In this listing, official PSG workshops are labeled with our logo. Most PSG workshops take place at Bucks County Community College in Newtown, PA. unless otherwise noted. Workshop supply lists are put on our website as soon as possible, and are always available from Allcraft Tools (212-279-7077) in kit form. Workshops begin at 11:00 AM on Saturday, until approximately 5:30 PM. We have dinner at a local restaurant with the artist, and you are encouraged to join us.   

Sunday morning workshops start at 10:00 AM and run until approximately 5:00 PM. Lunch of pizza, hoagies, or salad is provided free of charge both days. Our workshops fill quickly, and we also keep a waiting list, so please feel free to sign up at any time.

To sign up for any workshops, download our workshop registration page and mail with your check to Lexi Erickson, 4564 Par Court, Center Valley, PA.   For info on workshops, call 610-573-3841.   

To register for upcoming workshops, please print out and mail our workshop registration form.

General questions about PSG workshops can be sent to: workshops@pagoldsmiths.org

For directions to Bucks County Community College, click here.

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Silver In The Americas: The International Context
    Friday, May 2, 2008
    Remis Auditorium, 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
    Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Take part in a day-long symposium devoted to new scholarly research on the production, use, and consumption of silver in North, Central and South America at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The day's  sessions will address silver from Central and South America, the incorporation of international influences into the work of early nineteenth-century silversmiths, including the role of St. Louis as a cultural crossroads, and an exploration of the international context of twentieth-century silver, with examinations of silver at the World's Fairs and the Danish style in America.

Symposium will coincide with the publication of Silver of the Americas, 1600-2000, a catalogue of
the silver acquired by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, since 1972. The book includes key works from colonial Massachusetts, from Central and South America, as well as works of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The day will conclude with a panel discussion by the book's authors and a reception, and will allow time for audience questions and discussion.

To download more information: Cick here

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"Moving Metal Taos"
Hydraulic Die Forming Classes
David B. Anderson 

May 5th to 9th: Beginning Hydraulic Die Forming
May 12th to 16th: Intermediate Hydraulic Die Design (Secrets Revealed)

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October 20th to 24th: Beginning Hydraulic Die Forming
October 27th to 31st: Advanced Hydraulic Die Forming

Cost per class:  $695.00 + Tax

Learn all there is to know about using the biggest hammer in the shop.  Understand all the safety issues and learn how to care for your press and tooling.  Explore, design and create using embossing techniques, simple silhouette dies and progress to complex conforming, blanking and coining dies.  Get hands on experience using all the latest types of synclastic and anticlastic bracelet forming dies.  

Learn to use the various types of urethane including when to use the different thicknesses and hardness's to achieve your desired effect.  Form boxes will be used to contain the elastic properties of urethane and achieve maximum volume.  The complete deep draw tooling sets will be used to quickly turn flat disks of metal into vessels, seamless tubing for ring stock and boxes.

All die forming classes are 5 day classes scheduled for the "Off Season" to allow ease of travel and accommodations.  The classes are being limited to 6 per class giving students much more personalized instruction and allowing them to have much more hands-on, individualized instruction with the presses.  

For more information contact:

David B. Anderson
119 Quesnel St,
Suite C,
Taos, New Mexico 87571
757-751-3982

dba-newmex.com

www.DavidBAndersonGoldsmith.com

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"Rio Rewards"
PMC Certification Workshop
with Chris Darway

May 16,17,18, 2008
Friday through Sunday 10 am to 6 pm.

Rio Grande's "Rio Rewards" PMC Certification Program is designed for the serious and dedicated PMC enthusiast who seeks the recognition that a standardized level of expertise offers.  Taught by world -class instructors, the curriculum is demanding and tests specific skills and techniques (apart from artistry) for working with PMC over the course of three days.  

Students who complete certification leave the class equipped with advanced skills and knowledge, prepared to teach PMC classes and to incorporate PMC into their own work.  Students should have considerable working experience with the product and should be comfortable with techniques such as joining, slip joining, hollow forms, rings construction, rolling out equal thicknesses of clay, stamping textures and working with two-and three-dimensional forms.  

 Visit Rio Grande for more information click here

Adornment Craft Center & Gallery
3600 Clipper Mill Rd., Suite 130
Baltimore, MD 21211
www.madeinmetal.net
410.662.6623

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Woven and Plaited Structures in Metal
with Arline Fisch

May 17 and 18, 2008
9:00 AM to 5:00 PM.

Hosted by the Chicago Metal Arts Guild

    Ms. Fisch is internationally known as an innovator and teacher,
    author of works including "Elegant Fantasy" "Textile Techniques in
    Metal; for Jewelers, Textile Artists and Sculptors"

    This two day workshop will be at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago, Illinois.

The cost is $325 for CMAG members or $360 for non-members.

    For more information, contact Sue Shaffer, Click here

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Micki Lippe
 Niello and Kum-Bu
 
 Sunday and Monday, May 18 & 19, 2008
 10:00 to 5:00 p.m. each day

 Location: 135 West 29th Street (next door to Allcraft)
                Suite 204, second floor
                New York, NY

Cost: $175 and includes supplies.

 Niello is a deep black alloy, used to fill recesses as decoration on Sterling silver.  
Very complex designs can be produced creating a black design against the metal base.
Kum- Bu is the application of high karat gold sheet to a metal object.
 
 Students may be at beginning level in ability.
 
 For more information and to register for this workshop, call:  

Micki Lippe - 206-940-5828
 mickilippe@comcast.net
www.looselyhinged.com

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Brian Adam
Eclectic Eyewear:  Make a Spectacle

July 7 - 11. 2008

Location: Series Summer School at Red Deer College, Alberta Canada,
   

Learn to make eyeglasses and make a spectacle!

    We'll cover frame-building techniques and the optical rules involved in designing functional and comfortable prescription eyeglasses.

    As jewellery artists already you may quite easily apply your capable skills to making eyewear by first overcoming any concerns you may have about the optical rules. I will demystify that whole area and give  some really useful guidelines to encourage you to go for it.

    The course covers:  

• Historical and contemporary eyewear overview. • Frames - designing for lenses, eyewire channel and monofilament nylon. • Lenses - shaping, edging, grooving, drilling, tapping, colouring. •• Soldering with precision. • Optical bits and pieces.

  
    Bring a mirror to prop up in front of you on the workbench.

    Red Deer College course no 841: Click here.

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Thomas Mann
Design for Survival

July 19-20, 2008

This dynamic and motivating 2-day workshop presented by Thomas Mann will help all artists better understand what it takes to be successful business people.  The workshop is for experienced and aspiring artists of any medium.

Through Design for Survival, Thomas Mann shares his 30+ years of experience in the crafts field with other professional craft and fine artists.  During the workshop he delivers a broad range of artist survival information in a conceptual blockbusting format.  Some of the many topics include identifying your design vocabulary, marketing, public relations, and pricing.

Location: The Baum School
Cost: $280, including lunch on both days. 

Discounted room rates have been arranged for people staying in town.   PSG members will be able to reserve their spots in the workshop before registration is opened to the public.  This workshop fills up very quickly.   To ensure that you do not miss out, please register before April 1
(this is when open registration begins).

To register, call The Baum at 610-433-0032

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Alloying and Rolling Mill Workshop

    August 2-3, 2008 9AM-6PM,
at Montrose, PA. Montrose is in
    Northeastern PA.

    This is a 2 day intensive workshop with the Rolling Mill Master, Jay
    Whaley. Jay will be teaching us how to take 24K Gold & Fine Silver &
    alloy them to 18K & 14K Gold, & Sterling Silver. We will then melt
    the alloys and pour them into sheet & wire ingot molds.  The resulting ingots
will be rolled to create various sheet and wire products, and will be made into
finished jewelry.

   Class size is limited to10 students, so sign up now if interested:

Char overturf
570-388-2892
www.ejewelryoriginals.com
e-mail: char@ejewelryoriginals.com

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Chris Darway
Jewelry Mechanisms

August 30 & 31:  9 am to 5 pm

Location: Jewelry Studio, Millersville University

Cost: PA Guild of Craftsmen member: $205*, Nonmember: $220*
*There is a $55 material fee made payable to the instructor at the time of the workshop.
Price may change based on fluctuations for the price of silver.

Do you want to make a sterling silver plunger clasp and the stainless steel compression spring that goes in it? This is the class to take.  We will make at least three different types of mechanisms for use in jewelry during this two day workshop.  Areas to be covered will include silver soldering stainless steel cable for a bracelet, making a stainless steel coiled compression spring for a catch, tricks on use of tubing and many other techniques for the metal smith and jeweler.

For more information and to register for this workshop, call:  
215-579-5997 or 717-431-8706

Details about the workshop, including tools/materials list, can be found at:
http://www.pacrafts.org/5878_46717103427/cwp/view.asp?A=3&Q=276013&C=51311  

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