All in Jewelry
Barbara Mann, one of our CAST contributors, will be teaching a one-day cuttlefish casting workshop on July 21 at the Greenville Center for Creative Arts in Greenville, SC.
This ancient and fascinating approach to casting. Cuttlefish casting creates a beautiful woodgrain-esque surface on metal and is a direct and satisfying way to cast metal at a jewelry scale.
Demitra Thomloudis, one of our contributing artists, will be teaching "Culling the Sand: Site, Place and Identity" at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts August 12-18. Demi is a pioneer of interesting casting techniques for jewelry, including her ingenious use of cement. This class will include moldmaking and plastic casting for jewelry.
If you're interested in learning to carve wax to make cast jewelry, you can't do better than learning from Kate Wolf. Here's a list of her remaining 2018 workshops, most of which are held in her Portland, Maine studio. Bonus: two video clips of Kate in action!
This is the halfway point reporting on Mary Hallam Pearse’s class at the Penland School of Crafts. So far, the class has done plaster moldmaking, centrifugal casting, and induction vacuum casting. They've worked with carving wax, investment core casting to create hollow forms, patty cake silicone molds and water soluble wax for investment cores.
