Studio DiBeneditto

I'm gearing up for a Small Business Saturday shop update including these foldformed enamel beauties!

If blackened fingers are any indication of a good studio session, then I had a great one last night! Texturing, soldering, and then patina on the settings of these fold formed pins. ❤

It's complete! I shipped off this ornament to the Indiana State Museum this morning! It measures roughly 15"x15"x10" and weighs about 4 pounds. I'm especially proud of how it hangs perfectly straight/balanced from the anchor point.

92 artists from each of Indiana's counties were commissioned to create a new large scale ornament for the Indiana State Museum's 25-foot tree. As you probably know, I moved to PA while my husband is in grad school, but I'm honored that the curator still wanted to work with me based on all he had found while searching for artists. In my 7 years as a Clark County resident I co-owned two businesses, help to found a community arts organization, participated in the IAC On-Ramp program and received an On-Ramp Fellowship grant, was a jurried member of the Indiana Artisan program, volunteered at countless art activities, and created many public artworks and collaborations with other artists.

Can you spot all of the Clark County imagery here?

- Hand lettered (and then laser cut) Clark County lettering
- A trilobite representing the Falls of the Ohio fossil beds in Clarksville
- A piece of driftwood from the Ohio River (gifted to me by a fellow artist)
- A section of the community mosaic that adore the NoCo Arts Center facade (the back has a detail photo from a collaborative artwork I made with the "NAC Pack")
- "The Lady" sculpture (the back has a section of the black box/ammonite fossil mural I painted in the arts district)
- The Rose Island Archway that used to greet visitors in the 1920s and 30s
- The Howard Steamboat Museum/Mansion (the back features the mosaic Dawn and I created for the second Silica location with the help of some wonderful friends - I believe this can still be seen in Preston Art Center in Jeffersonville!)
- The very back has a photo I took looking through the Paint Box Garden to the water tank mural that was the start of the crazy gorgeous Jeffersonville Arts & Cultural District.

Some other things I was trying to include that just didn't work with the composition: the Colgate clock, the river stage, the Big 4 Bridge, and roundabouts 😉