Continue developing your metalsmithing skills while exploring intermediate and advanced design concepts and techniques in fabrication, soldering, precious metals, and stone setting. In addition, enameling and experimental media will be covered.
Note: There is no class on Nov. 21
Prerequisite: Intermediate Jewelry or similar experience.
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Create a beautiful piece of jewelry while learning the basics of enameling (the application of color by fusing sifted powdered glass onto copper). Techniques that will be explored include stenciling, drawing with pencil, rubber stamps, and sgraffito.
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Get a great introduction to working with borosilicate glass and the torch. In this two-hour workshop, make a beautiful glass pendant by applying color to a clear rod of glass. Take it home and make a beautiful necklace for yourself or to give as a gift.
All supplies included. Closed-toe shoes, long pants, hair tie are required.
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Continue your investigation into composition, color and brushwork in this intermediate course. Through a series of landscapes, still-lifes, and simple portraits you will learn how to effectively work with reference photos and develop a personal palette, Experiment with the various acrylic mediums and discover how to use layering, texture, light and shadow, highlights, reflections and transparencies in your paintings.
Prerequisite: Intro to Acrylic Painting or equivalent experience.
Note: There is no class Nov. 22
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A continuation of Welding Basics, this one-day intensive workshop further explores form, concepts, and tools used by metal artists, including the plasma torch, MIG welder, and a number of hand and power tools.
Prerequisite: Welding Basics or equivalent experience.
All welding tools and basic safety equipment such as glasses, gloves, jackets, etc. will be provided by GoggleWorks.
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Hone your hand and machine skills by building a small table with mortise and tenon joinery. Wood selection, layout and planning, accurate milling, sharpening chisels, various methods of creating mortise and tenon joints, glue-up, and finishing techniques will be covered. This class is ideal for students ranging from beginners to more experienced woodworkers who want to take their woodworking skills to the next level.
Prerequisite: Intro to Woodworking or equivalent experience. All supplies included.
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Explore the art, aesthetics, and techniques of glassblowing. Topics covered include historical and contemporary glass movements, basic glass chemistry, and studio applications.
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Discover the variety of tools and techniques of glass fusing. Learn to shape and layer sheet glass and properly prepare your work for kiln firing. Create both functional and abstract pieces while being encouraged to delve into notions of design using color, light, and texture.
All supplies included. Closed-toe shoes required.
Note: There is no class Nov. 22
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Further your glassblowing technique and craftsmanship in this intermediate class. You will be encouraged to use your imagination and challenge yourself conceptually in the design and fabrication of each project. Prerequisite: Intro to Glassblowing
Note: There is no class Nov. 24
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Expand on your metalsmithing skills in this intermediate class. Learn more complex jewelry design and metal manipulation techniques while creating unique pendants, rings, bracelets, or earrings of your own design.
All supplies included. Closed-toe shoes required.
Prerequisite: Intro to Jewelry
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In this intermediate class, you’ll move beyond the basics and enhance your watercolor painting skills with weekly exercises and group critiques.
Prerequisite: Intro to Watercolor or equivalent experience.
Note: There is no class Nov. 21
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Learn the skills necessary to throw cylinders, cups, bowls, and more in this exciting introduction to the fundamentals of working on a potter’s wheel. You will be guided through the process of throwing, shaping, and trimming your pieces. Discover your creative voice through basic surface decoration and glazing techniques.
Note: There is no class Nov. 24.
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Learn the foundations of handbuilding in this beginner class; create forms using pinching, coil, and slab construction; learn basic methods of connecting clay; and understand the process of turning clay into a functional or sculptural glazed ceramic object.
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Have you always wanted to learn to draw a simple plant? Capture the essence of a bloom? Create a painting of a patch of moss? Join botanical artist Margaret Saylor in a relaxed, fun class as she guides even the most inexperienced of artists into new territory. Even if you are an accomplished painter, learning about the world of contemporary botanical art will open up new vistas and improve your observation skills. Work in graphite, watercolor, or colored pencil. Individual instruction provided.
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Learn the basic process of slip casting while creating a unique porcelain sculptural vessel. You will leave this workshop understanding how the casting process works along with how different materials such as casting clay and plaster can be used to create interesting ceramic works.
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Explore using drape and slump molds to make several common pottery forms such as trays, plates, and bowls as an alternative to the potter’s wheel. Learn through demonstration and hands-on experience in working with soft slabs and several types of molds. Leave this workshop with a good understanding of how to make your own and continue your exploration independently.
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Take your flameworking skills to the next level and learn how to sculpt a tiny glass fox through demonstrations and hands-on experience. Learn how to encase color, as well as further your knowledge of flameworking tools. Prerequisite: Intro to Flameworking or equivalent experience.
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Learn the basics of screen printing in this hands-on one day workshop by starting with a digital graphic design and move through all the steps of preparing transparencies, coating and exposing screens, setting up a print job, and printing and setting ink.
One t-shirt is included with tuition and GoggleWorks will provide a one-color artwork for you to print. You may bring in more if you’d like or purchase additional shirts during class. A custom upgrade will be available during registration to print a personalized design.
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