All Levels (Beginners welcome)
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Joanne Conant

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JF0812 Feb 18-19, 2012 (10am-5pm) Sat/Sun (Jewelry Studio, Mill Building)

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Revolutionize your metalsmithing practice by colorizing your world in this weekend workshop. Experiment adding color to copper, brass, silver or pewter with colored waxes, colored pencils and enamel with master jewelry, metal and enamel artist, Joanne Conant.The first day of class will be dedicated to experimenting with colored waxes and colored pencils.The second day will be spent learning enameling.Explore the possibilities of adding color to jewelry, sculptures and two-dimensional pieces of metal. A materials fee, amount to be announced, will be required of students.

• Joanne Conant
  
  Joanne Conant is an artist residing in Newtown, Connecticut. Enameling, oil painting, jewelry design and fabrication are among her talents. Her enameling techniques include Cloisonné, Plique-a-jour, Champleve, Grisaille, Limoges and Fauré. Joanne received a Commercial Arts Degree from the Minneapolis Technical Institute and apprenticed with enamelist Margaret Seeler. Joanne has shared her knowledge with many artists for more than thirty years, teaching classes at the Tucson Museum of Art School, Connecticut State College, Brookfield Craft Center, while also helping many private students.
  
  Joanne's pieces appear in Glass on Metal magazine (Vol 24, no. 5), Enamel Medium for Fine Art by Margaret Seeler, Enamels, Enameling, Enamelists by Glenice Lesley Matthews, The Artist's Illustrated Encyclopedia by Phil Metzger, Enameling on Metal Clay by Pam East, and Five Hundred Enameled Objects by Lark Books. Her work has received awards in many national and international shows. She has a piece in the permanent collection of the Tucson Museum of Art.

Supply list for students:

1.     Two 6”x6” sheets of 24 gauge copper

2.     Prismacolor colored pencils – your favorite colors

3.     Scrap pieces of pewter, silver or brass if you have them in your workshop

4.     Small scissors

5.     Ultra fine point sharpie marker

6.     Tracing paper and pencil

7.     2 small brushes, example: #0, #00 or #1