2-day Workshop!
Thursday and Friday, August 6 and 7, 9:00 am to 5:00 am with a break for lunch and shopping from noon to 2:00 each day.
Reimagine jewelry making into something playful, experimental, unexpected, and best of all, inexpensive! In this workshop, you will learn how to use a variety of non-traditional, mixed-media materials and combine them in unexpected ways to create well-crafted, wearable jewelry objects. Experiment with paper, plastic, wood, recycled metals, glass, stone, textiles, fibers, ceramic and whatever other materials suit your fancy—anything goes! If you love it, bring it. This is not a “duplicate my object” workshop. In this 2-day, hands-on workshop, we will create several “exercise” pieces both mornings to warm up and learn essential joining/assemblage techniques, then spend the afternoons boldly creating unique-to-you jewelry objects born from your ideas and brought to life with materials you provide! Free play within a supportive structure is the daily plan, and you’ll try many ways and ideas for using your favorite non-traditional materials. Alternative Jewelry Lab succeeds when you come with an open mind and fun materials from home that you want to use—provided they’re compatible with a jewelry-scale format.
You must bring something (or several somethings) from this list: Small-scale found objects like shells, pebbles, rocks, buttons or hardware; Beads and/or stones; Favorite papers or fibers; Vintage parts or ephemera; Small objects that excite you but you don’t know what to do with.
You must also bring: Jewelry making pliers; A hammer and steel block; A centerpunch; A portable bench pin; A jeweler’s saw and/or sheet metal shears; A tray, plate, bowl or cloth for your stuff; A notebook and writing materials; Personal task light and magnification (if needed).