Date April 24 to April 25, 2010

Appropriately scheduled for Earth Day, this two day workshop encourages creative thinking to turn found objects into jewelry.  It will cover joining techniques and mountings to frame items.

For more information about Heather’s work please visit her website and blog

Tuesday 3rd March & Wednesday 4th March
Tuesday 17th March
Tuesday 27th & Wednesday 28th March
Brazen Studios – Glasgow

Teaches you how to pierce & solder metal; show you different surface decoration techniques and take you through the process of finishing your own piece of jewellery. For those makers who have attended courses in the past we will guide you through more advanced techniques and allow you to initiate your own design project with technical support from the tutor.
Our onsite jewellery studios are light and spacious and class sizes are limited to ten makers to ensure adequate one-to-one tuition as well as group demonstrations.

Classes in our 2009 Masters Symposium are filling quickly. due to high demand, full payment is due with your registration.

Mandala Patterns in Cloisonné with Harlan Butt, April 6-10 · $899 + $150 kit
Basse Taille, Stencil & Sgraffitto with Harlan Butt, April 11-12·$349+$110 kit
Steel Simplified with Suzanne Pugh, April 4-5, 2009 · $349 + $65 kit
Advanced Pavé with Christo Kiffer, April 3-5, 2009 · $499 + $75 kit
Loop-in-Loop Chains with Jean Stark, April 18-19 · $349 + $110 kit
Special Techniques in Chasing & Repoussé with Fabrizio Acquafresca

Full Symposium Classes:
18k Granulation with Kent Raible, April 6-10 · $899 + kit
Ancient Rings III with Jean Stark, April 13-17 · $899 + $65
Chasing & Repoussé with Fabrizio Acquafresca, April 13-17 · $1250 + $20 kit
Designing & Cutting Gems with Bernd Munsteiner, April 20-24 · $1250 +$45 kit
Optics & Reflections with Bernd Munsteiner, April 25-26 · $399 + $30 kit
Anticastic Raising with Michael Good, April 20-24 · $1250 + $30 kit
Advanced Anticlastic Raising with Michael Good, April 25-26 · $399 + $25 kit

Appalachian Center for Craft
1560 Craft Center Drive
Smithville, TN 37166

May 8-10, 2009 Hand-Hammered Copper: Arts & Craft Style – Robert Trout

May 15-17, 2009 Earrings & Rings – Stephen Spicer

May 31-June 5, 2009 Metal Vessel Fabrication – Kee-ho Yuen

June 7-12, 2009 Repoussé & Chasing – Richard Prillaman

June 14-19, 2009 Stone Setting Plus – Howard Thompson

June 21-26, 2009 Hydraulic Assist Die Forming – Val Link

July 5-10, 2009 Imagery on Jewelry – Joanna Gollberg

July 12-17, 2009 Keeping It All Together: Enameling in 3-D – Deborah Lozier

July 19-24, 2009 Beginning Jewelry: Powder Coating – Sung-Yeoul Lee

July 26-31, 2009 Box It Up – Alison Pack

Sept. 11-13, 2009 Explore Cold Connections – Connie Ulrich

Sept. 18-20, 2009 Beginning Jewelry – Sung-Yeoul Lee

For more info contact Gail Gentry – Workshop & Event Coordinator
Appalachian Center for Craft

The following chasing & repousse’ weekend workshops are now open for enrollment:
November 15-16 & December 13-14
Saturday & Sunday – 9am to 12pm & 1pm to 5pm
Two Day Workshop Tuition: $435 (14 hrs)
Materials and Tools are supplied.

complete workshop details,lodging info, and/or to register

DAVIDE BIGAZZI STUDIO is located at the Allied Arts Guild in the San Francisco Bay Area

Workshop Topics

•  Alloying jewelry metals
•  How to alloy different colors and karats of gold from 24K and pre-mixed alloys, and making sterling silver from fine silver and copper or S88 alloy.
•  Strategies for selecting and adjusting ingot molds for correct sized finished wire and sheet stock.
•  Melting and pouring ingots with a torch.
•  Care and maintanance of rolling mills.
•  Making basic square wire stock.
•  Making a true square, rectangular wire, bezel stock, tapering wire for the drawplate.
•  Correct annealing of wire and sheet stock, coiling and wrapping for annealing wire.
•  Upsetting rectangular stock for narrowing.
•  Reshaping larger wire shapes into smaller wire forms.
•  Using the mill to make sheet stock “dead flat”.
•  Using drawplates to make wire stock.
•  How to straighten wire.
•  Assorted rolling mill tricks for making fancy stock.
•  Roller printing with assorted materials.

Meet the artist & booksigning Oct. 2, 2008 at 2:30 space is limited.

Masters Workshop March 27-29, 2009