Symposium Classes 2012
Awaken Your Creativity
Catches, Findings & Mechanisms
Chasing, Engraving & Saw Piercing
Chasing and Repoussé
Fold Forming
Gem Carving
Imaginative Captures
Inventive Forming
Multiples, Dies, Patterns, and Keum-boo
Prepare for Success
Surfaces
Stone & Metal
Stone Setting & Saw Piercing
Torch Fired Enameling
with Michael Boyd
| April 21-22, 2012 from 9 am - 5 pm | $449 + kit |
This is an opportunity to learn how to cut, carve, and manipulate gemstones using a flex shaft and other basic hand tools. Instruction covers drilling holes, cutting, carving, and how to use epoxies and cold connections that are simple and elegant yet effective. Increase the range of your skills and potential by learning how to use your flex shaft to open up the world of color and textures that gems offer. Walk away with a set of samples to take home. Prerequisite: Fabrication 1 or experience.
Michael Boyd will also teach Stone & Metal: Lapidary for Jewelers.
Michael Boyd is a unique metal and stone artist who has mastered both media and brought them together in new ways. Michael’s work is highly respected and has been shown at top galleries and exhibitions, including SOFA and the Museum of Art and Design (formerly the American Craft Museum).