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Metalsmith to give enameling workshop at GVSU
October 19, 2016
The Jewelry/Metalsmithing area will light up the torches this next week! Guest artist Anne Havel is visiting for her "In The Line Of Fire" workshop, a two-day torch fired enameling activity to occur this October 24-25.
Inspired by many of the abstract painters, space objects and creatures from her imagination, molecular level shapes, geometry, clay artists, building structures, flowers, etc, Anne Havel is an enamelist, metalsmith, and lampworker (she makes glass beads). She benefits from personal sensory issues that cause radical direction shifts.
“As a general rule, my work is an attempt at resolving the battle for brain dominance between chaos and geometry, expressing inner turbulence through abstract drawings.”, she states. Her motivation is to make people be "moved by the balance of the lines and forms, but most importantly the colors—have a visceral, soul-stirring response" If that happens, her work is done.
The appropriately named workshop has the participants use torches to cover various methods of line creation to create the imagery and feeling one is trying to convey. Successive layers of liquids & sgraffito, transparents, opaques, graphite, acid-etching, acrylic enamel lines, under/& over-firing, and more are used to build and preserve drawings in the final piece. No matter the student's skill level, there will be an opportunity to immerse oneself in new ideas and principles."
As part of her visit, Anne will also be giving a public lecture on her work Monday evening, October 24 in room 1811 Calder Arts Center. For more information on Anne's work, please visit her website at annehavel.com.
For more information about the workshop and the lecture, please contact Professors Beverly Seley in the Department of Art and Design