569. Intermediate Jewelry Fabrication – Emphasis on Bezels

569. Intermediate Jewelry Fabrication – Emphasis on Bezels

Class - Metals | This class is completed

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

Metals Studio - 209

Intermediate-level; sawing, filing, soldering skills needed

7/11/2023-9/5/2023

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$320.00

$288.00

If you’ve learned the basics of jewelry fabrication, this metals class will give you the opportunity to pursue projects of your own choice while emphasizing the technique of bezel-setting stones. Directed projects will also be offered to target enhancing your jewelry-making skills by learning about mechanisms such as hinges and closures as well as the use of the hydraulic press. After demos, there will be lots of work time and individual guidance. Some jewelry fabrication experience is necessary. Students will provide their own materials; some metal is available for purchase during class. Tools and equipment are provided, or students may bring their own. Class available for ages 16+. 

Note: No class August 8

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).