PCC: Tell us a little about yourself
EST: My parents were makers: my mother worked with textiles and my father with wood. Fast forward through fine arts degree and many years of teaching middle school art, I took a workshop at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts with Ellen Weiske on using unusual materials for jewelry making. After a week with textile, paper, plastic, rubber and wood, it was the tin that resonated with me. I went home and created a metals studio in my home.PCC: What do you create?
EST: Using humble materials, I make mostly tin jewelry using traditional techniques.
PCC: What made you want to become an artist/fall in love with your craft?
PCC: Tell us about your process. What materials do you use?
EST: My craft is all about the tin. I get tin dropped off on my porch, at garage sales and flea markets, olive oil cans from restaurants and from ethnic sections of grocery stores, I take the tin open them up and start cutting.
PCC How do we find you?
EST:www.etsy.com/shop/eaststreettins
www.facebook.com/EastStreetTins
www.pinterest.com/eaststreettins/
www.flickr.com/photos/100796279@N05/
www.eaststreetpins.blogspot.com/
vimeo.com/35467991
Featured:
Metalsmithing by Jinks McGrath published by Barron's Educational
Plank Road Magazine Summer 2012
Check out this video about Betsy and her designs produced by Amanda Marzullo:
(see more of Amanda's films here: http://vimeo.com/amandamarzullo)
If Video doesn't work, see it here: http://vimeo.com/35467991
More Designs we love from East Street Tins:
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Honored to be here, thanks so much.
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