Workshops
Forming Non-Ferrous Flowers
Appalachian Center for Craft
February 29
9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Forming Flowers with Anne Bujold
Use hammers and forming stakes to transform flat sheet metal into botanical forms. Develop volume, planish and refine forms while creating organic shapes in copper. - $85, fee includes all material
Forging Ferrous Flowers
Appalachian Center for Craft
Weekend - May 22-24, 2020
Forging Flowers
Explore blacksmithing techniques through the creation of organic forms. Combine traditional joinery, contemporary patina processes and sheet forming to create several steel flowers.
Beginner
$350; Additional materials fee payable to instructor - NONE
Previous workshops
Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts
November 14th-17th, 2019
In this workshop students explore sheet metal forming and cold forging techniques in non-ferrous metals. Looking to the natural world for inspiration, participants will create a variety of organic elements, such as flower and plant forms, to be incorporated into jewelry or sculpture. Utilizing stakes, hammers and anvils to create shapes, you will manipulate metal into curves and lines. You will also use soldering and cold connections. Open to all skill levels.
$400