Flower Metal Earrings Workshop
Adult Workshop | Available
Students will make flower earrings out of wire and sheet metal, plus we will have some
commercially made flower stampings. Make simple flower and leaf earrings using wire,
and then saw thin sheet metal into flower and leaf shapes that can be hammer-textured
and shaped to be more 3-dimensional. We will be using brass, bronze, copper and silver
wire and sheet metal. Cost of silver and base metal will run $10 to $30; available for
purchase in class.
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.