糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Welcomes Cappy Counard as Featured artWORKs Artist for Spring 2024
糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock鈥檚 School of Art and Design will host Cappy Counard for a lecture and artist workshop as part of the artWORKS series.
Counard鈥檚 lecture, 鈥淪hifting Perspective,鈥� will take place Friday, Feb. 9, at 6 p.m. in the Windgate Center for Art and Design, Room 101. The workshop, 鈥淪um and Substance,鈥� will be held in the Windgate Center for Art and Design on Feb. 9 and 10, 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Counard is an alumna of Southern Illinois University at Carbondale with a master鈥檚 degree in fine arts, and she also holds a bachelor鈥檚 degree of science in art from the University of Wisconsin – Madison. Currently living in Edinboro, Pennsylvania, Counard has been a professor of metals and jewelry at Edinboro University for the past 20 years.
Counard鈥檚 work has been featured in several books, including 鈥淣arrative Jewelry,鈥� 鈥淏ehind the Brooch,鈥� and SNAG Jams 2019. She lectures and exhibits throughout the United States and has curated and been featured in exhibitions at several museums.
Inspired by interpersonal connection and relationships, Counard creates jewelry and sculptural objects. Through her art, she aims to capture our human ability to connect and evolve. Her love for teaching and building community informs her practice and contributes to the concepts she explores in her work.
The workshop will explore the conceptual and technical possibilities that objects hold, discussing the prominence of the qualities of the objects we are drawn to. The malleability of metal will be surveyed with the technique of chasing and repousse, while the technique of forging will explore altering mass and line.
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The workshop has limited enrollment, and registration is required. For more information, contact Lydia Martin at [email protected].