The Almost Lost Art of Scagliola: Melissa Vogley Woods

Multidisciplinary artist Melissa Vogley Woods, currently Visiting Professor of Art at Dennison University, gives an Artist Talk about how she incorporates scagliola--creating surfaces that look like marble--in her work.
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Support for the exhibition has been provided by the George and Dollie L. Zimpfer Memorial Fund of the Fairfield County Foundation, The Fox Foundation, Ohio Humanities, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Federal CARES Act of 2020.

[@repdoderpo1234]

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I worked on some scagliola today (first time actually!) and I have a different theory to what they might have used, let me first share my anecdote:
Since this was my first time actually trying to create scagliola, I created a simple 15x15cm tile. As I was finished I realised some little cracks that I seem to have not spotted earlier. I took some animal glue to work the gypsum into the crack but the animal glue re-liquified the very top layer and made the nice veins disappear! Result being a color very similar to one of the intermediate colors that I created for this tile anyways, but the point being:
you could very likely use this to your advantage so that you only need the lightest and darkest shade of this hue and then blend accordingly. I would imagine you could use a brush for this, maybe they did it in circular motions, hence the shape.
Thanks for sharing this presentation and greetings from Dresden!

[@TheFiown]

It's still 'scagliola' as in ska lee ola and not sky ola

[@CheeseBae]

There is no L sound in the middle. In Italian, gli is basically a Y sound. So it's sca-yola. If you don't believe me listen to it into Google translate. That said, that's just the standard Italian pronunciation. Where she was taught in Italy, depending on the regional dialect and accent, they might actually pronounce it the way she says it.

[@TheFiown]

@@CheeseBae Thank you !