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Creative Chain Making
Learn to turn simple wire into beautiful handmade chain! In this one-day workshop students will begin to think creatively about how to make unique links that don’t require soldering to stay put. Start with a traditional Egyptian Scroll Chain, and then start experimenting with new designs. For the second half of the workshop students will be introduced to the torch and ball up their wire to fasten links with a decorative touch. No prior metalsmithing experience is needed; all are welcome to enroll! Leave with a bracelet in progress, the skills to complete the project at home, samples, and tons of inspiration!
Meet the instructor
Brie Flora is a contemporary jeweler and educator currently living in east Tennessee. Brie is a graduate from Massachusetts College of Art and Design with a dual degree in Metalsmithing & Jewelry and Art Education May 2015. Her wearable jewelry plays with symmetry and consists heavily of line work, negative space, patterns, and color. She pulls elements from nature, fantasy, & fiction to create unique works of wearable art with a minimalist aesthetic balanced with pops of intricate marks and illustrations.
Brie has been featured in over 10 group exhibitions, recently including Touchy Feely at the Baltimore Jewelry Center in Baltimore MD, and HOTDOG! Show Chicago at the Ornament and Object gallery, Chicago IL. She also created and curated the first vol. of “Guidelines – A contemporary jewelry project” that featured works by 15 jewelers and makers including herself. “Guidelines” was on view during Adorned Spaces at the 2019 SNAG Conference in Chicago, and then up for a month-long exhibition at the Appalachian Center for Craft in Smithville, TN (for more information go to @guidelines_jewelry on Instagram).
Materials & Tools
There is a $35 materials fee for this course, which is payable upon registration and includes enough copper and sterling silver wire to create multiple chain samples, and other various studio supplies necessary for this process.
- Sketchbook
- Ultra fine-tip sharpie marker
- Optional: A pendant to make a chain for, if desired