Come and explore the colorful, fun world of using resin to enhance your jewelry making skills! Instead of using stones to set in jewelry, we'll be using resin to inlay multi-media treasures such as items from nature, paper collage, and objects d'arts ? Using 2-part quick-setting epoxy, we will add paint, herbs, tea leaves, colored powder, glitter, and more, mix the epoxy and color together, and apply it to jewelry. Works great for jewelry with cold connections, texture, recessed areas, empty stone settings, and anything else that you want to try.
The instructor will provide epoxy and some coloring agents, but students should feel free to bring anything that they want to add to epoxy to make resin-filled jewelry. Even twigs have been used for resin jewelry!
More experienced students can make their own bezels, otherwise the instructor will supply.
This is a really fun and cool class for those curious to explore the medium of resin and to combine paper arts, found materials and metalsmithing.
This class is for all levels including total beginners.
Please read ourClass Attendee Policy, which includes our cancellation policy, before registering.
Location: Ground floor Metalsmithing Shop.
Class Size: minimum 4 and maximum 8. Age Group: 18+
Registration Fee: $150 non-members and $135 members.
Non-members will need to sign our General Waiver prior to class.
Materials Fee: Instructor provides pre-made rings and pendants that students can use to add resin and color, so the hard work is done. $25 per student for resin/supplies. Payable to instructor at the beginning of the class by cash, check or Venmo.
Instructor: Joy Raskin
Joy is a juried member of the League of NH Craftsmen and is a native of NH. She has been a silversmith since 1984, and has exhibited throughout the US, Ireland and New Zealand. Joy was accepted as a member of the League while still in high school. She received her BFA from RISD, and her MFA from the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth.
Joy is an instructor at The Craft Center of the LNHC in Concord, NH, Metalwerx in Waltham, MA, at Brookfield Craft Center in Brookfield, CT, at Guilded Lynx, Ridgefield, CT, Silvermine Art Center in New Canaan, CT, and Lexington Arts and Crafts Society as well. She was commissioned by the NH State Council on the Arts to create the Cultural Access Award for the Governors Awards in the Arts in 2001. Her work is included in many collections, including the White House, Smithsonian Institution, the permanent collection at the Currier Museum of Art, and Racine Art Museum.
