3-D Design in Metal - Katy Cassell, Instructor
About Instructor Katy Cassell
Course Syllabus
Metals/Enameling Blog

Description

3-D Design in Metal is organized to introduce students to the fundamentals of designing and fabricating small-scale objects with sheet metal and wire. Course content involves students in four major activities:

DESIGNING THE OBJECT, which includes a review of the elements and principles of design; renderings to express ideas visually with shape; models to express ideas visually with form; and study of historical and contemporary metalwork.

LEARNING SAFE AND EFFICIENT USE OF STUDIO FACILITIES, including general safety requirements; demonstration of major equipment such as the acetylene torch, the bench shear, the rolling mill, the sandblaster, the hydraulic press, the polishing machine and the enameling kiln.

DEMONSTRATION OF PROCESSES AND TECHNIQUES, including cutting and piercing with the jeweler's saw; finishing by filing, sanding, polishing, chasing and repoussé; roller embossing; roller printing; annealing; forming by stretching, folding, and soldering; riveting; chemical coloring to create patina; and enameling.

CREATION OF 3-D METAL OBJECTS in a manner that reflects competence in design and technical approach, originality of design, craftsmanship, and suitability of materials and processes to the ideas and/or functions implied by the object.

Check out the new on-line metals gallery, featuring work from our 3-D metals students.

NEWS

The Metals Department is pleased to announce the visit of Robert Ebendorf, an esteemed metalsmith, jeweler, and leader in the American studio jewelry movement. He is famous for finding objects that are under appreciated or overlooked by society and giving them a new life, such as fossils, animal claws, or even pull tops from lids. He is one of the founding members of the Society of North American Goldsmiths (SNAG), is an inductee of the National Metalsmiths Hall of Fame, and has had his own retrospective at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. He has been awarded a Fulbrigth Scholar Grant and a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant, and is currently the Belk Distinguished Professor of Art at East Carolina University in North Carolina. Mr. Ebendorf will work with Fine Arts Center visual arts students on Friday, January 6, 2012, and will give a presentation about his life and work at 7:00 p.m., which will be free and open to the public.

Metals Teacher Katy Cassell is accepting entries for the 2012 National Juried High School Metals Exhibition, to be juried by esteemed metalsmith Robert Ebendorf. Postmark deadline December 12, 2011. Click here for the prospectus and entry form.