Peace on Dutchman Flat by Alisa Looney

Wall Piece

Pre-enameled blackboard- porcelain enamel on steel, Liquid form porcelain enamel, Watercolor enamel

Granular spray & sgraffito, Watercolor enamel & sgraffito, Kiln-fired in layers

Panel: 4 x 4 inches; Custom Shadowbox Frame 5.5 x 5.5 x 1.5 inches

Best known for her award winning outdoor sculptures, Alisa Looney has exhibited in the U.S. and Canada. Her work is in a multitude of private and public collections, including Maryhill Museum of Art in WA, and several cities in the Northwest United States. Her enamel sculptures have exhibited in The Enamelist Society’s International Biennial Exhibitions – Alchemy 4 - 7, and have been published in GRAINS OF GLASS, A global community of Enamel Artists, and The Art of Fine Enameling, Second Ed. Alisa has taught enameling at the Carpenter Art Enamel Foundation, and online with TES, Silvera Jewelry School and Pocosin Arts. She fell in love with metal arts as a silver smith in her early years, received her BFA from Boise State University in 1983, owned a graphic design and illustration business, and began welding in 1998. Alisa returned to Idaho in 2010 to study enameling with John Killmaster. This allowed her to merge metal sculpture and narrative imagery into her most complex and magical work to date. Alisa and her husband, woodblock printer Wade Womack, share River Art Adventures Studio in Bend, Oregon, where they each maintain an independent studio practice, contract commissions for private and public placement, and enjoy teaching their respective mediums.

The purpose of my work is to inspire care for our planet and each other, and to bring attention to the interdependence of all living things.

I shape and fabricate metal into open, flowing forms, portraying movement and the expression of life. Narrative imagery is fused to the metal surface of sculptures, jewelry, panels and reEnamelware by applying kiln-fired layers of glass enamel.