Stone, Shell and Silver: Lapidary Jewelry with Jamie Halpern & Susie Sawin – G25070201
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This is an intermediate/advanced course in jewelry-making and lapidary art for students who already have basic silversmith skills. Students will learn lapidary and silver channel inlay construction using semi-precious stones and shell. Students will leave the class with wearable jewelry art and a discovery of their own creative potential. To be fair for all students in the class, students may be asked about their silversmith experience prior to their enrollment confirmation to ensure that all students have the minimum necessary skills for this class.
The fully-equipped Ghost Ranch jewelry studio provides a wonderful opportunity for students to learn the skills and techniques of advanced silver jewelry-making in an awe-inspiring location with a long history in the creative arts. Ghost Ranch is a place of beauty and serenity that nurtures the creative spirit with a lengthy history in the creative arts. Silversmith students come away from this class with unimagined creations, a proud sense of accomplishment, and a personal connection to the arts of the Southwest.
Instructors
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Jamie HalpernJamie Halpern is an accomplished silversmith, lapidary artist and metalsmith instructor. His work reflects southwestern art and jewelry-making styles and is influenced by travels throughout the United States, the South Pacific and Europe. Working with silver and colorful semi-precious stones through metal fabrication and inlay, and through his teachings with beginning and advanced jewelry students and artists, Jamie celebrates creativity and personal exploration and nurtures artistic expression. His jewelry is sold through private commissions. He has taught silversmithing and lapidary art at Ghost Ranch for a number of years to rave reviews and testaments to how professional pieces can be crafted with focused time. Examples of Jamie’s work can be found at: Jehalpernjewelry.com.
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Susie SawinSusie Sawin started her study of silversmithing and lapidary arts under the wonderful instruction of Dale Smith and Judith Foster at Ghost Ranch. Over the past 12 years, Susie has continued to explore and refine her skills both at the ranch and at her studio at home. She loves the confluence of technical challenge and artistic freedom that comes when silver and stone is brought together in a piece of art. Susie’s jewelry has been featured at local galleries and shows around her hometown and examples can be seen online at susiesawin.com. When not in her silver studio, Susie is a practicing dentist and mom to two grown humans and three dogs in Columbus, Indiana.