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Boston Area Jewelry Making classes! Yippee!
why all you had to do was ask!! Metalwerx is just about 1 mile from my
house...i go there often. As a matter of fact it just had a seminar day sponsored by Ganoksin that was really quite nice. Quite a number of people rent their bench space there. I've been to both the BCAE and the CCAE...nice classes. Actually, you can get to Metalwerx via Public Transport...a train to a bus, or if someone's really nice, and can get to around here, i could always be the private transport. Metalwerx is women owned, and the work the two owners do is outstanding...as is most of the work the others do. Lots of basic classes like soldering, chain making, etc. "Kathy N-V" wrote in message . giganews.com... I did some research and just found _three_ places here in the Boston area that offer beginner's metalworking classes. Boston Center for Adult Education (www.bcae.org): Offers all sorts of course for pretty reasonable sums of money ($70 - $110) Courses run during evenings, weekends or during the day. Seems to run the gamut from silversmithing (beginner, intermediate and advanced) to knotted beaded necklaces and PMC. There's even a class on vintage costume jewelry! (Oh Becki B -- vintage jewelry -- calling you!) Cambridge Center for Adult Education (www.ccae.org): Even more courses than in Boston, and the prices are similar. Lots of glassblowing and beadmaking stuff here, too. Between these two places, you could get a darned good education in making jewelry. --- Both places above are accessible by public transportation --- There's another option, not on public transportation, and not a non-profit, but it looks pretty darned good as well Metalwerx (www.metalwerx.com) Lots more expensive than the two places above, but classes are limited to twelve people, and they offer some things you aren't going to find elsewhere. I found a class for plique-a-jour enameling (a form of enameling with no metal in the back of the frame, so it looks like stained glass), PMC certification, Hydraulic Die Forming - all on consecutive weekend days, so you can get the whole deal at once. Also includes more traditional 6-8 week evening class structure on loads of jewelry making topics. -------------------------------- All have classes registering for the fall term, beginning next month. As much as I'd like to sign up, I think I'm being _way_ too optimistic that my pain/mobility issues will be resolved within a matter of weeks, at least enough so I could take the classes. But there's a winter term, and a spring one after it! (heh, heh, heh) Happily, this also seems to be a way to find a way to source good bead places in the area, although I sure have developed my online sources to a point where I'm not bead-deprived at all. ;-) I really want to learn the silversmithing stuff, the enameling stuff and glass slumping. Oh yes, PMC when I have a spare five minutes. That the classes are on the subway line just is a bonus for the two non-profits. Waltham is about a 45 minute ride for me, when I can drive, and with the schedules they post for the weekend seminar classes, I'd rent a hotel room for the night in the middle, so I wouldn't wear myself out with more than just the class. [Doing a virtual happy dance!] I'm so, so happy that there is an outlet for me to learn more about my art just waiting for me, as soon as I get well enough to take advantage of it. Talk about motivation. Obligatory Poor Bob Moment: Feel sad for my poor, long suffering husband. He will have to listen to me talk about jewelry, rant about invisible mistakes I made in technique, and watch me spend large sums of money on toys that do not interest him. These courses are timed to coincide with Manda's chemistry and calculus courses during the school year at MIT, so he'll be home doing laundry while the kid and I are going to go buck-wild, learning new skills. Because neither Manda nor I is capable of learning something new and shutting up about it, he'll get to hear us discuss every detail endlessly. Poor, poor Bob. He won't even be able to complain to his dad, because Nick was a metalworker for 50+ years. Grandpa will be delighted that _someone_ in the house will know the skills, even if just playing with jewelry, instead of building big ships and such. hehehehe. Kathy N-V |
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I love the concept of BCAE and CCAE - what a great resource. I took my first
lampworking class through BCAE with Marj Bates in Scituate. They also have a cool cheese-tasting course - yum!. DH and I wish there were something BCAE-like here in Southern NH, but there isn't. -Ellen |
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I bought my first ever lampwork from Marj...she had open studio last
weekend, but a friend from NJ was here, and he and I had planned to go, but so many other things diverted us. I still see her at shows every now and again...she is a hoot. Lisa "JavaGirlBT" wrote in message ... I love the concept of BCAE and CCAE - what a great resource. I took my first lampworking class through BCAE with Marj Bates in Scituate. They also have a cool cheese-tasting course - yum!. DH and I wish there were something BCAE-like here in Southern NH, but there isn't. -Ellen |
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