The Art of Enamel

Thursday evening I rode out to Manteo with Ken Bova and Mi Sook Hur to attend the Art of Enamel opening reception. I always love the drive out to the Outer Banks, and it was great to catch up with Ken and Mi Sook. The College of the Albemarle has a fantastic little gallery, and the work was just spectacular. I still can't believe I was in a show with so many of my enameling idols!
Rock Brooches by me.
Gallery
Jennifer Wells
Marissa Saneholtz

Mi Sook Hur


The show is up through April 6th. If you're headed out that way I highly reccommend you stop in and see it!

More Art!!!

Here's a few more pieces I've recently acquired:
This is a brooch I traded for from Laura Wood's Tangled and Twisted series, which was part of her thesis. Laura and I are also trading for some custom work. She's making me a silver and abacca paper brooch and I'm working on a necklace for her. One of my favorite things about grad school has been the opportunity to get to know Laura and watch her work evolve. I'm so lucky to own so much of her work!


Laura and I even collaborated with the third member of our MFA trio, Marissa Saneholtz to make a set of Wonder Triplet Power Rings! Each one of us made a separate part of the rings: Marissa made the bands, I made the enamels and Laura made the settings. A little funky, a little outer spacish, we each have a reminder of our grad school awesomeness.


This ring was given to me as a graduation gift by a dear friend. I've been eyeing Charity Hall's work since I lost her piece to Linda Darty at Bob's scholarship auction in the fall. I found this ring at Emerge Gallery and immediately fell in love with it. It was such a pleasant surprise when if was gifted to me! It's a painted enamel Southern Green Stink Bug. I love the detailing on the ring band.

As I said before, I've got more trades in the works, so stay turned for more great art!

Busy Busy!

Well, we never quit here at ECU! This week several of us grads installed work in the Burrough's Welcome Gallery. Unfortunately, we couldn't book the gallery for the Symposium, but since we had it this week we decided to use it! It's a really informal grouping of works by Jeniffer Wells, Abigail Heuss (top photo), Kat Cole (middle photo), Marissa Saneholtz, Laura Wood and myself. Brushes from Bob's workshop are also on display.
My piece is titled "50 Days of String". It's bits of found string stitched onto Denril. It's a bit different from my usual work, but there is something that I really enjoy about it. You can see more pics of my piece "50 Days of String" here.
And if you'd like to see more photos from the Symposium, check here!

Gfits!

It's always nice to come in in the morning and find lovely gifts on your bench! This morning I found a necklace by Bob Ebendorf waiting for me, along with a geode from friend Marissa Saneholtz! I gave Bob this crab claw last week, and am tickled that he made something for me out of it! Marissa is one of the featured artists on Crafthaus this week, so be sure and check out her amazing and hilarious work!