Carol A. Babineau
I am a self taught artist with a background of life-long learning in various mediums. Painting, quilting, ceramics, polymer clay and other interests have led me down this path. I find that my need for color is enhanced with the addition of enamels to my work. I endeavor to assist others in their creativity and exploration of these exciting mediums.
These three pieces are a representation of my newest work. I work with Art Clay fine silver and in the making of pieces like this, I cut out the textured sections from the clay, make patterns on them and then add them back into their original places and paste them into place. I then add other features to the metal clay piece and when ready fire them in a kiln. The pieces then come out as fine silver. I tumble polish, enamel and polish again. It seems fairly simple, but is time consuming and thoroughly enjoyable.

Sheila Beatty
Artist, enamelist and jewelry maker, Sheila Beatty, brings a lifelong involvement in the visual arts (with experience in fine art, illustration and calligraphy) to the art of enameling.  Her small-scale jewelry pieces are miniature paintings, which, while mainly abstract, take inspiration from the natural world and from historical influences like Art Nouveau. The work strives to create cohesion and beauty from the disparate elements of line, form, texture, and especially color, whose vibrancy and subtlety are unique to the melding of glass and metal.

Karen L Cohen
Ms. Cohen is a computer scientist turned jewelry designer, enamelist and author. As a color person and collector of glass since grade school, Ms. Cohen started enameling to incorporate these two passions into her jewelry. She works primarily in Cloisonné because of a love of the process, and mainly uses leaded enamels for their luminosity and the depth and variety of their color. Her book, The Art of Fine Enameling, was first published in 2002.

Isabella Corwin

Arlene Egelberg
I started off with metalwork, creating jewelry that I set in colorful beads. Then, six years ago, I got the idea of adding color to the metal itself --- and stepped into the world of enamels.
I took courses in enameling. I moved from jewelry (which I still do) to wall pieces. The subject matter reflects my interest in diverse cultures and folk art.
My work has been accepted for METAMORPHOSIS, the 10th Biennial International Juried Exhibition sponsored by the Enamalist Society. I won the excellence award in enamel at the Pen and Brush 2004 Fine Craft Exhibition. I participated in the National Enamelist Guild 2004 Juried Exhibition at Maryland's Rockville Arts Place. My work has also been exhibited at the Cork Gallery of Lincoln Center, the Elsa Mott Ives Gallery, the Newark Museum, the Venezuelan Consulate, the Donnell Library, and in private collections.

Leni Fuhrman

Lois Grebe
My work involves trying to find a unity within contrasts and juxtapositions. Incorporating various textural media allows me a freedom of expression that I find stimulating as I believe all materials and all ideas are intertwined. To find the design balance between chaos and boredom is an exciting, creative endeavor. 

Felicia Liban
My collection of contemporary jewelry reflects designs and techniques I developed, using different materials, such as copper, silver and gold along with enamels and precious stones. I fashion these into traditional and non-traditions jewelry and plaques. The creation often assumes the characteristic of contemporary art trends, that represent styles which include representational and abstract art, and personal experiences.
The work submitted here, reflect the overwhelming feelings following the disaster at the World Trade Center in New York on 9/11.
Having been able to put my thoughts into ART, a calming feeling has overcome me. Using silk screening, gold and silver and palladium foils as well as painting methods, I was able to portray what had transpired. The transparent and opalescent enamels over the foils reflect the light and give the viewer the feeling of radiating heat and smoke.

Amy Roper Lyons
Amy Roper Lyons is a studio jeweler and enamellist.  Her current work expresses her love for the marvelous variety of form and color found in the insect world.  “Enamels are the perfect medium to capture their vibrant hues,” says Lyons.  She creates one-of –a-kind and limited edition pieces in 18k gold or sterling.  Lyons teaches jewelry at the New Jersey Center for the Visual Arts, and her work is exhibited nationally

Joseph A. Osina

Rita Scher
Rita Scher has been a Metal smith and Enamellist for 15 years.  She has an extensive background in jewelry design, working with precious metals and has degrees from New York University and Baruch College as well as certifications from the Revere Academy in fabrication.  Her book, “Jewelry Weaving for Everyone” now in its second edition has sold out with every printing.  She sells her jewelry designs to many fashionable shops in the New York Metropolitan area.  You can view more of her creations by clicking her name

Stell Shevis
Enameling! There is no other art form as exciting as this one. Playing with fire you might say... carefully placing a piece of copper dusted with ground glass into a glowing hot furnace. Removing it only minutes later still red hot. Watching the colors change as it cools is a revelation. The fire and the chemistry make their own adjustments to my creation.
Many layers are carefully built up... transparentsover opaques or over pure gold or silver foil, firing between each addition. As many as 22 firings on a large panel to achieve the final rich effect. I usually work on several pieces at a time so that when my kiln is heated up to 1500°  I can do all my firings in an hour or so. There are so many different techniques that the possibilities are endless.
I don't strive for perfection... I like to see signs of the struggle, the effects of the fire, the hands of the maker. Machines can produce perfection but leave no trace of the human touch.

Marjorie Simon
My long-time infatuation with enamel and the possibilities of laying down a cloak of glass on metal came to fruition when I began torch-firing three-dimensional forms in 1995. My desire to burn out selective areas was facilitated by the torch and by using only red until I had achieved some control over the medium. I remain primarily a jeweler and this work is all about jewelry.

The botanicals grew out of two simultaneous impulses. While sidelined from my workbench with a rotator cuff injury, I spent several months peering into my microscope, making detailed pen and ink drawings of plant life. I then experimented with paper forms using origami and kirigami, eventually incorporating ancient Egyptian and Greek floral motifs I had observed in the British Museum. I have continued to explore floral and botanical themes with a nod to their history in jewelry and the decorative arts.

Marian Slepian

Janice Spillane
Janice Spillane started her career as a critical care nurse working in an environment that was largely black and white. To counteract the sterile perspective she began buying and then wearing wonderfully colored jewelry to provide a bright spot in an otherwise monotonous environment. She looked for pieces that told stories of hope and of joy. Her patients and their families often commented how much they loved her jewelry.
She spent a great deal of her nursing career helping people through hands-on care or by developing and managing health care oversight programs for both the private and government sectors to assure that patients received the best possible acre. 
While president of a multimillion-dollar company she decided to make her own jewelry and started attending jewelry art workshops. Now more than 15 years and 20 plus classes later she expresses her love of color and expression using hot glass — enamels and fused glass — and handmade paper. 
She continues telling stories in her current position as an editor for the largest nursing magazine in the US and as a part time multimedia artist. She uses small enamels and fused glass to draw the eye and to add color and depth to much larger works. Through her art, which often incorporates collage, she continues tell stories about life, hope, and humanity. 
Janice’s work has been shown at the East End Art League, at the Enameling Guild Northeast Conferences, and as part of collaborative works that grace the wall of Children’s Hospitals in the Northeast.

Toni Strassler
The beauty of cloisonné enameling was first revealed to Toni Strassler as a student writing about Byzantine reliquaries. Several years later, she seized the opportunity to learn ancient techniques at the Jewelry Arts Academy (formerly Kulicke and Stark). Often combining cloisonné enamels with stones or beads, her jewelry reflects an appreciation of nature and past art. Subjects include landscapes, architecture, flowers, objects, and sometimes geometric and abstract themes.

Patricia L White
Coming from a career as a bridal headpiece designer, I learned to look in all directions for a new idea. Turning to the jewelry arts, offered me an opportunity to expand my metal smith experience into crowns and tiaras.
Adding to that the art of applying glass on metal and my designs were richly enhanced with a look of elegance and vivid color.
Since then, enameling has become a big part of my life and so has mix media.
Of all the techniques offered, I fell in love with Cut and Saw Champleve shown in the two mythical animals below.  The  Pansy pendant employs the Cloisonne style and the use of a peyote stitch to create the bezel.