Try Your Hand at Metalsmithing Workshop
Adult | Registration opens 11/17/2025 8:00 PM EST
Students will learn about basic metalsmithing techniques, including working with wire to create simple jewelry and shaping sheet metal. Learn to cut, texture with hammers, drill, and connect pieces using ear wires or links. Using simple hand tools, students will work with copper and brass provided in class to create their own unique pieces. $25 per student for copper, brass, a limited amount of sterling wire, and beads.
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.