Imaginative Captures with Andy Cooperman. April 27 - May 1, 2015

$1199 + $35 kit

Get ready to expand your jewelry vocabulary and learn new ways to hold things together. Liberate your problem solver as you develop a whole new set of ways to capture and secure the components of jewelry. Your inspiring instructor will offer an approach for incorporating stones, enamel and found objects into your work. Learn the basic principles behind stone setting in order to create new, elegant, more fully integrated setting solutions. Techniques include cold connecting, caging, back setting, flex shaft tricks and advanced soldering techniques along with a wide variety of shortcuts and studio tips. Prerequisite: Fabrication 2 or experience.

Andy Cooperman is a metalsmith, teacher and writer who lives in Seattle, Washington. His work, known for an intuitive melding of high craft and spontaneous surface and form development, can be found on the pages of numerous publications as well as galleries and museums, including the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Visit andycooperman.com.