Artist To Discuss Making Wearable Inlaid Jewelry In Dunedin

DUNEDIN, FL — Artist Caitlin Albritton will host a virtual presentation titled, “Rock On: Making Wearable Inlays with Caitlin Albritton," Tuesday, March 8 at noon at the Dunedin Fine Art Center's Coffee and Conversation series.

During the presentation, sponsored by DFAC's Sterling Society, Albritton of C. Albritton Jewelry Designs will talk about transforming her figurative oil paintings into wearable, miniature figurative pendants made with silver and colorful stones.

Albritton is an interdisciplinary artist, arts writer and educator who lives and works in Tampa. She graduated cum laude from Savannah College of Art and Design with a major in painting, and received her master's of fine arts in studio art at the Maryland Institute College of Art.

She has exhibited her works in galleries and museums nationally and internationally. Her painting was featured on the cover of New American Painting South Edition in 2017; and she has been awarded an Arts Council of Hillsborough County Individual Artist Grant and a Meyerhoff You+ Graduate Fellowship.

She has been an artist-in-residence at the Morris Graves Foundation, the Golden Foundation and the Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge.

As a painter-turned-silversmith, she uses the technique of inlay to make distinct wearable paintings made of silver and stone. Inlay, the coupling of silversmith and lapidary techniques, uses small pieces of stone that are hand-cut to fit snugly into sterling silver slots — much like stained glass or mosaic — to piece together narratives through exaggerated expression. Her signature pieces are abstract female figures that explore the nuances of nonverbal communication through body language.

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