Studio DiBeneditto

Finally getting in studio time for the first time in MONTHS! I'm busy with all kinds of good things (mural painting, visiting with family and friends, teaching classes, working at the day job, etc) but I realized that I've had the same project sitting on my workbench since May 15th! 🤯

Well, here I come, ready to finish those 50ish pairs of enameled plant eyeballs that have been waiting on me for 4 months!

I LOVE the time I spend exploring, creating, teaching and being inspired in the Contemporary Craft studios in Pittsburgh/Lawrenceville, PA. Check out this Pittsburgh Today Live segment where I helped David Highfield make an enameled keychain!

Lawrenceville's Contemporary Crafts is the best place to explore your creativity If you love creating something beautiful, artistic and fun, Contemporary Crafts in Lawrenceville is the place for you! PTL's David Highfield checks it out and creates and one-of-a-kind PTL keepsake.

These are two of my favorite designs from 2022. The brooch was a one of a kind birthday gift for my mom and the earrings were part of a very small batch of designs. Each of these will be the inspiration for new collections of work this year.

Which do you think should come first? Fold formed leaves/botanicals with gemstones or bold, layered patterns?

Jennie's Creative Adventures: Technique 3 of 12 - encaustic painting!

What an amazing class today! I took an intro to encaustic workshop with at and, man, did we have fun!

I loved the process and the color and the texture and all the various techniques Michele taught us, but we also had a wonderful group of creatives in this workshop. We all learned from each other as we circled the big worktable we set up.

If you're keeping track, I set a goal to try 12 new techniques and/or mediums in 2023. This is creative adventure #3!

My Birthday sale runs through Sunday if you're looking for any colorful jewelry or plant eyeballs in your life :)

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20% off entire order at www.StudioDiBeneditto.com/shop with code "HBD2023" at checkout. Items from past collections are already marked 25-50% off so there are some great deals on handcrafted pieces!!!

Its time for my annual Birthday Sale! Save 20% at StudioDiBeneditto.com and DiBsCreative.Etsy.com through Jan 22nd, 2023.

Birthday Sale! It's time for my annual birthday sale - which means colorful savings for YOU!

I'm gearing up for a Small Business Saturday shop update including these foldformed enamel beauties!

If blackened fingers are any indication of a good studio session, then I had a great one last night! Texturing, soldering, and then patina on the settings of these fold formed pins. ❤

It feels good to be working in my studio again! For various reasons I haven't really worked on my metals/enameled pieces since my Contemporary Craft residency ended in September. October was focused on the Clark County ornament commission and being busy at work, but im reclaiming my evenings for studio time!

The fold formed enamel brooches are the first pieces I'm completing. The pieces will be tab set in copper, but I'm soldering on little silver discs stamped with my initials. Can't wait to get these finished and shared with you all!

It's complete! I shipped off this ornament to the Indiana State Museum this morning! It measures roughly 15"x15"x10" and weighs about 4 pounds. I'm especially proud of how it hangs perfectly straight/balanced from the anchor point.

92 artists from each of Indiana's counties were commissioned to create a new large scale ornament for the Indiana State Museum's 25-foot tree. As you probably know, I moved to PA while my husband is in grad school, but I'm honored that the curator still wanted to work with me based on all he had found while searching for artists. In my 7 years as a Clark County resident I co-owned two businesses, help to found a community arts organization, participated in the IAC On-Ramp program and received an On-Ramp Fellowship grant, was a jurried member of the Indiana Artisan program, volunteered at countless art activities, and created many public artworks and collaborations with other artists.

Can you spot all of the Clark County imagery here?

- Hand lettered (and then laser cut) Clark County lettering
- A trilobite representing the Falls of the Ohio fossil beds in Clarksville
- A piece of driftwood from the Ohio River (gifted to me by a fellow artist)
- A section of the community mosaic that adore the NoCo Arts Center facade (the back has a detail photo from a collaborative artwork I made with the "NAC Pack")
- "The Lady" sculpture (the back has a section of the black box/ammonite fossil mural I painted in the arts district)
- The Rose Island Archway that used to greet visitors in the 1920s and 30s
- The Howard Steamboat Museum/Mansion (the back features the mosaic Dawn and I created for the second Silica location with the help of some wonderful friends - I believe this can still be seen in Preston Art Center in Jeffersonville!)
- The very back has a photo I took looking through the Paint Box Garden to the water tank mural that was the start of the crazy gorgeous Jeffersonville Arts & Cultural District.

Some other things I was trying to include that just didn't work with the composition: the Colgate clock, the river stage, the Big 4 Bridge, and roundabouts 😉

It's the big assembly weekend for my oversized Clark County Indiana ornament. Each element is on its own layer and at first the backs of each were blank... but I LOVE color and wanted to include a bit more of the bold artwork I love in Jeffersonville! So, with the help of a print shop up the street from me I made some vinyl photo prints to adorn the back of each piece.

"The Lady" sculpture -> my ammonite fossil mural in

The NoCo community mosaic -> detail of a "happy accident texture" on a collaborative art project by the original NAC Pack!

The Howard Steamboat Mansion /Museum -> poppy mosaic by in the old Silica (now )

Sky background -> The Paint Box Garden next to the watertank mural in NoCo!