{"id":45,"date":"2009-01-19T06:49:07","date_gmt":"2009-01-19T12:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/coldspringstudio\/about\/"},"modified":"2009-01-19T06:49:07","modified_gmt":"2009-01-19T12:49:07","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/coldspringstudio\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About Cold Spring Studio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Cold Spring Studio\" href=\"http:\/\/coldspringstudio.com\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><a title=\"Cold Spring Studio\" href=\"http:\/\/coldspringstudio.com\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10\" src=\"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/coldspringstudio\/files\/2009\/01\/csslogogray_web_small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"64\" height=\"79\" \/><\/a><a title=\"Cold Spring Studio Home\" href=\"http:\/\/coldspringstudio.com\" target=\"_blank\">Cold Spring Studio<\/a>, conceived in 2004, is a professional art studio in Maine dedicated to providing one of a kind, beautiful, and functional jewelry, vessels, and other objects.\u00a0 Areas of special focus\u00a0include mokume-gane, mixed media, unusual metals and woods.\u00a0 Special attention is given to responsible use of resources, respect for the artisan community, and service to the customer.<\/p>\n<p><em>Mokume-gane, <\/em>or &#8220;wood-grain metal&#8221; is a rare specialty in the world of the metalsmith, a life-giving material and a fuel for the artist&#8217;s creativity.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>All mokume-gane is made in the studio beginning with pure metals.\u00a0 Patina recipes are made from their basic ingredients.\u00a0 More information on mokume, its history, creation, patterning, and coloring can be seen at <a href=\"http:\/\/coldspringstudio.com\">Cold Spring Studio.<\/a><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/coldspringstudio\/files\/2009\/01\/headshotbw.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/coldspringstudio\/files\/2009\/01\/headshotbw.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"73\" height=\"132\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\n<h3>Edward Simkins<\/h3>\n<p>During his liberal education at the University of Rochester, Ted studied art, architecture, writing, film and biology.\u00a0 He later received his DVM from Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine.\u00a0 Also an experienced\u00a0woodworker, he creates furniture in the studio during his spare time.\u00a0 Mokume gane became a focus of intensive\u00a0study after realizing the creative freedom and\u00a0transformative nature of this wonderful material.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cold Spring Studio, conceived in 2004, is a professional art studio in Maine dedicated to providing one of a kind, beautiful, and functional jewelry, vessels, and other objects.\u00a0 Areas of special focus\u00a0include mokume-gane, mixed media, unusual metals and woods.\u00a0 Special attention is given to responsible use of resources, respect for the artisan community, and service [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/coldspringstudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/coldspringstudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/coldspringstudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/coldspringstudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/coldspringstudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/coldspringstudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/coldspringstudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45\/revisions\/49"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/coldspringstudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}