Celebrate Summer Flourish Challenge: The Hole Thing
Share the jewelry you made for the challenge and celebrate with other makers during a gathering in the studio.
Celebrate your achievement with the other makers who stepped up to the latest challenge and made a new piece of jewelry. Exchange ideas, share experiences, and enjoy light snacks. In fact, please join us whether you participated in this challenge or not — you just might get interested in the next!
We’ll announce the theme and due date for the next challenge.
Details
The challenge involves using any process, technique, or material that could be found in a jewelry studio to make a finished piece related to the theme. You can incorporate elements that you’ve made in other studios.
Works from the challenge will be shown in the Jewelry Arts Studio display case as space allows (optional).
Please register by 11:59 PM the day before so we know how many people to plan for.
Class Policies
Ages 14 and up are welcome.
Instructor
Joan Hammond began working in metal in 1994, when she started taking metalsmithing classes as an antidote to documenting computer software. What she discovered was a medium that not only used her training in painting, printmaking, and ceramics, but also opened the possibilities of creating art that can be worn. Family artifacts and history, plants and animals, and the textiles and jewelry of non-Western cultures inspire her current work, which she executes using various fabrication techniques, including chasing and repoussé. Hammond exhibits locally and nationally. Her work has been published in Metalsmith magazine’s Exhibition in Print. She is a member of the Seattle Metals Guild and an active volunteer and instructor at BARN.
Instructor
Ann holds a Master of Fine Arts in printmaking from Tyler School of Art, Temple University, in Philadelphia and a Master of Fine Arts in poetry from Warren Wilson College in North Carolina. Her visual art practice includes artists books, printmaking, and photography, and her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. She has been the recipient of New York Council on the Arts and New York Foundation for the Arts grants, numerous artist residencies, and is represented in museum and individual collections. She taught photography at State University of New York in New Paltz, for 33 years and moved to the Puget Sound area recently from Ashland, Ore., where she also was a volunteer instructor with the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. In the Print & Book Studio, Ann can certify people to use the Takach etching presses.
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