Sherie Gage

Sherie Gage is an enamel and ceramic artist and designer, and the owner of Cone 6 Designs. She is a local Connecticut Artist. The focus of her work is making handcrafted urns and keepsakes by integrating ceramics, metal working, vitreous enamel, and digital photography into thoughtfully and skillfully made urns.  When Sherie began her art business, Cone 6 Designs, in 2013 she began developing her art and designing jewelry and other functional objects working with both enamel and ceramics. Enamel is glass formulated to be fired onto metal, similar to glaze on ceramics which also creates a layer of smooth glass when fired onto ceramics. Sherie uses similar techniques to work with both types of media and combines them into her unique ceramic urns. Her interest as an artist is in technique, workmanship, and how the materials interact. Recently she has been working with images she photographs of botanicals and insects which are fired onto the surface of both enamel, and ceramics. She is interested in environmental issues as well as botanical and biological imagery. She received a bachelor’s in fine arts from the University of Connecticut in 2008 with an emphasis in sculpture. She has since taught art to people of all ages, in the public schools, and in community art centers, and currently works at CT State Manchester Community College as the technical assistant for the Visual Fine Art department.