Working With Gold Workshop
Adult Workshop | This class has been canceled
Want to try your hand at working with gold, or adding it to your silver jewelry? This workshop is ideal for anyone who wants to step up their bench working skills and expand their metal palette. An overview of the different karats of each alloy will be covered but we will work mostly in 14kt yellow gold. The instructor will demonstrate soldering gold to silver, the behavioral differences between gold and silver solder, how to solder bezels and set stones in gold. We will make gold bezels and learn to add gold settings to jewelry. We can recycle old gold jewelry to make ingots used to produce wire, bezel, beads for accenting silver, etc. Surface embellishment such as Keumboo will be covered. Estimated cost of gold supplies - $25-200.
Joy Raskin
JOY RASKIN is one of the youngest craftspeople to be accepted into the League of NH Craftsmen in 1986 after completing a BFA from RISD and a MFA from UMass Dartmouth, focusing on flatware (and earned the nickname "Spoon Lady"!). After a short stint as a bench jeweler for several fine jewelry stores, repairing jewelry, she went back to making flatware full-time after winning an Individual Artist Fellowship from the NH Council for the Arts in 1995. Winning the Individual Artist Fellowship gave her the boost to go sell her artwork throughout the US doing fine craft shows. In 1996, she started teaching jewelry making/metalsmithing at a local art college and branched out to teaching all over NH, MA and CT. She’s also a creative teacher, teaching a broad range of jewelry and silversmithing techniques at various schools in New England. She's currently working full time as a metalsmith in her studio, teaching metalsmithing and working as a goldsmith for a local gallery.