Additional price per ounce for precious metals. In this secondary class students will build on their basic skills of design, stonesetting, raising, hydraulic forming and surface treatment, along with being introduced to new techniques. There will be an emphasis on exploration. The focus on this class will be architectural elements in the home. Experienced students can expand their skills by anticlastic forming, holloware fabrication, etching and using metal as accent.
Students can work with brass, copper or sterling silver.
The Other White Metal Learn how to fabricate stainless steel into jewelry or small-scale sculpture. Stainless steel is a peculiar entity, it is very rigid in many ways. However, with careful attention it can be soldered, forged, bent and textured, among other things. It can also be essential in constructing small, long-lasting mechanisms. In this class students will introduced to simple cutting and soldering techniques, then encouraged to map out a project for themselves which they will then translate into form.