5168. Bezel Basics - Workshop

5168. Bezel Basics - Workshop

Workshop - Metals | This class has been canceled

251 N Spruce St. Winston-Salem, NC 27101 United States

Metals Studio - 209

Some experience required.

1/16/2021-1/23/2021

9:30 AM-4:00 PM EDT on Sat

$290.00

$261.00

Is your jewelry calling for color? Learn the fundamentals of making your own bezels to hold round, oval, trillion or irregular shaped cabochon stones. Many tips for measuring, soldering, setting, and finishing will be covered so you can have consistent results. You’ll get a chance to absorb and practice what you’ve learned and possibly even make some progress on projects during the week between classes. A material fee of $50 is payable to the instructor at the first class session. Materials will include gemstones, fine silver, sterling backing metal, a needle file that you will use for many future bezels, and a goody bag of custom setting aids. Additional stones will be available for purchase. Some jewelry fabrication experience is necessary. Comfort with soldering, sawing, and filing is required. Class open to ages 16 through adult. Masks and social distancing are required in this and all Sawtooth classes. This workshop meets on two consecutive Saturdays, January 16 and January 23.

Clark, Thea

Thea Clark is recent transplant to Greensboro from New Jersey where she was a 2012 New Jersey State Council on the Arts fellow. Her artwork includes jewelry, sculpture, and installation. She has exhibited widely with solo shows at the New Jersey Center of Visual Arts, Velvet DaVinci (San Francisco), a two person show at The Houston Center of Contemporary Craft (Houston). National and international exhibitions including: The Museum of Art and Design (NYC), Museum of Modern Art (Arnhem, NL), University of Birmingham (Great Britain), Textile Museum (Washington D.C.), The Society of Arts and Crafts (Boston, MA), Newark Museum, State Museum (Trenton, NJ), Noyes Museum (Oceanville, NJ), Rochester Institute of Technology (NY), Jersey City and Kean Universities (NJ), among others. She has sold her work at American Craft Council, Sausalito Art Festival, and Smithsonian Craft shows. Publications include seven books in the US and Europe, and exhibition catalogues. She was a resident at the Vermont Studio Center (artist grant), visiting artist at Boise State University, and has given artist talks at Glassell School of Art (Houston), Rutgers University- Robeson Gallery (Newark, NJ). She has taught at Peters Valley School of Craft (Layton NJ), the Visual Arts Center of NJ, and the former Arts Workshop in Newark, NJ. She also enjoyed six summers teaching children metals and enameling at Frenchwoods Festival of the Arts (NY).