Metals Workshops
Weekend - May 17-19, 2019 
Fetching Etchings for Charming Champlevé
Hosanna Rubio
Use champlevé enameling to add color, interest and detailed imagery to metal. Techniques
including galvanic etching and custom toner decals make champlevé safe and easy. Learn
to etch copper or silver; pack, fire, stone and finish enamels to produce unique pieces.
Novice-Intermediate
$300
Materials fee: $5-$25
Weeklong: May 26-31, 2019 
Not Your Ordinary Bracelet
Molly Sharp
Construct a unique multi-element bracelet with six diverse panels. Explore many basic
metalsmithing techniques including sawing, filing, soldering, stone setting, rivets
and patterning with the use of the rolling mill. Gain an introduction to pebble drilling
as well as the ancient Korean technique of keum-boo.
Beginner
$550
Materials fee: $55-$75
Weeklong: June 2-7, 2019 
Chasing and Repoussé: An Introduction
Adam Whitney
Make your own chasing and repoussé tools and fabricate a container for the tools.
Focus on low relief designs in metal and chasing and repoussé techniques. Create a
small fabricated/soldered container incorporating chasing and repoussé.
Novice-Intermediate
$550
Materials fee: $60
Weeklong Educator's Week - June 9-14, 2019
Introduction to Metalsmithing
Anne Bujold
Explore metalsmithing through processes such as piercing, cold connections and surface
treatments. Create a variety of samples and finished objects over the course of the
week. Discuss basic metalsmithing principles, tools, resources for materials and creative
ways to introduce metals in the classroom.
Novice
$550 (Workshop fee discounted 50% for 5th-12th grade educators)
Weekend - July 5-7, 2019 
Keum-BOOM! Make Your Jewelry POP!
Barbara McFadyen
Explore Keum-Boo - the seemingly magical process of applying 24k gold permanently
to silver. Learn to add this "touch of gold" to silver and copper jewelry pieces.
Create pieces for Keum-Boo while investigating special fabrication techniques including
hydraulic forming, roller embossing and depletion gilding.
Novice-Beginner
$300
Materials fee: T.B.D. - varies by price of metal and use
Weeklong: July 14-19, 2019 
Elegant Connections
Angela Bubash
Integrate found and natural objects within glass windows and metals frames to create
"stones" or focal points for jewelry and small sculpture. Basic and improvised settings,
etching, roller printing and etched embossing plates, die forming, soldering techniques
and various tips and tricks will be covered.
Beginner
$550
Weeklong: July 21-26, 2019 
In the Heat of the Moment: Exploring Torch-fired Enamel
Anne Havel
Explore various methods of line creation and imagery. Learn to apply successive layers
of liquid, acrylic, transparent and opaque powdered enamels. Cover sgraffito, graphite,
sifting, firescale, acid-etching and painting. Utilize under maturity and over-firing
to build and preserve drawings and layers. Cover setting options for your piece(s).
All skill levels!
$550
Weekend - August 2-4, 2019 
Beauty in the Mundane
Jina Seo
Explore nontraditional materials -- domestic, natural, edible, fabric, leather or
found objects -- to create a wearable that reveals the beauty of the mundane. Investigate
methods to incorporate alternative materials with metal components. Cover the basics
of cold connecting, prong setting, pin mechanisms and clasps.
Beginner; it is helpful to be able to saw, file, sand and solder
$300
Materials fee: $10-$50
