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From Flat to Form: Creating Volume with Fabrication!
This intensive summer workshop focuses on ways of manipulating sheet metal through scoring, folding, tabbing, and dapping to create small volumes. Over the span of 5 days, learn new approaches to building volumes with pattern development for jewelry, utensils, small dishes, and more. Geometric forms and hollow forms for beads, earrings, and beyond will be demonstrated and discussed.
Paulette will provide copper sheet, aluminum for patterns, and a full selection of Argentium .940 sheet, wire, and solder for making finished work. Combine fusion, soldering, forming, and patterning to build up efficiency with jewelry techniques and create new design possibilities for your metalwork!
Meet the instructor
Paulette Werger is a metalsmith and teacher who works in Lebanon, NH. She sells her work both nationally and internationally and is owner of Metalpeople East, a jewelry and hollow ware studio. She has taught metalsmithing at the University of WI, Montana State University, and at craft schools throughout the country.
Materials & Tools
There is an estimated $50 materials fee for this course payable directly to the instructor during class. Paulette will have a variety of metal wire, sheet, bezel, gems, pearls, and other supplies available for a-la-cart purchasing during the class.
Metalwerx and Paulette will have the following supplies for communal use or purchase, but if you have them available, you may want to bring your own:
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sheet metal and wire you'd like to work with
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selection of stones or gems - if you wish to work with them
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hand files
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mini-files
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sandpaper and/or sanding sticks
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safety glasses or reading glasses - for working up close
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other personal hand tools (if not wishing to share communal tools)
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studio apron
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studio towel
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closed-toe shoes - required in the Metalwerx studio
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lunch - Metalwerx has a fridge, toaster oven, and microwave