Fine Silver Metal Clay: Making Rings and Setting Stones

Jewelry & Fine Metals

Fine Silver Metal Clay: Making Rings and Setting Stones

Increase your skills in fine silver metal clay by making rings and setting stones.

Tuition Assistance and Other Policies

Meeting Times
  1. Fri, 10/18/2024 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM

Fri, 10/18/2024

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Type:
Class, Has Prerequisite

Location:
Jewelry & Fine Metals Studio

Interests:
Jewelry Making

About

Continue building your basic metal clay skills by making one or two fine-silver clay rings. You’ll learn how to individualize your rings with additional stone-setting techniques, and embellish the surface in several ways, such as using granules (small silver balls) and Keum-boo (gold foil). Keum-boo is an ancient Korean gilding technique.

You’ll also learn how to make molds for adding textures and shapes to your pieces.

Materials

  • A $115 materials fee, included in the cost of the class, covers enough material to complete one or two rings.
  • Please bring a towel for cleanup.

Prerequisites

Class Policies

  • Ages 14 and up are welcome.
  • Wear closed-toe shoes and natural-fiber clothing.
  • Do not wear loose or synthetic-fiber clothing, dangling jewelry, scarves, or ties.
  • Tie back long hair in pony tail or bun.

BARN Policies

Instructors or Guides

Virginia Causey

While teaching has been Virginia's foremost focus for decades, she also finds creating and exhibiting her work locally, nationally, and internationally have been key aspects to her life. Her work starts with detailed record-keeping in sketchbooks on how she views the natural world. Vague sketches develop into line drawings with hints of color. She then continues to draw and write technical and mechanical outlines on how to create the pieces step by step. She began this detailed process when she lost the ability to create three-dimensional rotating and colored images in her mind, which she had believed would be a constant throughout life. "Surprise! I can't quite accomplish it any longer so my pencil became my new best friend," Virginia said. She enjoys pushing herself to an artistic edge to create new and exciting work to be shared with students. Most of her work evolves through a process of trial and error and involves many fabricating skills. She is foremost a teacher, silversmith, and fabricating jeweler who uses non-ferrous metals and stones and who is committed to passing her skills and abilities on to her students.

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