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Creative Shell Raising
August 9 & 10, 2008 - CLASS IS FULL

Faux Bone
September 27 & 28, 2008

THIS CLASS IS FULL

Creative Shell Raising
Instructor: Harland Taylor
August 9 & 10, 2008
Where: Maryville University Metals Studio
Cost of class: $150 plus kit fee.*


This is a two day hands on workshop in which will offer information and techniques that are usually presented in a four day format. Shell raising includes both synclastic and anticlastic techniques. Anticlastic will be stressed more than synclastic since its techniques tend to be more useful in creating jewelry and sculpture. However, knowledge of how to make vessel shapes provide additional forms for the design of jewelry and sculpture.

The following following topics will be covered:
• Altering and polishing tools, and making your own stakes and hammers out of wood and plastic.
• Basic synclastic and anticlastic raising-- similarities and differences.
• How to make a cuff bracelet and creative variations.
• Finally, the hardest project will be making a helix shape.

*Kit costs may vary due to fluctuations in the metals market.

SIGN UP STARTS AUGUST 15, 2008

Faux Bone Workshop
Instructor: Robert Dancik
Date: September 27-28, 2008
Where: Maryville University, Metals Studio
Cost of class: $250 fee includes the kit
Start date postmark, August 15, 2008.
Applications postmarked before the start date will be
returned.

Download a PDF workshop application form here

In this very hands-on workshop, we will explore Faux Bone, a new, friendly and extremely versatile material. Faux Bone can be cut, and carved, sawn and sanded. It can be filed, hammered, polished, drilled, stamped, inlayed, dyed, and painted. It can look like ivory, have the patina of aged ceramic, or be polished to a pure white. You can heat and bend it with nothing more than a small embossing heat-gun. It is so strong you can rivet on it, die form right into it, or hammer metal around it. Faux Bone is perfect for artwork as varied as jewelry and book making, sculpture, or printmaking. It can be easily embossed to make texture plates for PMC and basket makers can use it to simulate Scrimshaw
on the tops of Nantucket Baskets. In this workshop, we will explore these possibilities and more. Students can expect to leave with a number of examples and/or finished projects.

Included in the price of the class is: 1 piece each of 1/16”, 1/8”, and 1/4” x8” Faux Bone.

Size of class is limited to 16 workshop participants which includes two students.

Download a PDF workshop application form here