Creating Colorful Jewelry

In this 8-week course, we’ll explore the art of creating colorful jewelry pieces. Each week, you’ll be introduced to new techniques for adding stunning hues to metal and seamlessly integrating them into your designs.
Through a series of projects, you'll enhance your skills in metalworking and learn how to transform your creative ideas into beautiful, finished pieces. Each week includes demonstrations and practice in essential techniques like sawing, soldering, forming, polishing, and adding eye-catching color.
By the end of the course, you’ll have a solid grasp of metalsmithing and how to bring vibrant color to your jewelry designs. You’ll go home with a better understanding of metalsmithing and how to incorporate color into jewelry designs.

Special Notes

• Students are encouraged to bring face masks to protect ; against breathing in airborne particulates; wear clothing you don't mind getting dusty or dirty; bring in small metals projects that they'd like to add color to or ideas for new works in small metals; sketch journal for drawing out designs.
  
  This class does not meet on 2/20.
  
  Classes are confirmed one week prior to the start date. In order to help us confirm classes, please register as early as possible.
  
  On-site courses do not come with studio access outside of class time. Paid open studio access is available through our Studio Access Program. Please visit visarts.org for more information.
  
  

About the Instructor

Rachel Rader

Rachel Rader (she/her) is an artist and educator based in Richmond, Virginia. Rachel creates work that derives from her love of material exploration and her investigation of the enigmatic. In her current project Ancient Truth Investigators, she creates jewelry and sculptural objects that are central to the ongoing narrative delivered by the alter-egoes she personifies during her performances. Rachel is devoted to sharing her passion for the Craft materials that she utilizes in her work by teaching across the country. She has taught at institutions including Arrowmont School of Crafts, Pratt Fine Arts Center, Penland School of Crafts, UrbanGlass, and the Visual Arts Center.

Rachel holds a BFA in Crafts + Material Studies from Virginia Commonwealth University. She was a 2017 resident artist at the Museum of Arts and Design in NYC as a part of the Artists’ Studios Program, and the recipient of a 2016 CGCA Flexible Fellowship at Wheaton Arts in Millville, NJ. She has shown her artwork in various galleries and museums including Alma’s RVA Gallery, The Brooklyn Metal Works Gallery, The Bullseye Gallery New York, Heller Gallery in NY, NY, Quirk Gallery in Richmond, VA, The Racine Art Museum in Racine, WI, The Society of Contemporary Craft in Pittsburgh, PA, The Museum of Contemporary Art in Norfolk, VA and The Museum of Contemporary Craft in Portland, OR.

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