About
This class is only for students of the Certificate of Craft Advanced Jewelry Apprentice program.
Learning how to form metal using the hydraulic press opens new possibilities for your work! In this class, you’ll learn how to create multiples of the same shape, which you can turn into beads, pendants, and components for earrings, bracelets, and necklaces. If you’re using textured metal, you won’t lose detail as you form the components.
You will learn how to:
- Texture metal using the rolling mill
- Create dimensional squares, diamonds, teardrops, and other non-spherical shapes using pre-made silhouette dies and the hydraulic press
- Cut disks using the disk cutter and form them using a dapping block in the hydraulic press
- Cut your own custom-designed dies out of cast acrylic
You will be able to create samples of each forming technique and make a pendant by riveting three layers of textured and formed metal together.
Please note the the sessions are Monday, January 31, Wednesday, February 2, Monday, February 14 and Thursday, February 17.
There is a $26 materials fee for 22 gauge copper, 22 gauge brass, cast acrylic sheet, and a variety of texturing materials.
Instructor Bio:
Joan Hammond began working in metal in 1994, when she started taking metalsmithing classes as an antidote to documenting computer software. What she discovered was a medium that not only utilized her previous training in painting, printmaking, and ceramics, but also opened the possibilities of creating art that can be worn. Family artifacts and history, plants and animals, and the textiles and jewelry of non-Western cultures inspire her current work, which Hammond executes using various fabrication techniques, including chasing and repoussé. Her long-time interest in Asian art, which deepened when she studied calligraphy and tea ceremony in Kyoto, Japan, continues to influence her aesthetics and sense of design.
Hammond exhibits locally and nationally, and her work has been published in Metalsmith magazine’s Exhibition in Print. She is a member of the Seattle Metals Guild; has served on the Board of Northwest Designer craftsmen; and co-chaired a national conference for the Society of North American Goldsmiths. She is an active member of BARN.
