Michele Mitcavish
glass, paint, metal, jewelry
of M. Mitcavish Fine Art & Glass Studio
Sawyer Tannery, 68 Coombs, Studio O #1
Napa, CA
(707) 363-7177
mitcavish@comcast.net
www.mitcavish.net

 

INTRODUCTION
Artist Michele Mitcavish presents: Handcrafted glass dishware & jewelry, inspired by patterns in nature. Glass craftsmanship for custom projects, including stained glass restoration, contemporary architectural glass art, glass casting, fusing, etc. Small hands-on classes in beadmaking, glass mosaic, stained glass, fusing, slumping, casting. And an online gallery of original fine art: paintings, photography & sculpture.

BIO
Michele Mitcavish was born in Michigan, where she received her BFA degree in oil painting. She also spent two summers abroad landscape painting in southern France. Upon completing her degree, she relocated to upstate New York and taught landscape painting and drawing in the community. Moving back to Michigan, she started a five year relationship with a local glass company and became enamored with glass, learning multiple techniques and teaching the public. After one more move to the San Francisco Bay Area, Michele worked for an architectural glass company, assisting in transcribing art into glass and fabricating numerous large-scale projects. She now runs her own studio in Napa, working on multiple glass projects and manages her own line of dishware.

Michele's dishware is made with lead-free glass, made in the U.S.A. Each dish is individually handcrafted by fusing, sandblasting and slumping in 1400+ degree kiln. Her sandblasted patterns are energetic, but kept elegant by simplicity of color. Responsive to human tactility, she loves to create objects that can be touched and used in a home for years to come.

Her current direction in fine art is comprised of a mixture of glass, paint, and metals. In her words: "Nature and its wonders have always been a key ingredient to my work. I like to notice the things people walk by everyday, a crack in the sidewalk or a decaying automobile. Beauty can be found in the smallest most insignificant things. My emotional side has always dictated the colors and the fluidity of the brush stroke I use. Glass is a bit harder to express ones self in a fluid manner, so painting really helps get the ideas out immediately. As time goes on and my life changes with the ebbs and flows so will my artwork."

Michele has spent the last 20 years accumulating multiple techniques, ideas, and skills and is now currently passing on her wealth of experience in intimate small class settings around the Bay Area.

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