Jennifer Walterscheid is an artist living and working in Sacramento, California. Originally from Wichita, Kansas, she is a graduate of Wichita State University with a Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art and a Certificate of Ornamental Painting and Design. She served as an enameling instructor at Mark Arts in Wichita for eight years.
Enameling has been Jennifer's passion for nearly 20 years, discovered almost by chance when a friend invited her to a class shortly after finishing her degree. She considers herself a painter — but one who works with metal, glass, and fire rather than paint and canvas. Her designs are an expression of her thoughts and emotions, diverse and ever-changing as her exploration of the medium continues. She has a particular love for enameling on vintage copper vessels, finding her cloisonné work on three-dimensional surfaces to be a meditative practice. More recently, etching metal has opened an exciting new direction, with the juxtaposition of different metals and textures leading her toward wearable art.
Her work has been exhibited widely, including at the Coutts Museum in El Dorado, Kansas, The Wichita National All Media Craft Exhibition at The Wichita Center for the Arts/Mark Arts, The Enamelist Society 2024 Alchemy7 Summer Exhibition, the Steckline Gallery at Newman University, the gallery at Exploration Place, Visual Arts Alliance in McPherson, the William J. Reals Gallery of Art, and the Mercer Gallery at Garden City Community College.