Making Beautiful, Layered, Sculptural Jewelry with Douglas Wonder
Where: Virtual
When:
Sunday, January 19, 2025
Sunday, January 26, 2025
1:00 – 3:00 pm central time both Sundays
Workshop will be recorded and available for 30 days after sessions.
This virtual workshop, taught by Douglas Wunder, is intended to familiarize students with an understanding how to make layered sculptural jewelry designs that incorporate the use of mixed metals. Students will learn how to draw visual concepts/designs and then how to properly develop them into metal objects using the techniques of piercing, sawing, and cold connecting with riveting. Clever uses of texturing and altering metal surfaces will be explored. The workshop will also feature heat coloring and anodizing titanium and how to merge the metal in jewelry designs to add a dynamic effect. The techniques demonstrated throughout the workshop will provide a range of transferable skills that can be applied to other forms of jewelry making. Participants are encouraged to come with an imaginative, experimental approach to jewelry making.
Skill Levels:
All Levels of Students
Cost:
Member price is $155
Non-member price is $180
(Join WIM for $30 a year)
Student Guide/Supply List:
Student Workshop Guide.pdf
About Douglas Wunder:
edouglaswunder.com/about-the-artist
Contact: mfitzmier@gmail.com if you have any immediate questions.
Note: If you have PayPal we recommend you pay for the workshop using that. A couple of people have reported issues with PayPal taking their credit cards and sending them errors.
What members are saying...
WIM has been a source of inspiration, motivation, development and friendship during the past 2 1/2 years. I believe my metals skills have developed in wildly unexpected ways because of my collaboration with members of the WIM community. They have encouraged me to explore different ways of thinking about the metal arts and to embrace critique as the impetus to grow.
— Martha
I’m a better metalsmith because of the group. Activities, group classes, discussions, show and tell bring new ideas.
— Judi
I was hesitant to join WIM because many of the members are such fantastic metalsmiths and I am a mediocre sometime art jeweler. I quickly discovered how welcoming and helpful the members are to members at all levels. The more I attended WIM events, the more my metal skills improved.
— Theresa
I am a WIM member because it provides me a support system in continuing education, allowing me to expand my metalsmithing techniques, providing me feed back with design ideas and a group of talented artists who are my friends.
— Kerri