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Pricing Information:
Jewelry and Small Object Pricing:
Prices range from $22 - $1,000, with most works available in the $50-$150 range.
Metalworking and Jewelry Fabrication Classes:
Group and private classes and workshops in metalworking /jewelry making are available by contacting the artist directly, and vary in cost and duration. Class sizes are kept small and offer plenty of individualized attention to each student. Current class offerings are listed on Nancy Lee's website at http://www.ndesignsmetal.com/classes/
Private instruction or consultation starting at $25 an hour with a three-hour minimum.
Group classes are currently available through the Indianapolis Art Center. A typical 7-week class is $230 for members and $240 for non-members. Most tools are provided by the Art Center. Most materials and consumable supplies are not included.
Gift Certificates:
Gift certificates are available for classes (pricing varies) and private instruction ($75 minimum for private instruction) jewelry and objects (pricing from $50 and up).
Artist Statement/Bio:
My work is an experiment in emotion and hope, informed by everything I have ever experienced or imagined visually, aurally, viscerally, spiritually.
A leaf.
A sewer grate.
A vision.
A surprise.
What story in these can be expressed in metal?
What structure fabricated by human hand dares to inform the formless?
Can form create emotion?
Do I risk answers?
Nancy Lee is a contemporary designer and accomplished metalsmith working in copper, silver, brass and gold. Her adventures in Metalsmithing began ten years ago at the Indianapolis Art Center (Indianapolis, IN) where she enrolled in Marilyn Smith’s Jewelry class to learn to make sterling findings for polymer clay beads she had created. She fell in love with the plastic qualities of metal and has been hooked since. Her work is now recognized for its minimalist style, body-conscious architecture and attention to detail. Work sometimes includes unusual semi-precious gemstones and found objects. Techniques include etching, heat-treatments, and various patinas to bring warmth and color to the metal.
Lee was raised in a small Midwest town in Illinois, where she enjoyed a childhood of unlocked screen doors, playing alone or with her two sisters along nearby railroad tracks and clear streams at the edge of town. Her early propensity for art led her mother to enroll her in private art lessons at the tender age of eight years old, forming a basis of art fundamentals she utilizes to this day. She is the daughter of Lee and Roseanne Sherman of Georgetown, Illinois. Lee attended Danville Area College and Parkland College, where she studied biology and planned to teach at the secondary grade level. Lee currently resides in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Affiliations:
Member, Society of North American Goldsmiths (SNAG)
Member, Society of American Silversmiths
Faculty Member, Indianapolis Art Center
Awards:
First Place, Indiana State Fair, Sculpture, Professional Division
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