Weekend Workshops
October 2024
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Melt Your Scraps into a Ring!
Sat 10/5 10:00 - 5:00
(Lissa Queeney)
Have you always wanted to try your hand at melting your scrap metal into an ingot, then making something from it? Come join us for a super fun one day workshop immersing yourself in the making of a ring. Explore how to transform scraps into a length of wire, form it, solder, shape and clean it up to a high polish. You can even combine your gold and silver to create a unique multi-metal ring! Expand your knowledge and learn some of the infinite possibilities those broken jewelry and tableware items can bring to your jewelry making skill set.
Students can expect to leave with a finished ring.
Skill Level: No experience necessary
Tuition: 165.
Lab Fee: 10.
Materials: Students should bring scrap sterling & gold jewelry, silverware, etc. to melt down in order to create a brand new ring.
Intro to Lampwork Glass Bead Making
Sat 10/12 10:00 - 4:00
(Stephanie Maddalena)
Create unique, individualized glass beads to incorporate into your jewelry pieces. Lampwork glass beads are made with melted glass and shaped to fabricate beautiful one of a kind beads. In this workshop students will learn the basics of lampworking, making beads decorated with flower designs, silver foil, copper leaf and layers of glass designs.
Skill Level: No Experience Necessary
Tuition: 140.
Lab Fee: 35.
Materials: Included
Visiting Artist
CHARLES LEWTON BRAIN
Foldformed Vessels - 3 Day Hands-On Workshop
Fri - Sun 10/25 - 27
9:00 - 5:00This workshop is about using foldforming to make vessels, bowls and containers, concentrating on specific techniques to rapidly create bowls and other larger sculptural forms, and the most appropriate foldforming approaches to create textures and designs on them. The techniques include line folds, Tfolds, scoring and bending and more. We will touch on easy home-based patination methods to color the objects. This is a chance as well to have your foldforming skills enhanced and deepened.
Skill Level: No Experience Necessary
Tuition: 675.
Lab Fee: 30.
Materials: 45.
Catches, Findings and Mechanical Devices - Lecture
Fri 10/25 6:00 - 9:00
This lecture touches on a range of simple and complex hand-made findings and mechanisms. We will address pinback systems, basic hinges and a touch of other catches and principles. The concept of relative fitting is emphasized-which is faster and more accurate than just using measuring to build a catch. Production aids for your workshop and bench tricks are discussed for soldering and building mechanical devices.
Tuition: 85.
Gem Identification on a Shoestring
Sat 10/26 6:00 - 9:00
Glass, composite and imitation gemstones can be determined and many gemstones identified without using complex or extremely expensive instruments. This workshop teaches what can and can't be identified with different degrees of instrument sophistication, from eye identifications on up. Some inexpensive instrument making is discussed in the workshop. It is a basic introduction to gemmology from a practical viewpoint. And how to quickly tell if the thing you are being sold is glass or a fake. Be the detective: Note everything you can about the gem, anything you can definitely say. This builds a pattern of information you can place in context, infer and conclude from.
Tuition: 85.
