No Experience-Beginner $60-$110 Materials and Studio Fees*
Explore materials to make body adornments that evoke memories and investigate the impact of body adornment on memory. Bring materials and objects from home that you want to transform and discover how sight, smell, taste, hearing, and touch work with memory in the context of the form of jewelry. Basic metalsmithing techniques will be covered, including sawing, filing, annealing, drilling, chain-making, and patina, as well as work with cold connections, including riveting, tab constructions, and jump rings.
*Materials and studio fees are charged to students based on studio usage and materials Touchstone is providing at the request of the instructor. Additionally, some instructors may also require that you bring certain materials and tools with you, in which case a list will be provided. Final cost of these fees will be posted at least two weeks ahead of the workshop to be paid in full prior to check-in.
MATERIAL LIST
WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS should bring the following materials for the workshop
*It is recommended that you wait to hear if the workshop is running before you purchase materials. Touchstone will let you know if a workshop is running no later than 2 weeks before the start of the class. Regardless of the outcome of the class, running or not, Touchstone is not responsible for the reimbursement of any materials bought for a workshop.
- Any of your own personal tools that you wish to use (Optional)
- Non-ferrous metals students wish to use -such as Copper, Brass, (Base metals) Sterling silver sheet 16 gauge – 22 gauge, wire 18 – 12 gauge
Can we purchased at: Rio Grande | Wholesale Jewelry Making Supplies & Services
- Bundles of saw blades #2/0 – #3/0 (It is just a suggested number for students who has never worked with jeweler’s saw)
Can we purchased at: Rio Grande | Wholesale Jewelry Making Supplies & Services
- sheets Emery wet and dry sand papers #400 (It is just a suggested number for students who has never worked with metal)
Suggested purchase: Hermes WS Flex Silicon Carbide Abrasive Paper – RioGrande
- 1 foot each of Hard, Medium and Easy wire silver solder
Suggested purchase: Silver Wire Solder, 22 Ga. – RioGrande
- 5 Objects and/or non-metal materials students wish to use for their projects about memory (Examples: photograph, plastic toy, old jewelry, a part of clothing or furniture, stuffed animal, tea, cloth, etc. We will probably cut and/or take a part in order to make it wearable with fabricated metal components, so bring objects possible to be deconstructed)
- Roll of masking tape 3/4” wide
- Safety glasses
- Sketch book, Pen, Pencil
- Apron (Optional)
- Reusable Water Bottle
Suggested Reading
- Book:Mourning Art & Jewelry by Maureen DeLorme, ISBN: 0764319647
- Book:See Yourself Sensing: Redefining Human Perception by Madeline Schwartzman, ISBN: 1907317295
- Podcast: https://hiddenbrain.org/podcast/the-good-old-days/ (to think about the body, materials, memory and etc…)
Download this list: Memory Senses and the Body_Materials List
