{"id":34825,"date":"2015-07-20T03:59:18","date_gmt":"2015-07-20T07:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/utnews.utoledo.edu\/?p=34825"},"modified":"2015-07-15T12:50:33","modified_gmt":"2015-07-15T16:50:33","slug":"modernist-jeweler-to-feature-colorful-work-at-art-on-the-mall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/07_20_2015\/modernist-jeweler-to-feature-colorful-work-at-art-on-the-mall","title":{"rendered":"Modernist jeweler to feature colorful work at Art on the Mall"},"content":{"rendered":"

As Jane Lamanna settled into her chair, she adjusted her ivory crescent necklace, just one of many pieces she\u2019s fashioned throughout her career. <\/p>\n

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Lamanna<\/p><\/div>The jeweler constructs a variety of colorful pieces, but her favorite ones to create are earrings.<\/p>\n

\u201cI do make a lot of earrings; I like to wear them,\u201d she said, gesturing to a dangly pair on her own ears. \u201cFor me, it\u2019s fun to make two of the same \u2014 pairs are always fun to make. <\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t make tons of bracelets probably because I don\u2019t like to wear them,\u201d she added with a laugh. <\/p>\n

Inspired by midcentury modernist jewelers, much of Lamanna\u2019s work features clean lines and shapes that relate well to the body.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I\u2019m thinking of how to make my jewelry, I like it to be clean and comfortable to wear and colorful \u2014 that\u2019s the other thing that really inspires me,\u201d she said. \u201cSome of my newer pieces that feature color resin are more fun for me because I\u2019m mixing the color myself to get just the right one.\u201d <\/p>\n

But long before color mixing, Lamanna starts with a sketch where she formulates her idea and scales it to a size that she would want to wear. From there, she cuts sheet metal with a tiny saw blade and forms it to create the style she wants. <\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s soldering, sawing, filing, sanding; lots and lots of cleanup so it looks snappy,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n

\"Lamanna<\/a>Working with the metal is her favorite part of jewelry making, but mixing the colors to create resin is a close second. It takes her two days to tinker with the colors \u2014 blending and mixing the different hues to get just the right shade. <\/p>\n

Sometimes while mixing, Lamanna creates a color she never intended to that works for the piece: \u201cIt\u2019s a great surprise when that happens.\u201d <\/p>\n

She sells her jewelry at many art fairs and venues, including Art on the Mall, where she will be one of more than 100 exhibitors Sunday, July 26, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on UT\u2019s Centennial Mall. Her work also is featured at the Toledo Museum of Art\u2019s gift shop. <\/p>\n

A number of her wearable works will be featured at the free, juried event. <\/p>\n

\"Lamanna<\/a>\u201cI\u2019m still in the process of creating pieces for [Art on the Mall],\u201d she said. \u201cThere\u2019s going to be tons of earrings and some new styles of necklaces and everything. There should be new colors and styles of resin. All sorts of new things \u2014 clean and colorful.\u201d <\/p>\n

For Lamanna, jewelry making is a family affair that started with her grandfather in the 1940s and 1950s. He owned a jewelry shop in Manhattan, where Lamanna\u2019s grandmother and aunts helped string pearls, she recalled. Since then, there have been many family members who owned shops or created their own pieces. <\/p>\n

While Lamanna never got the chance to work with her grandfather because he passed away while she was very young, she feels he lives through her today. Many of his tools were passed down to her, and she uses them for her own work. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s funny, I have an old design book \u2014 kind of like a reference book \u2014 of his. A couple years ago I was flipping through that and found that he had made little sketches and notes. I felt like he was talking to me through that,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n

When she\u2019s not creating or selling pieces of jewelry, Lamanna can be found teaching others how to make it at the Toledo Museum of Art. She teaches beginning, intermediate and advanced fabrication classes, which guides students through the process of cutting sheet metal and wire to building something \u2014 a job she finds highly rewarding. <\/p>\n

\u201cI just really, really love teaching.\u201d <\/p>\n

Ever since taking classes in college, Lamanna said she has known jewelry making is where she belongs. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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