![]() You will start with a keepsake-a button, your child’s tooth, or a rock from a favorite place-that you will transform into something wonderful by integrating it into a piece of jewelry. This workshop will explore techniques for creating objects that express your story. Much of art is about storytelling, and everyone has a story. Studio artist, curator, writer teaching: Rhode Island School of Design, Appalachian State University (NC), Virginia Commonwealth University residencies: Arrowmont (TN), Baltimore Jewelry Center, Penland Resident Artist Program exhibitions: Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Contemporary Craft Museum (Pittsburgh), Soil Gallery (Seattle), Benaki Museum (Athens) writing published in Metalsmith and Art Jewelry Forum work featured in Metalsmith and Jewelry and Metalsmithing Survey.Į | 15 – Regular enrollment opens It is made partially accessible by a stair lift. ![]() Note: this workshop takes place in a studio that has stairs that compromise access. Students will learn and expand on the techniques of soldering, cutting, and finishing, and will leave with one or two completed pieces. We will also explore ways to set odd-shaped stones and objects. We will cover the basic steps for making prong, tab, and flush settings, as well as settings made with alternative materials. Studio artist teaching: University of Georgia, Cranbrook (MI), Rhode Island School of Design, University of the Arts (Philadelphia) collections: Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Yale University Art Gallery (CT), Museum of Arts and Design (NYC), Metropolitan Museum (NYC) representation Sienna Patti Contemporary dolorescanardĮxplore all the ways that metal and nonmetallic materials can be used to create one-of-a-kind settings that will hold your precious materials-from gemstones to found objects. This workshop takes place in a ground-level studio with compromised access. Finally for dessert, we’ll sample the delights of color as we explore the basics of working with vitreous enamel. We’ll continue the tasting menu with a week of wax carving and lost-wax casting with guest instructor Suzanne Pugh. Focusing on fabrication, we’ll whet our appetites by investigating hollow and wire construction, repetitive elements as structure, forming, mechanisms, and stonesetting. ![]() Students will have the opportunity to explore a wide variety of techniques while working toward a deeper understanding of their own interests in making small objects and jewelry. " David Morrison Nanaimo, Vancouver Island, BC workshop will be a feast of technical and conceptual investigation in the metals studio. There is, of course, no true substitute for experiencing the real thing, but the images contained within the lush pages of this book will, as the originals intended, make you smile, gasp and sigh. ![]() And just like those particular peaks of human creativity, Douglas' offerings are powerful, beautiful, and make you feel good in their company. I maintain that no one has made better use of a saxophone since Clarence Clemons on "Born to Run" or of a French horn since Wolfie Amadeus penned concerti for it. They're like the boyhood dreams of a romantic engineer come to life. Since seeing them up close in all their elegant mechanical glory, we have remained spellbound by Douglas' joyous, whimsical garden art. This may tell you something of the universal appeal of his spectacular kinetic sculptures. There were maybe seven or eight pieces, the only unsold examples of over six hundred created in a mere five years. Upon meeting Douglas - quite the charmer, I must say - he gave my wife and I an anecdote-peppered tour of the small collection of his work dotted about the yards of his Black Creek home. Long fascinated by improbable machinery, interactive art and creative recycling, I was attracted to his extraordinary creations from the moment I saw a sample of them on his website. "I first met Douglas Walker in June 2009 in pursuit of a magazine article I was writing about the man and his work.
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