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About the artist

Sue Lacy is a jewelry artist and metalsmith living in Dublin, OH. She creates original designs from copper, sterling and fine silver, 14k gold, and gemstones. Her favorite projects use a wide range of metalsmith techniques and are completely hand crafted, right down to basic components like earring wires, chain, and clasps.

Signature looks? Mixed metals, especially copper with silver. Organic designs that are stylish, comforting, and earth-beautiful.

Sue has four lively daughters and a husband who keeps her laughing. She enjoys art, gardening, biking, and kayaking. Metal work is her favorite form of play.

Sue is an alumnus of The Ohio State University and received metalsmith instruction at Columbus College of Art and Design. In July 2011 she learned the art of fold forming from its inventor, world-renowned master goldsmith Charles Lewton-Brain, at the Center for Metal Arts in New York. At Charles' request, Sue created and administers the official FaceBook page for the fold forming community at www.facebook.com/foldforming.

2011 Winterfair Scholarship for Emerging Artists

Winterfair is Columbus, Ohio's premier juried fine arts and craft fair. Over 400 artists from 32 states participated in 2010. Each year, two emerging artists are awarded scholarships to participate in the show. Sue is honored to receive the Columbus Winterfair 2011 Scholarship for Emerging Artists.

Member, Etsy Team Columbus

This team is comprised of over 60 talented, local Columbus artists with work in many art mediums, including jewelry, pottery, photography, textiles, mosaics, painting, and much more. Click here to visit the team blog.

Member, Ohio Designer Craftsmen

A not-for-profit organization with over 2100 members, one of its programs is the Ohio Craft Museum. "Our mission is to promote the fine crafts aesthetic by establishing a standard of excellence, encouraging creative growth, providing professional support to craft artists, and building public awareness, appreciation and collection of fine craft." Visit the web site here.

Tributes, Acknowledgments

Harry Reminick, memories and inspiration
Excerpt from blog post March 30, 2012

My Uncle Harry lived in San Diego, CA while I was growing up in Cleveland, OH. He would fly back to Ohio every couple of years to visit family. It wasn’t nearly often enough, but when he did, it was a big event.

Uncle Harry was everyone’s favorite relative. He was fun and funny, outdoorsy and creative. He was a kind, gentle peacemaker; the type to carry a spider safely out of the house. In fact I remember him rescuing a few from me. He was an artist – sculpture, painting, a bit of jewelry – and worked for the San Diego Art Museum. The profession seemed surreal to me and unbelievably cool. I enjoyed his penchant for sharing art and culture with the family. He helped shape the way I see the world today.

I was recently delighted to find a poster by my uncle that’s out of copyright and currently available for sale at various poster supply houses. I didn't know he had made it into pop culture! As part of the Works Project Administration's Federal Art Project (FAP), he was commissioned to create a poster for the theatre production of the Emperor’s New Clothes.

Harry Reminick Sep 7, 1937

"The WPA's Federal Art Project ... brought the avant-garde into small-town America, and started an aesthetic revolution ... FAP employed 5,000 artists across the country... They created murals, sculptures and paintings, taught community art classes to millions, and produced 2 million posters from 35,000 designs..." (Civilization Magazine, Apr/May 1997)

A Library of Congress (LC) write-up features 16 of those posters, one of which is his. The LC record for it is here. The piece is dated Sep 7, 1937, so he was just 24 years old at the time.

These beautiful pieces of jewelry were created by Harry Reminick over the years too, and are my keepsakes to remember him by:

I love owning these few pieces of his jewelry and I often wonder what he might say about mine. I have a long way to go, but I think he would be pleased to see me working at it.

Although he is long gone, I still feel close to him as I enjoy things he shared with me. Listening to the Nutcracker Suite. Reading Desiderata (attached for your enjoyment.) Watching birds at my backyard feeder. Last winter I was able to visit the San Diego Art Museum and stand inside the place he worked for so long. It was a nice little connection across the years.

Harry Reminick, 1913 - 1981

...click to read Desiderata

Acknowledgements

Charles Lewton-Brain: world-renowned goldsmith and educator who is also part MacGyver, part Mythbusters, and part Leonardo da Vinci... for an amazing 35 hours of instruction on fold forming in July 2011 at Center for Metal Arts in Florida, New York.
Sharilyn Miller: author of Bead on a Wire and former editor of Belle Armoire Magazine, for her wonderful classes on the fundamentals of wire-wrapping.
Sharon Abood: talented jewelry designer, Delaware Ohio, for a skilled and passionate introduction to metalsmith fundamentals. Sharon passed away in October 2011, and I miss her terribly. I could not have asked for a better mentor and friend.
Kelly Malec-Kosak: Associate Professor, Columbus College of Art and Design, for continued metalsmith instruction.
Kathy Robinson: talented daughter, for expertly modeling SueLacy Designs jewelry in publicity photo shoots.