The Marriage Of Metals
Adult Workshop | Available
Learn ways to add pattern and color to your metal. We’ll do mock inlay which is soldering wire or sheet to heavy sheet metal and rolling it through a rolling mill. Students will learn to solder inlay by filling dents in sheet metal with gold or silver solder to create a dot effect or add another color. Solder twisted wire together and roll it out to get a lovely wood grain pattern. We will use copper, brass, bronze, nickel and silver. If you wanted to add some gold to silver, it will add a lovely touch. We’ll do keumboo, an ancient Korean process of fusing pure gold onto silver using a hotplate. 14g and 16g sheet will be used, plus 14g to 20g wire for inlay. Instructor will have a limited supply of assorted sheet metal and wire on hand for students to purchase. $5 to $35 for estimated materials per student.
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.