{"title":"Nash Quinn","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eNash Quinn is a metalsmith who specializes in pattern-formed enameled vessels and small-scale mechanisms.  Originally from Wyoming, he received his BFA from the University of Wyoming, and his MFA from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania.  He works with a variety of traditional materials, including copper, enamel, and sterling silver, and his work is about joy - the simple joy he experiences in design, process, and craft.  He hopes that the objects he makes can carry that joy, and transmit a bit of it to others. At HCCC, he plans to explore the boundaries of the pattern-formed vessel format. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eNash teaches, lectures, and exhibits his work at craft schools, jewelry academies, and universities nationwide.  He was a professor of jewelry and metalsmithing at Rowan University and Munson Williams Proctor Arts Institute, and has taught workshops at Peters Valley School of Craft, Creative Side Jewelry Academy, and Haystack Mountain School of Craft, among many others.  His work has been featured in exhibitions including \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e40 Under 40: The Next Generation \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eat the National Ornamental Metal Museum, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eImagine Peace Now, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ecreated by Boris Bally, as well as \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ePhiladelphia: Then and Now 1950-2019 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eand \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eRINGS!, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eboth organized by Helen Drutt.  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eNotes from the Artist\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMy work is about joy.  It’s about the joy of a bead of solder slowly being drawn into a silver seam, coaxed along its journey by the gentle flame of a torch.  It’s about the joy of a handmade mechanism that clicks into place with audible precision.  It’s about the joy of a sugary layer of enamel trading molecules with its copper substrate as it fuses into glass.  I find joy in the careful fitment of complex parts, in unexpected errors and their eventual solutions, and in the slow realization of ambitious ideas.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eI want everything I make, be it a piece of functional jewelry, an absurd mechanical toy, or an elegant enameled vessel, to be an affirmation of joy.  In the end, I hope the objects I make can hold and carry the gratification I receive in making them, and transmit a bit of it to others.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"www.nashquinn.com\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ewww.nashquinn.com\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[],"url":"https:\/\/shopashergallery.com\/collections\/nash-quinn.oembed","provider":"Asher: Off the Wall at Houston Center for Contemporary Craft","version":"1.0","type":"link"}