Summer 2009Metal Jewelry (Grades: 5-8)Learn to make jewelry the way professionals do, using authentic jewelers' tools and basic metalsmithing techniques without soldering or power tools. Work with brass, copper and semi-precious gems to create necklaces, pins, bracelets, earrings or small sculptures. Learn to use pliers for bending wire to define lines and create form and use hammers to create texture and shape. Advanced work available for repeat students. Prerequisite(s): (Grades: 4-8)
Instructor: Miranda Hope
Miranda Hope, B.F.A, studied jewelry and metal arts at the California College of the Arts and designs jewelry for art collectives around the Bay Area.
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