Combining Gold & Silver Workshop
Adult Workshop | Available
Are you ready to work with gold and add accents to your silver? By using gold from old gold jewelry, we can melt dow the gold, make it into wire and beads to add to silver. We will also do keum-boo, a way of bonding pure gold to silver. Adding a little gold to silver jewelry is a effective way to upgrading your silver. We will also solder on gold tubing and gold bezels. Bring in any old gold jewelry you want to use to add to your silver. Experience level - must have basic jewelrymaking experience. Estimated cost of gold supplies - $15-150
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.