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

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. 

Anne Havel
I suffer from sensory overload and that is coupled with being an eclectic. No matter what my eyes absorb, i see a finished piece of artwork. It therefore becomes difficult for me to focus much time on one path. The world is imperfect and that is reflected in much of my work--not a perfect circle or square--rough around the edges. Even nature, which for me is the closest anything comes to perfection, manifests its “perceived flaws” in the imperfect flower, the decaying tree bark, or the mould-ridden fence-post. All these beautiful “flaws” drive my work.
All the enamel pieces I create are intended to express humor, or make a social, political, or environmental statement, while balancing the color palette I select. From my perspective, the world suffers from many injustices covering all spectrums of thought. I use my art to express and convey my ideas about the many problems and issues that literally plague our planet. 
Over the course of the last 2 ½ years my work has been included in 12 exhibitions, I have been a Niche Awards finalist in 2009 & 2010, I was a featured artist in the June 2009 article “Unexpected Enamel” in Lapidary Journal- Jewelry Artist”, and my work is currently in a five person show at Lapham Gallery of the Lower Adirondack Regional Art Council’s August 2010 exhibition “Perspectives.” 

Heidi Kreuziger

Amy Roper Lyons
Amy Roper Lyons is a studio jeweler and enamelist.  Her work expresses her love for the marvelous variety of form and color found in the natural world.  Inspired by her garden, and long walks along the seashore near her home, she creates one-of –a-kind and limited edition pieces in high-karat gold, enamels, and precious stones.  Her award-winning work has been published in magazines and books such as 500 Enameled Objects, “Lapidary Journal“, “Ornament“, and “Art Jewelry”.  Lyons’s jewelry is exhibited nationally at museums, galleries and craft shows, recently at the Smithsonian Craft Show.  Lyons has taught jewelry and enameling at the New Jersey Center for the Visual Arts, the Newark Museum, and Peter’s Valley.  She received her BFA from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA

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
Marian Slepian is a recognized master in cloisonne enamel: this ancient medium is the vehicle for her contemporary works of art. She has had solo shows in prestigious settings such as the State Museum of New Jersey and the Museum of Jewish Heritage, New York City. as well as in galleries internationally.

Slepian's commissioned site-specific installations occupy a variety of public spaces. Her works for sacred settings explore spiritual themes and include recognition/commemorative walls, sacramental wine cups and heirloom type objects.

Slepian teaches enameling regularly at the Newark Art Museum of New Jersey. Her work is featured in several books and periodicals focused on enameling, metal work, and ritual objects.

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.