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Brooch Design and Fabrication

In this workshop students will learn about pin stems, fabrication, cold connections, alternative settings, and mini mechanisms to make sculptural brooches. Focusing on fabrication, students will hone hand-skills to troubleshoot design challenges and develop a new “jewelry language” through shape, color, material and wear-ability. This workshop will focus on partnering experimentation with fabrication and stretch the definitions of what a brooch can be. By the end of two days each student will have made two brooches - one that will be a copper tab/fold-up brooch with pin stem and a fabricated sterling silver, double pin stem brooch. Each student will incorporate a small object of their choosing into each of the brooches. Please see the Materials & Tools section for a list of appropriate items. 

 

 

Meet the instructor

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Arthur Hash received his MFA in metalsmithing and jewelry design from Indiana University in 2005 and his BFA in Crafts/Material Studies from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2002. Currently, Arthur is a Jewelry designer/consultant/educator who shares a studio with his wife and fellow jeweler, Liz Clark, in Providence, Rhode Island.   

 

 

For the last fifteen years Arthur has taught digital fabrication and Jewelry courses at multiple universities across the country including the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island, Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia and SUNY New Paltz in New Patlz, New York. Arthur has managed/operated multiple digital fabrication/metals facilities including Makerbot Innovation Centers, Digital Design and Fabrication certificate programs and MIT Fab Labs. His personal studio practice combines traditional craft techniques with digital fabrication technologies such as water-jet cutting, 3D scanning, CNC routing, rapid prototyping and laser engraving to make one-off wearable, art jewelry pieces, production jewelry and wearable interactive electronics.

 

 

Materials & Tools

There is a $60 materials fee for this workshop that is payable upon registration. The materials kit includes copper sheet for samples, sterling silver wire and tubing, pin stem wire, and various flex shaft attachments and tools necessary to complete the project. 

Students should bring

Students bring a selection of objects that they would like to "set" in a brooch. These objects should be light weight and appropriate for a brooch.  For example: a small found piece of wood or a antique button, a patterned swatch of textile, small shells etc. Items that are not appropriate are typically too heavy or too large in scale.  For example, medium to large size precious or non precious stones/rocks/brick, large to medium size pieces of steel or other heavy metal, heavy pieces of decorative tile, etc. 

Other items for students to bring include:

  • Ultra fine tip sharpie marker
  • Scribe
  • paper (plain white printer paper)
  • any personal metal tools you would like to bring including a favorite hammer, flex shaft bits, files, jeweler's saw and blades etc
 

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