Upcoming workshops:
Chester Art Centre
Pendant, Bracelet, Earrings
Link to the Chester Art Centre page: pendant, bracelet, earrings
Register through the Chester Art Center. Cost $150
Tuesday August, 2022 9AM-3PM
Learn the basics of hammering, bending, stamping, and forming copper to create your own fabulous jewelry. In this one-day workshop, students will first explore the fundamentals with exercises in technique, leading to designing and crafting their own pendant, bracelet, or earring set.
Students will learn to cut and shape copper. Employing shears, saws, and files, and forming with hammers, pliers, and fixtures the copper is transformed; applying a variety of surface textures and finishes to embellish the work takes it even further. All with the intention of taking home their own art jewelry pieces.
Cost: $150
Materials and findings are provided, and a wide variety of shared tooling will be employed. Please bring hearing and eye protection, and wear closed toe footwear.
Skill level: beginner to intermediate.
Maximum number of participants: 10
Hand Hammer Copper
Chester Art Center
Tuesday & Wednesday
Sept 6-7, 2022, 9am-3pm
Link to Chester Art Center page: hand hammer copper
Register through Chester Art Center. Cost $250
Learn the ancient art of hand-hammering copper. Through demonstrations, discussions, and hands-on work students will learn the basic skills to raise and sink a copper bowl. Over the two days participants will first create a bowl, and then a bowl with an applied handle. It could be a sweet coffee scoop, or a ladle to serve a holiday beverage; copper has a long history in making functional art.
Copper discs and handle material will be provided. A variety of shared tooling will be available for use. Bring your own marked hammers if you wish to try them. Please bring work gloves, hearing, and eye protection, and wear closed toe footwear.
Skill level: beginner to intermediate.
Maximum number of participants: 10
Cost $250
BIG BOWL CLASS
Make a large copper bowl
Tuesday & Wednesday
October 4 & 5, 2022 9AM-3PM
Link to Chester Art Center page: big copper bowl
Register through Chester Art Center. Cost $250
With hammers, technique and intention you will learn how to cold forge a large bowl. The energy of a hammer strike moves the copper, shaping it, finishing it organically, with an immediacy that is so very gratifying. In this two day workshop participants will be guided through first creating a small bowl to develop knowledge and skills. Then apply their ability to a much larger disc, working, stretching and coaxing it into a lovely objects.
Copper discs will be provided. A variety of shared tooling will be available for use. Bring your own marked hammers if you wish to try them. Please bring work gloves, hearing, and eye protection, and wear closed-toe footwear.
Cost: $250
Maximum number of participants: 10
Skill Level: Beginner to Intermediate
