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Metals Summer 2009 Classes are open to serious students of all levels unless specified in course description; beginners welcome. Session 1 May 24 - June 5 
Leslie Noell Leslie Noell - Musings, Matter, & Cross-Pollination Working with traditional and alternative materials and low-tech methods, we will find the most direct path from idea to form. Keeping our scale below 12 inches, we will make sketches, models, objects, sculpture, and relief imagery. We will test the boundary between image and object and discuss how materials and methods of making convey content. Techniques will include collage, finishing techniques, encaustic paint, cold connections, brazing and stick soldering, and whatever expertise students bring. Open to curious minds regardless of media interest and creative objectives. All levels. Code 01ma Studio artist, Penland core fellowship program coordinator; teaching: University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, Asheville Art Museum; exhibitions: Mobile Museum of Art (AL), Asheville Art Museum (NC). 
Daniel Randall Daniel Randall - Hammer Time This class will focus on techniques for creating volume using sheet metal. Hammer forming has a wide variety of applications from hollowware to jewelry to small and large sculpture. We will cover a wide variety of hammer forming techniques including sinking, raising, and anticlastic and synclastic forming. The goals of this class are to introduce techniques, experiment and apply these techniques to personal artistic interests, and leave with the knowledge needed to continue exploring. All levels. Code 01mb Studio artist; representation: Rakova Brecker Gallery (FL); work included in the international juried online exhibition METAL Inclinations. Session 2 June 7 - June 21 
C. James Meyer C. James Meyer - Found Object as Raw Material The desire to scavenge seems universal. Why do we collect rocks, shells, shards, or bones? Is it their inherent beauty, the mark of an experience, or just a connection between the human species and our environment? Artists can formalize this experience by using these objects as raw material. This class will exploit their inherent aesthetics or infuse them with preciousness, finding creative solutions for assembly. Techniques will include basic lapidary for stone, glass, and ceramic; setting methods; and metal fabrication processes. We will share some demonstrations, lectures, and critiques with Robert Ebendorf's class. All levels. Code 02ma Professor emeritus from Virginia Commonwealth University; work exhibited nationally and internationally and included in many collections. 
Robert Ebendorf Robert Ebendorf - Jewelry as Personal Adornment This class will explore a wide range of concepts applicable to personal adornment and the narrative object. Working with silver, copper, wire, found objects, and recycled materials, we will fashion objects of personal importance, expression, and adornment. We will also use color and collage as design tools. We will discover methods of selection, integration, and assembly inherent to this limitless range of materials. Our class will share some demonstrations, lectures, and critiques with James Meyers's class. Basic sawing, soldering, and filing skills required. Code 02mb Belk Distinguished Professor of Art at East Carolina University (NC); collections: Renwick Gallery (DC), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Museum of Contemporary Craft (CA). Session 3 June 21 - July 3 
Sorting donations at a Radical Jewelry Makeover event Susie Ganch & Christina Miller - Radical Jewelry Makeover Students in this class will transform donated jewelry into new and exciting works while learning valuable skills for the recycling and redesign of second-hand materials. This project will use both Penland metals studios and culminate in an exhibition where a selection of our fresh, unique, handmade, recycled jewelry will be offered for sale to benefit Ethical Metalsmiths, a nonprofit organization working to connect people with responsibly sourced metals and gemstones.
Instruction will include a variety of techniques conducive to working with alternative materials as well as basic metalsmithing processes such as sawing, forming, soldering, and finishing. We will also cover casting, the production of ingots, and basic stonesetting. Studio work and demonstrations will be supported with slide shows, discussions, and readings. Students will also learn how to assess and value jewelry. All levels. Code 03ma Susie: assistant professor and head of metals at Virginia Commonwealth University; exhibitions: SOFA Chicago and New York, Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston.
Session 4 July 5 - July 17 
Mary Kanda Mary Kanda - A Treasure Hunt Bring your journal to map an exploratory trip into the material world. Invoke your inner pack rat to choose materials that represent your unique sensibility. We will use basic jewelry techniques to develop metal armatures in silver or copper and then explore design through color, working with beads, enamels, grout, patinas, and whatever treasures we can politely pilfer from Penland's classrooms and landscape. Basic metal working skills will be helpful but are not required. All levels. Code 04ma Studio artist; teaching: Penland, Philadelphia Museum Craft Show, and her own studio; exhibitions: Widney Moore Gallery (OR), Side Street Gallery (MA); publications:"Color on Metal" by Tim McCreight, Ornament Magazine. 
John Cogswell John Cogswell - Forged & Fabricated Flatware Before the advent of mass production, flatware was produced by hand, one piece at a time; many of these pieces became treasured heirlooms. Students will learn to design and make silver flatware. Topics will include designing for specific uses; modes of production (forged, solder assembled, etc.); forging, forming, and fabrication; detailing, refinement, and finishing. As a special challenge, each student will be invited to create a utensil for a dessert party at the end of the workshop. Any tidbit will taste better when served or eaten with your own elegant creation. Basic sawing, soldering, and filing skills required. Code 04mb Studio artist; adjunct faculty at State University of New York/New Paltz; author of Creative Stone-setting and a chapter in the Penland Book of Jewelry. . Session 5 July 19 - August 4 
Linda Darty Linda Darty - Exploring Enamel Students in this class will gain a clear understanding of how to work with glass on metal. Our focus will be on creating luminosity, transparency, and value gradations by layering transparent and opaque colors. Other possibilities include sifting, painting,cloissané &, and champlevé &. Special effects and detail will be achieved through the use of foil, underglazes, overglazes, acrylic and watercolor enamels, and water-based liquid form enamels. We will work with both flat and formed pieces, covering fabrication techniques as related to enameling. Metalworking experience helpful but not necessary. All levels. Code 05ma Professor at East Carolina University; collections: Victoria and Albert Museum (London), Museum of Arts and Design (NYC); author of The Art of Enameling. 
Arthur Hash Arthur Hash - Upcycling Upcycling is the practice of taking something disposable and transforming it into something of greater use or value. In this class we will create wearable objects from materials that would have otherwise ended up in the trash heap. We will combine common materials (plastic shopping bags, old shoes, used files, CDs, old records, cardboard, straws, aluminum cans, etc., etc.) with traditional jewelry methods and materials. Instruction will cover basic tools and metalworking skills as well as new material processing techniques. Some metals experience is recommended, but the class is open to students of all levels. Code 05mb Lecturer at State University of New York/New Paltz; exhibitions: Facere Gallery (Seattle), Quirk Gallery (VA), Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, Velvet da Vinci (San Francisco).
Session 6 August 9 - August 21 
Lola Brooks Lola Brooks - Buckle Up! We may all be doing a little belt tightening in the next few years, so let's bust out some seriously fabulous belts and buckles for the job. Techniques will include marriage of metals, inlay, embossing, and basic stonesetting. And since a buckle is nothing without a belt, we will tackle the leather itself, embossing, carving, branding, dyeing, and riveting. This class will also include a short workshop in lost wax casting with Barbara Seidenath's class. All levels. Code 06ma Studio artist; teaching: Rhode Island School of Design, University of the Arts (Philadelphia), State University of New York/New Paltz, 92nd St. Y (NYC), Haystack (ME); collections: Samuel Dorsky Museum (NY), Museum of Arts and Design (NYC), Metropolitan Museum of Art (NYC). 
Barbara Seidenath Barbara Seidenath - Linked This workshop will focus on the development of linkage systems in jewelry. Students will experiment using readymade elements and develop their own systems of linking elements together through drawing and models. We will cover various classic chain making techniques, and the class will also include a short workshop in lost wax casting with Lola Brooks's class. Basic sawing, soldering, and filing skills required. Code 06mb Studio artist; NEA Fellowship, two Rhode Island State Council on the Arts Grants; exhibitions: National Ornamental Metal Museum (TN), Museum of Art and Design (Helsinki), Museum of Arts and Design (NYC), Gallery for Applied Arts (Munich), Art Gallery of Western Australia. Session 7 August 23 - August 29 
Mary Chuduk Mary Chuduk - Picture This: Imagery in Enamel Explore a fresh approach to drawing and painting in enamel using ceramic pencils, line drawing, sepia decals, and painted overglaze colors for delicate color washes and details. Experiment with the subtle and brilliant color of enamels for both representational and abstract imagery on flat and slightly formed copper or silver. Enhance the images with lusters, inlays of metallic foils and leaf, cloisonné wire, and fine copper mesh. Drawing or painting skills will be helpful but are not required. All levels. Code 07ma Studio artist; teaching: Arrowmont (TN), Campbell Folk School (NC), 92nd St. Y (NYC), Fuller Art Center (MA); exhibitions: Craft USA at Silvermine Art Center, Artspace Gallery (Seoul), Mobilia Gallery (MA); author of "Enamel: Technique and Experiments." 
Jana Brevick Jana Brevick - Melt What is the potential for creation when materials are in a transitory state? We will explore the possibilities and limits of gold, silver, and copper through the process of making ingots and alloys, and then working the materials in hard, soft, and melted phases. In this way we will build a sample set of alloys with an understanding of their properties. This will be followed by a general wrangling of ideas and the creation of objects or jewelry. Basic sawing, filing, and soldering skills required. Code 07mb Studio artist; exhibitions: SOIL Backspace Gallery (Seattle), Art Basel South Beach (Miami), Facere Gallery (Seattle); work published in Metalsmith Exhibition in Print, Ornament, "1,000 Rings." |
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