Metals Spring Concentration
March 3 – April 26, 2024 (8 Weeks)
Lola Brooks
All You Can Eat: The Blue Plate Special
This workshop will be a feast of technical and conceptual investigation in the metals studio. Students will have the opportunity to explore a wide variety of techniques while working toward a deeper understanding of their own interests in making small objects and jewelry. Focusing on fabrication, we’ll whet our appetites by investigating hollow and wire construction, repetitive elements as structure, forming, mechanisms, and stonesetting. We’ll continue the tasting menu with a week of wax carving and lost-wax casting with guest instructor Suzanne Pugh. Finally for dessert, we’ll sample the delights of color as we explore the basics of working with vitreous enamel. All levels. Upper metals studio. Note: this workshop takes place in a studio that has stairs that compromise access. It is made partially accessible by a stair lift.
This workshop takes place in a ground-level studio with compromised access. It is made partially accessible by a stair lift.
Studio artist; teaching: University of Georgia, Cranbrook (MI), Rhode Island School of Design, University of the Arts (Philadelphia); collections: Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Yale University Art Gallery (CT), Museum of Arts and Design (NYC), Metropolitan Museum (NYC); representation Sienna Patti Contemporary (MA).
