{"id":1736,"date":"2015-02-24T22:18:42","date_gmt":"2015-02-24T22:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/metalwerx\/?p=1736"},"modified":"2015-02-24T22:18:42","modified_gmt":"2015-02-24T22:18:42","slug":"student-spotlight-chuck-tramontana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/metalwerx\/2015\/02\/24\/student-spotlight-chuck-tramontana\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Spotlight: Chuck Tramontana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chuck Tramontana is devoting serious studio time to silversmithing, gold granulation, and enameling, and feels he has only just begun.\u00a0 Chuck retired in 2007 after a long and successful career mostly devoted to fine silver, beginning, after his graduation from the Cleveland Institute of Art, as a designer with the Reed &amp; Barton Silver Company.\u00a0 From there he moved on to become the Assistant Design Director of the Gorham Silver Company, where he was eventually promoted to Director of Design for the Gorham Company\u2019s silver, china and crystal divisions. From 1983 until his retirement, Chuck was the Senior Vice President \/ Design Director and a principal of Nachtmann USA, which designs and manufactures German fine crystal for all of the major US brands \u2013 Waterford, Lenox, Tiffany, Steuben, Gorham, Reed &amp; Barton and others. \u00a0Now, he&#8217;s coming home to metals.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metalwerx.com\/blog\/Tramontana-Heaven's-Gate.jpg\" alt=\"Heaven's Gate\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em><strong>Heaven&#8217;s Gate<\/strong> by Chuck Tramontana<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Chuck graduated from the C.I.A. with a BFA in Industrial Design and a minor in silversmithing.\u00a0 In both fields, he studied under some of the most renowned masters \u2013 Viktor Schrekengost in Industrial Design, and Frederick Miller and John Paul Miller in metalsmithing.\u00a0 In 1964 and \u201965 he earned first place awards in the National Student Silver Design Competition.\u00a0 Chuck writes, \u201cFred Miller and John Paul Miller were phenomenal teachers [as well as] life-long mentors and dear friends.\u201d\u00a0 When he retired, he wanted to try to work in the gold granulation technique in which John Paul Miller was internationally recognized as a master artisan.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metalwerx.com\/blog\/Tramontana-Lunar-Ebb-Tide.jpg\" alt=\"Lunar Ebb Tide\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em><strong>Lunar Ebb Tide<\/strong> by Chuck Tramontana<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Chuck discovered Metalwerx when he met Director Lindsay Minihan at CraftBoston, and took a <strong>Gold Granulation<\/strong> workshop with Ronda Coryell in our <strong>Summer With the Masters<\/strong> program in 2007.\u00a0 He has returned to Metalwerx for classes in enameling, including another master workshop with Linda Darty, and is now looking forward to workshops with Cynthia Eid, and Joanne Conant, who will be teaching <strong>Granulation on Enamel<\/strong> in March \u2014 which is right up Chuck&#8217;s alley.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metalwerx.com\/blog\/Tramontana-Monarch-Butterfly-with-gold-granulation.jpg\" alt=\"Monarch Butterfly\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em><strong>Monarch Butterfly<\/strong>\u00a0with gold granulation by Chuck Tramontana<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Chuck is currently a Trustee of the Attleboro Arts Museum, where he also curates exhibitions, and where the work shown here was recently on display in a Member\u2019s Exhibition. Chuck writes, \u201cI am light years from the level of excellence I desire to achieve but am so very grateful to have the very fine quality of teaching and support staff at Metalwerx for renewed studies.\u201d \u00a0We at Metalwerx applaud Chuck for the amibition of the goal he has set for himself, and always welcome him to our classroom!<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metalwerx.com\/blog\/Tramontana-On-display.jpg\" alt=\"Member's Exhibition\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>On display at the Attleboro Arts Museum<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chuck Tramontana is devoting serious studio time to silversmithing, gold granulation, and enameling, and feels he has only just begun.\u00a0 Chuck retired in 2007 after a long and successful career mostly devoted to fine silver, beginning, after his graduation from the Cleveland Institute of Art, as a designer with the Reed &amp; Barton Silver Company.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":143,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/metalwerx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1736"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/metalwerx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/metalwerx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/metalwerx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/143"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/metalwerx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1736"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/metalwerx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1744,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/metalwerx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1736\/revisions\/1744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/metalwerx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/metalwerx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/metalwerx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}