Wire Chain Making Workshop

Wire Chain Making Workshop

Adult Workshop | Available

Adult all levels

6/1/2024 (one day)

10:00 AM-4:00 PM EDT on Sat

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$230.00

$207.00

Explore chain making with wire, hand tools and a little imagination to build samples. Learn how to make the Egyptian spiral chain, Viking (knitted) chain, wire wrapped links with beads and basic link chains. Learn to master the manipulation of wire of different gauges as you wrap, bend, knit, hammer and spiral your way to a finished piece. Leave with at least one finished necklace, a complete supplier list and many new tricks to transform your purchase or handcrafted beads into earrings, bracelets, necklaces and much, much more! Materials fee payable to instructor: $25.00.

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.