Putting emotion into metal: Brigitte Clavette and the art that won her a Governor General's Award

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Brigitte Clavette thought she was going to be a printmaker. Now a renowned artist who recently won a Governor General's Award for her work in fine craft, Clavette was painting and doing photography while studying at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax when she wanted to try cutting a hole in a piece of copper. "When I walked into the jewelry studio with all the tools and the machines and the metal, I was just blown away, so I transferred over," she said. Clavette, now semi-retir

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