Cloisonné Enameling & Haiku
Frog on Lily Pad #9, 2023. Copper, enamel, silver spinning, enameling, fabrication, casting.
Cloisonné enameling is essentially drawing with wires and filling in around them with glass. Several processes will be discussed and demonstrated, but cloisonné will be the primary technique covered. It can be simple or complex. Everyone will learn how to use Harlan's special jig for forming repetitive shapes in cloisonné. Participants in this workshop will also be composing haiku poems as a means to focus, relax, and foster a sense of community. Basic metalsmithing/jewelry skills and some enameling experience would be helpful, but beginners are welcome.
Harlan W. Butt (he/him) is an artist with more than forty years of experience working in metal and enamel. His work has been exhibited internationally and is represented in the permanent collections of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Renwick Gallery, the Metal Museum in Memphis, the Crocker Art Museum, the National Gallery of Australia, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, among others.