paintings” with the enamels used by the enamel industry. We will also experiment with various techniques in liquid enamel such as spraying, screen printing, brushing, erasing and drawing, all in service of the ideas we are exploring in the piece.

This is a unique opportunity to carry out some serious practice and risk-taking with enamels on a large scale, at the only enamel workspace of its kind in the country, an annex we have established in an industrial enameling facility. No enamel experience necessary.

 

Janly Jaggard is a master enamelist.  She is a British-born artist now living in Staunton, Virginia. As a painter she works in vitreous enamels as well traditional painting media. She earned a BFA in Ceramics in the early 70’s in England.  An art teacher and practicing artist, she has participated as both an enamelist and a painter in regional, national and international exhibitions. She returned to the UK to studies in Fine Art at Norwich University of the Arts, UK, completing her MA in 2016. This intense experience led to the reassurance about why she paints and how the medium reciprocates influence to the enamel work. She has lived in the US since 1993.

While she is teaching at the Center’s Annex in Santa Rosa her work will appear in the Center’s exhibition Place as Landscape, Place as Concept: Contemporary Enameling in the U. S. which opens January 15, 2019 at the Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA.

Workshop Hours:

Weds. – Friday, 10 AM to 5 PM at KVO Industries, Santa Rosa, CA,  in the Center for Enamel Art dedicated space which is called “The Annex.”
Optional facilitated evening work hours will be available for an additional fee.  Furnaces are turned off at 5 PM but artists will be able to work in the evenings and fire their pieces the next morning.

Cost:
$475 plus $45 materials fee, additional optional fee* of $60 for two 2 1/2 hr. work sessions Jan.30 and 31.
*It is important that you indicate your preference for these evening hours when you register.

Materials List: Provided upon registration or when ready

Registration: Limited to 10

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.