Alchimia Summer Workshop 2010
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Contemporary Jewellery School
Florence-Firenze
Summer Workshop 2010
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The main focus of this Alchimia summer workshop 2010 will be looking at strategies of how to achieve an honest personal expression, and free oneself from the influential power of the visual sterotype appearance of contemporary jewellery.
Teachters of the Alchimia workshop are David Bielander and Helen Britton
Theme: Authenticity in the age of style surfing
from July 19th to 30th, 2010
Important questions will be:
Why jewellery? What are the sources of your pieces? What happens when these pieces are worn? What happens to you when you wear Jewellery? Strategies involved will include: How to force oneself not to go the easy way. Avoiding peer group pressure. Understanding what jewellery does. Searching for the right materials and applying them to your work. Searching for the right visual information and applying this to your work.
The technical framework on which to work with these ideas will include:
Getting to know the possibilities of the hydraulic press. How to make blanking dies. To experiment with these processes and get them to work together.
Where? Alchimia, Florence, Italy
Information
Timetable: July 19 to 30, Monday thru Friday, h10-13 h14-17, total of 60 hours in 2 weeks
Course fee: Euro 1,450 + 20%tax
Application: Please send enrollment form, curriculum vitae, copy of passport and 2 passport size photos to Alchimia via email, fax or post. Technical preparation in jewellery making is required. Participants will be selected according to their curriculum and will be notified soon after their application has been received.
Application deadline: Applications will be processed in the order that they arrive. Final deadline is May 31st, 2010.
Number of participants: maximum 12
For further information on accommodation, please contact
the Alchimia website
Contemporary Jewellery School