Casting Workshop Gift Card

Who:

Anyone interested in learning about the lost wax casting process, molding and directly casting jewelry and objects. No prior metalsmithing experience is necessary. Enrollment is capped at 4 participants.

When:

The gift card is good for any upcoming workshop at my home studio in New Albany, IN. New workshops will be posted monthly and last 3 days (typically Friday evening, all day Saturday and Sunday)

Where:

New Albany, Indiana. Address provided upon enrollment

What:

3 day workshop demonstrating wax carving, soft wax sculpting, mold making, cutting, wax injecting, organic (botanical?) casting, vacuum assisted lost wax casting process, cleanup of castings, and polishing/finishing and various metalsmithing tips and tricks.

Participants will be invited to create UP TO 5 small pieces for casting utilizing carving, sculpting and/or organic casting techniques. The pieces will be sterling silver.

Participants are invited to cast botanical objects and can create additional pieces utilizing carving and sculpting as time allows and considering space in the kiln.

All equipment will be provided

Wax, wax pen, carving tools, casting equipment, burnout kiln, investment, wax injector, heat gun, magnetic finisher, flex shaft, tumbler, abrasives, files, polishing compound, investment, bench pins, hand tools

Students are welcome to bring their own hand tools if they already have them. I estimate the metal cost for each student to be around $40-50 depending on the volume of castings.

How:

The workshop will demonstrate and explain principles of casting, techniques such as mold making and cutting, injecting waxes to create multiples, explanation of all equipment, and work sessions for participants to create their own items using the process. Students will leave the workshop with at least one finished jewelry item or object, and any experimental castings that they create. They will leave the workshop with knowledge, experiences, handouts, fun sketches, notes, and a whole google drive folder of reference material to be accessed indefinitely. The course will be taught by me (Theresa Applegate!) I have 12 years experience teaching high school visual art including jewelry courses, and 21 years of metalsmithing experience. You’re in good hands.

Why?

Because melting things is awesome. Learning new things is awesome. Meeting new people is awesome. I hope you can join!