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Stackable Rings
This one-day workshop on stackable rings will show students how to size, solder and embellish up to 6 individual rings. Explore basic stone setting, roller printing, texturing and stamping to manipulate and add onto each ring band.
This class is open to beginning students of all levels. It is a quick intro class to several very important techniques used in metalsmithing.
Meet the instructor
Brie Flora is a contemporary jeweler and educator currently living in east Tennessee. Brie is a graduate from Massachusetts College of Art and Design with a dual degree in Metalsmithing & Jewelry and Art Education May 2015. Her wearable jewelry plays with symmetry and consists heavily of line work, negative space, patterns, and color. She pulls elements from nature, fantasy, & fiction to create unique works of wearable art with a minimalist aesthetic balanced with pops of intricate marks and illustrations.
Brie has been featured in over 10 group exhibitions, recently including Touchy Feely at the Baltimore Jewelry Center in Baltimore MD, and HOTDOG! Show Chicago at the Ornament and Object gallery, Chicago IL. She also created and curated the first vol. of “Guidelines – A contemporary jewelry project” that featured works by 15 jewelers and makers including herself. “Guidelines” was on view during Adorned Spaces at the 2019 SNAG Conference in Chicago, and then up for a month-long exhibition at the Appalachian Center for Craft in Smithville, TN (for more information go to @guidelines_jewelry on Instagram).
Materials & Tools
A materials fee of $40 is payable upon registration. It includes plenty of sterling silver wire and some sheet, stones and materials for bezel setting, polishing supplies, saw blades, copper and other miscellaneous supplies for projects.
- Pencil, sketchbook
- Ultra fine-point Sharpie permanent marker
- Items that provide texture, such as feathers, lace, fabric, etc. NO STEEL! Whatever you use will be destroyed, so no family heirloom lace, please.
- Safety glasses or reading glasses for working up close. Metalwerx has some available to use, but please bring a pair if you prefer your own.
- If students already have metalworking experience and want to bring their favorite hand tools, they are welcome to. It is not necessary for students to bring tools. Metalwerx has plenty available for use at class.