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Workshops

 

Georgia Goldsmiths Group provides metalsmithing workshops to educate its members and the public. To sign up for a workshop, click on the Register button to obtain a printable form.  

To view photos from past workshops, click below the photo. Artist information or the artist's website can be viewed by clicking artists names that are highlighted.

       
  2008 Workshops    
       
  Ancient Chains with Jean Stark
Date: March 10-14, 2008
Location:  Rocksprings Presbyterian Church
For details Contact:  Alan Bremer (404) 872-3001		    
       
  Forging & Forming Intensive 2 with John Cogswell
Date: Feb 18-22, 2008
Location:  Rocksprings Presbyterian Church
For details Contact:  Alan Bremer (404) 872-3001		    
       
  2007 Workshops    
       
 

Found Object Sandwich Workshop with Thomas Mann
 Date: December 13 - December  14
Location:  Atlanta Artworx, Marietta, GA
For details contact: www.atlantaartworx.com
Explore the design concepts and fabrication techniques important to an assemblage approach to jewelry making. Mann will lead workshop participants in the creation of their own found object creations. Students will design and fabricate a personal wearable expression.

Container to Wear Workshop with Thomas Mann
Date:  December 15 - December 16
Location:  Atlanta Artworx, Marietta, GA
For details contact: www.atlantaartworx.com

Students of ALL skill levels are invited to learn a unique approach to creating containers - employing cold connections in the creation of wearable jewelry objects, conceptual and abstract to figurative and narrative. Thomas Mann has explored the concepts of containers throughout his career - from the size of a ring to that of a building.
 

    
       
  Forging  with John Cogswell
Date: Feb 19-23, 2007
Location:  tbd
Fee:  $370.00

Forging is probably the oldest metalworking technique.  It is the classic method by which metalsmiths  hammer-form wire stock, ingots or rod into elegant, tapered (often flexible) forms such as neckpieces and bracelets.  It is also ideally suited for the production of larger-scale flatware pieces.  Forging is essentially a two-stage process: first, a metal rod or billet is shaped by a series of sequential hammering operations transforming it into an object possessing varied structural cross-sections and fluid graceful contours.  In the final stages,  the surface is refined by “planishing,” leaving a subtle reflective hammer-textured surface. Forging produces forms, usually requiring little or no soldering to produce, which are elegant, lightweight, structural.  Contrary to popular misconception, forging does not require great physical strength or body mass.  When used properly, the hammer and anvil do all the work.

  

       
  2006 Workshops    
       
  Patterning & Fusing Sterling Silver with Marne Ryan
Date: Dec. 13-16, 2006
Location: Roswell Visual Arts Center; Roswell, GA
Fee: $470.00
Check out Marne's website: www.marneryan.com 		   
       
  3-D Forms with John Cogswell
Date: Feb 27- March 3, 2006
Location:  Peachtree Hills Recreation Center, 308 Peachtree Hills Ave NE, Atlanta, GA 30305
Fee:  $340
Explore three closely related, yet distinctly different, processes for creating dimensional metal forms: fold-forming, shell-forming and hollow construction.
 		  

       
 

2005 Workshops

    
       
  Wax Carving with Mickey Johnston
Date:  Fall 2005
 		  

 

Intermediate Repousse with Valentin Yotkov
Date: April 28-May 1, 2005
Location: Carlos Museum, Emory University
Fee: $450.00 Members, $475.00 non-members

  


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  Tool Making for Chasing & Repousse with Gary Abbott
Date: April 16, 2005
Location: Just For Fun; Doraville, GA
Fee: 		   
  Rings Workshop with John Cogswell
Date: Feb 28-March 4, 2005
Location: Roswell Visual Arts Center; Rosewell, GA
Fee: $320.00
 		  

 
 

2004 Workshops

 

    
 

Hinged Boxes with John Cogswell
Date: Feb 23-27, 2004
Location: Roswell Visual Arts Center; Rosewell, GA
Fee: $320.00
 

  

 
  Beginning Chasing and Repousse with Valentin Yotkov
Date: Nov 18-21, 2004
Location: Roswell Visual Arts Center; Rosewell, GA
Fee: $480.00
 		  


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2003 Workshops

 

    
  Flatware Workshop with John Cogswell
Date: Feb 25-March 1, 2003
Location: Chastain Arts Center: Atlanta, GA
Fee:
 		  


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  Ancient Rings with Jean Stark
Date: April 21-25, 2003
Location: Roswell Visual Arts Center; Rosewell, GA
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