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All Levels (Beginners welcome)Unsure if this class is appropriate for your skill level? Contact us and find out.
Joanne Conant
JF0912 Mar 3, 2012 (10am-1:30pm) Sat (Jewelry Studio, Mill Building)
With
the price of gold at an all time high, this quick and easy technique allows you
to add gold to your jewelry at a fraction of the price. Keum-boo is a
Korean technique, also widely used in traditional Japanese and Chinese metal
work, which translates to “attached gold.” Learn how to apply 24 kt gold foil to
flat and three-dimensional pieces of silver with the use of a hot plate. There
is no studio/materials fee for this workshop, instead students are asked to
bring in their own silver pieces to be embellished and to purchase a sheet of 4”
x 4” 24 kt gold foil and a 6” x 6” sheet of 20 gauge brass. Click on the above
materials tab for more information.
  
Joanne Conant is an artist residing in Newtown, Connecticut. Enameling, oil painting, jewelry design and fabrication are among her many 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, and has been a core faculty member at Brookfield Craft Center.
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.
Students will need to purchase their own gold foil. It can be purchased
from Enamelwork Supply: 800 596-3257 or ewsco@comcast.net . The item number is
#2610 Gold foil, 4" x 4" square @ $22.50 a sheet. This is the
current price on http://www.enamelworksupply.com,
but gold prices are always changing, so call for current price.
Supply list for students:
Gold foil
small burnisher (if you already own one)
fine silver or sterling silver. Fine silver
is preferred. The silver can be in any shape - flat or dimensional.
6" x 6" sheet of 20 gauge brass
Craft Center and instructor to supply:
burnishers
hot plates
soldering tweezers
tumbler with steel shot
magnifying glass
Additional gold foil may be available for purchase
from the instructor during class.
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