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Metals
Week Workshops
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Enriching Surfaces
Pauline
Warg
June 28–July 2
Course # AAJW ØØA
One-week session
There are a myriad of ways to
add interest to your metal surfaces. This class will explore
many of those techniques and allow students to add
their own creativity to enhance and add excitement to
their jewelry and metal work.
The class will start with the
techniques of chasing, matting and stamping. These
decorative surface techniques are applied using small
hand tools, striking them with hammers onto annealed metal
making impressions to express each individual’s
unique style. Chasing can be used as an incising technique,
which can then be filled with silver solder, giving the
illusion of intricate inlay. Chasing, matting and stamping
impressions may also be used in the rolling mill with
another piece of sheet metal to create a raised reverse
roll design.
Using combinations of non precious
metals (copper, brass, bronze and nickel) students will
be taught to combine these metals, sometimes with silver,
to create patterned sheet metal of many variations. These
methods will include puzzle fitting, twisted wire patterned
sheet, inlay and false inlay.
Each topic will be taught by giving a lecture on the technique,
demonstrations, then hands on by students. There will
be additional handouts for each student to have as a reference
when the week is over. Trouble shooting and problem solving
will be covered.
Some additional carving and embellishing
techniques will be covered as time allows (Keum-boo, file
carving directly on metal, hammer textures, file and bur
textures). We will also explore ways to use these decorative
surfaces. Since many of these techniques allow limited
soldering for fabrication, a variety of cold connections
will be taught.
Materials: Download
Materials List
Tuition: $625
Lab fee: $45 (Includes use of specialized
tools, silver solder, specific fluxes, some non precious
metal sheet and wire, use of instructor’s tools,
consumable materials such as paper, pens, templates).
The instructor will have many materials and some tools
for purchase during the class.
Enrollment limited to 12
students.
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Exploring Enameling
Linda
Darty
June 28–July 2
Course # AAJW ØØ-B
One-week session
Enameling, the art of fusing glass onto metal, dates back
to the 13th century BC! Though in those days when the
artisans found and ground their own glass, and fired in
ovens that they took hours and hours to heat up and cool,
the techniques were extremely labor intensive and complex.
Contemporary materials and methods offer artists unlimited
possibilities for using layers of transparent or opaque
glass in simple ways, firing kilns that heat up quickly
and fuse the glass in 3 minutes or more, and using enamel
materials that mimic paint, chalks with simple application
techniques. In this class you will discover how to enamel
using a variety of contemporary techniques, adding rich
color, texture and imagery to metalwork in ways that are
personal and expressive.
A lot of information about many
different enameling techniques will be taught during this
week, and students can choose to explore those that they
like best. A basic introduction to enameling will be presented
which includes preparation of opaque and transparent colors,
dry sifting and wet inlaying techniques as well as experimental
approaches with liquid enamels. We will learn to use sifted,
stenciled and sgraffito techniques in combination with
foils, underglazes, water colors, painting enamels, and
decal papers. Wet inlay and layering of transparent colors
can be learned while creating small cloisonné jewelry
pieces on either copper or fine silver. Simple approaches
to champleve enameling will also be discussed. Students
might choose to focus on only one or two processes, or
to make samples of many different techniques, creating
a rich resource for future research. We will learn how
to create beautiful matte finishes on enamel, as well
as explore metal fabrication as it relates to enameling.
Conversations will include soldering before, during, and
after enameling as well as cold connections and setting
options.
The goal in this course is to
demystify enameling so that each student can use it freely
to create work that is inventive and personally satisfying.
It is my hope that students will learn how many diverse
effects can be achieved with glass on metal, discovering
new and exciting ways to add stunning color to metal work!
Instruction will be given for all levels of students.
Materials: Downlod
Materials List
Tuition: $625
Lab fee: $45 (Includes use of tools,
equipment and consumables such as solder, compounds.)
Students are encouraged to bring their own metal and tools
but they must be clearly marked. Some metal will be available
for purchase in the class.
Enrollment limited to 12
students
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Experimenting with Surface
Brigid
O'Hanrahan
June 28–July 2
Course # AAJW ØØC
One-week session
Fusing and granulation are easy,
fun and will enhance your soldering skills. This workshop
will cover basic techniques of fusing and granulation
using fine silver (and 22k gold if you wish to work with
gold). You will learn basic techniques including making
and sorting granules; fusing sheet, wire and granules
to sheet; and making a fused bead for granulation. The
workshop will include time to integrate the information
on these processes with your own designs. We will also
cover classical Roman chains with fused links.
Fusing and granulation can be a way of creating classically
organized geometric patterns or can be an experimentally
free-form way of joining metals to make a relief surface.
We will explore both ways of working during the workshop.
The class will begin with making and sorting granules
and fusing a small number of wire links for a basic classical
chain (an introduction to basic chain making will be included).
The techniques of fusing and granulation will be introduced
by using experimentation with sheet, wire and granules,
and will continue with granulation on hollow forms. Students
will then choose which aspects of the process they want
to explore more deeply in relation to their own work.
Instruction will be given for
all levels of students; however, intermediate and advanced
students will be able to exploit the techniques more fully.
Materials: Download
Materials List
Tuition: $625
Lab fee: $45 (Includes the use of all
tools, equipment, and consumables such as solder and compounds.)
Students are encouraged to bring their own metal and tools
– but they must be clearly marked. Some metal will
be available for purchase in class.
Enrollment limited to 12
students.
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The Mighty Mill
Deborah
E. Love Jemmott
June 28–July 2 Course #
AAJW ØØD
One-week session
The Rolling Mill–some of
you have one in your studio–many of you have access
to one in classes you take. But do you really know all
the techniques that can be accomplished with a mill?
The week will begin with an exploration
of some basic techniques and the proper ways to accomplish
them. You will learn how to make sheet and wire thinner
(there are more tricks than you think), how to change
the shapes of wires and how to taper wire for “pre-forging.”
The class will then take you
step-by-step through the roller printing process including
information on the various items that can be printed and
embossed. We will explore how to print paper, feathers,
leaves, and other “found” textures. You will
also make your own patterns to print using several different
methods.
Some of the more obscure rolling
mill techniques will be covered with demos and lectures–and
the ambitious student may have time to accomplish samples
of several of them. These techniques include:
The emphasis of this class will
be on learning a wide variety of mill techniques and making
pieces of metal for future use–not on making a finished
piece. Instruction will also be given in the proper care
and maintenance of the mill.
Instruction will be given for
all levels of students; however, intermediate and advanced
students will be able to exploit the techniques more fully.
Materials: Download
Materials List
Tuition: $625
Lab fee: $45 (Includes the use of all
tools, equipment, and consumables such as solder and compounds.)
Students are encouraged to bring their own metal and tools
– but they must be clearly marked. Some metal will
be available for purchase in class.
Enrollment limited to 12
students.
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Textile Techniques in Metal
Arline
Fisch
June 28–July 2
Course # AAJW ØØE
One-week session
This is an intensive workshop
covering a broad range of textile structures which can
be used in metal, including weaving, braiding, knitting,
crochet and basketry. Slides and demonstrations will be
followed by the making of small samples in thin sheet
metal and small gauge wire as an introduction to various
processes. Each sample will be a complete unit with edges
and surfaces finished in a manner appropriate to the specific
technique. Materials used will include copper, brass,
aluminum and silver.
