Joanne Conant is a multi-disciplined artist: enameling, oil painting, jewelry design and fabrication are among her talents. Her enameling techniques include Cloisonné, Plique-a-jour, Champleve, Grisaille, Limoges and Fauré. Joanne received a Commercial Arts Degree from the Minneapolis Technical Institute and apprenticed with enamellist Margaret Seeler. Joanne has shared her knowledge with many artists for more than thirty years, teaching classes at the Tucson Museum of Art School, Connecticut State College and Brookfield Craft Center, while also helping many private students. Joanne’s pieces appear in Glass on Metal magazine (Vol 24, no. 5), Enamel Medium for Fine Art by Margaret Seeler, Enamels, Enameling, Enamelists by Glenice Lesley Matthews, The Artist’s Illustrated Encyclopedia by Phil Metzger, Enameling on Metal Clay by Pam East, and Five Hundred Enameled Objects by Lark Books. Her work has received awards in many national and international shows, and she has a piece in the permanent collection of the Tucson Museum of Art.
