Course Description:
Create unique 3D forms for jewelry and objects by learning to combine hammered metal forms with construction techniques. Perfect your soldering skills by learning to properly fit complex curves and edges. Forming processes include sinking, raising, fold-forming, anticlastic forming, and forging.
Skill Level: Intermediate/Advanced
Course Description:
Start with the essentials of applying colorful glass to a metal base, and then learn several techniques to embellish the surface by layering transparent colors and imagery. The possibilities are endless! Make jewelry, bowls, tiles, and more.
Skill Level: All Levels
Course Description:
Perfect for beginners interested in learning how to make one-of-a-kind jewelry. Learn basic fabrication skills, such as using a jeweler’s saw, drilling, finishing, soldering, riveting, basic stone setting and color on metal techniques. Expect to complete your own bracelets, rings, necklaces and more!
Skill Level: Beginner
Course Description:
Course Description:
Realize your creative vision in sculpture while advancing your knowledge of hand building with clay. You will receive personalized guidance and advice about constructing for the kiln. An artwork, either historical or contemporary, will be presented each week for inspiration. No experience is necessary.
Skill Level: All Levels
Course Description:
Realize your creative vision in sculpture while advancing your knowledge of hand building with clay. You will receive personalized guidance and advice about constructing for the kiln. An artwork, either historical or contemporary, will be presented each week for inspiration. No experience is necessary.
Skill Level: All Levels
Course Description:
No previous sculpting experience is necessary as many of the fundamentals will be reviewed as needed by instructor based on previous teaching of Sheila Oettinger, Barbara Goldsmith and Shengsheng Xu over the past two decades at EAC. Explore your particular style while considering the form and proportions and gesture of the model’s pose.“Please bring a sketchbook for 5 or 6 quick sketches to start each class and for studies of each pose.
Skill Level: All Levels
Course Description:
Have you ever looked at the surface of a coin and wondered how the artist created that intricate portrait image on such a flat surface? Learn about the theory of relief sculpture along with the various types of bas relief sculpture. As Inspiration for your work, Images of reliefs from both the historical and the contemporary prospectives will be shown. Also, learn about line weight, texture, and detail treatment. You will be guided through the process of subtractive and additive sculpting.
Course Description:
Unleash your creative intuition and transform the beauty of nature into ceramic sculpture. In this hands-on course, you will learn to abstract and reinterpret organic shapes and textures, using hand-building techniques to create a truly unique sculpture. Discover your personal artistic voice and craft a final piece that reflects your own deep connection to the natural world.
Skill Level: All Levels
Course Description:
This is for those interested in studio access without instruction. Anyone enrolling must adhere to EAC’s studio policies on materials, clean-up, and entrance and exit procedures. Prerequisite: students enrolled in Independent Study must have completed one Figure Sculpture class at EAC. Time depends on class schedules and will be determined in the first week of class.
