The Jetsons Salad Servers by Joy Raskin Photo by Charley Freiberg

Level: Intermediate
Requirements: Jewelry I or Equivalent
Program: Spring
Status: Closed
Length: 8 Sessions
Tuition: $ 375
Materials: $ 50
Date: April 21, 2008 - June 16, 2008
Time: Every Monday at 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Location: Metalwerx

Come and learn how to turn typical kitchen utensils into eye-catching artwork. Create your own flatware such as salad servers, forks, butter knives, and baby spoons in a fraction of the time traditional hand forged methods would take you.

Joy Raskin will show you simple metalsmithing techniques to form, solder, and fabricate utensils that combine function and design.

"Flatware should not only be useful, but should also be a pleasure to use, and even play with... I want each piece to make it's own statement." - Joy Raskin.

See more of Joy's work on her website at: www.joyraskin.com

This class is 8 sessions long.  Each session is 3 hours. There will be no class on may 26, 2008 (Columbus Day). If a make-up class is necessary, it will be held on June 23, 2008.

Materials & Tools

We will be working in brass so that you will have enough material to explore multiple full-size pieces. Students who also wish to work in silver may provide their own materials. Towards the end of the class, we will learn about options for having our finished work silver-plated by a commercial service.

The $50 Materials fee covers the cost of metals, wire, solder, and other basic supplies you will use to work on the projects for this class.

Students should bring:

• Shop towel
• Your favorite jewelry making tools, including any forming hammers you might already own
• Notebook and pencil
• If you have weak wrists, you might consider wearing a wrist brace to class