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Spend a full three days with Nina Bagley in a single unified workshop at asilomar. This well-rounded time of creativity, sharing and inspiration will focus on the fabrication of an individually designed art, storybook and jewelry ensemble unique to your own collection of findings and memories.
Day One: Construction of a necklace using your own small-scale found objects that have significance to you – a small worn stick of driftwood, a smooth pebble, beads, vintage jewelry mementos, a tiny note of significant emotional value….be gathering your treasures in a small box in the coming months (and certainly at the beach right there!) for your workshop creation that will also include some findings both new and old from Nina’s personal studio collection. We will utilize wire-wrapping, drilling, hammering, and general cold connecting techniques to form a story-invoking necklace, textural and evocative in form and visual appeal, that features as its focal point a brass-framed locket containing a small accordion fold collage.
Day Two: Construction of an metal-covered, accordion-fold book that will showcase within its paper and metal pages the necklace we created on our first day. The book’s vintage-styled pages, separate mat board rectangles joined by fabric/ribbon or wire laced through eyelets, will each hold a story that describes words and paper imagery three or four of your favorite treasures strung upon the “storian” necklace (or not! This is entirely up to you); one page will hold a small drawstring bag, attached with eyelets, that will contain the necklace. If time permits later in the day, we will further embellish our books’ pages with handwriting, stamping, and paper ephemera.
Day Three: Continuation of book embellishment, and the creation of a story inspired by your gathered relics. The morning’s focus will be a description of methods used to trigger story ideas for an art piece, allowing the items you ultimately selected for your storian necklace to tell their own tale, fiction or fact. The story will be used as embellishment, inscribed by hand or stamped, on the paper pages of your accordion book. The final hour or so of this technique-intensive workshop will be spent gathered as a family of fellow artists, sharing openly with one another our books and our treasures, which truly are the renderings of our own cherished stories of life. This workshop will cost the same price as a total of three individual one-day workshops at asilomar. I am excited about the opportunity to spend an extended amount of time with my students, getting to know you and watching you have fun creating your jewelry and book art for three whole days!
Supply List:
- package 1/8” short and 1/8” long eyelets, available from volcanoarts.biz
- package of copper mesh, volcanoarts.biz
- package of mica, volcanoarts.biz
- Two pair of needle-nosed pliers (preferably one bent-nosed, one round-nosed)
- Pair of wire snips
- Japanese screw punch (or an awl – but believe me, you’d prefer the punch!) with tip to accommodate the 1/8” eyelets
- Small, light-weight hammer
- Cutting pad (Helix) and utility knife
- Metal ruler
- Scissors
- Glue (PVA preferable), paintbrush, paper cup for water
- Medium-grit sandpaper
- Wire, both lighter gauge (26-28, found in floral section at WalMart in paddle form) and heavier gauge (20 or 22), either copper or base metal – can be found at hardware stores in picture-hanging supplies
- Cream-colored smooth-surfaced mat board, which you may wish to age beforehand by staining with tea or coffee; please have this cut prior to the workshop into eight to ten pieces, 4” x 5” in size
- 3 or more yards of ribbon no wider than ½”
- fabric scraps for collage
- One or two binding clips
- Pencil, fountain tip pen, whatever your favorite writing utensil happens to be
- Rubber alphabet stamps, if preferred to pen or pencil, with rubber stamp pad
- Your gathered treasures to be assembled into necklace form (be creative here – think beyond the box…sticks, pebbles, river glass, tiny photocopies of favorite old photos,
bits of old jewelry pieces from family mementos, etc – as well as the more familiarly used
beads and charms
- ephemera for collaged pages in book
- copper tape, ½” or thereabouts in width, found in stained glass supply shops; 2-3 feet
is fine (optional)
A $12 materials fee to be paid to the instructor at the beginning of class.
Includes the following:
Copper book cover, 4” x 5”
Brass frame locket
Vintage copper chain
Assorted findings from Nina’s studio
Tarnish supplies(liver of sulphur) for copper mesh
CLOSED - CLASS FULL
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