Workshops
Foraging for Form
August 4-8, 2025 (Nature Week)
Touchstone Center for Craft, Farmington, PA
All Levels - $750/non-member tuition, $720 member tuition + $100-$150 Materials and Studio Fees*
Let’s bring observation of the natural world into the studio, inspiring the creation of a small-scale botanical sculpture with an array of metalsmithing techniques. Combining visual thinking strategies with sheet metal forming, non-ferrous forging, Little Torch welding, and bronze brazing, we will consider the many ways to represent organic forms through material. We will explore the direct casting of natural forms using investment molds, as well as combining steel and non-ferrous metals. Come prepared to experiment, explore, and dive deep into the possibilities of using our artistic practice as a vehicle to expand our understanding of the natural world.
Fabulous Non-Ferrous Flora
June 6th- 11th, 2021
Appalachian Center for Craft, Smithville, TN
Use soldering and cold connections to create botanical forms in copper, brass and bronze. Explore pattern making, sheet forming, cold forging and patination while creating a series of floral objects. Through prompts and self-directed inquiry, bring real or imagined flowers to life!
Beginner
$660
Forming Non-Ferrous Flowers
Appalachian Center for Craft
February 29, 2020
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
Non-Ferrous Floral Forming
Arrowmont School of Art and Craft, Gaitlinburg, TN
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