BOUNTIFUL BRACELETS
Susan Saul
Who doesn't love an armful of jingly bangles or a show-stopping cuff? Explore a variety of bracelet styles including forged wire bangles, anticlastic cuf, curved segmented bracelet, and wide chain with box clasp.
Focus will be ease of fabrication, custom fit, and mechanisms that are impressive and effective but not difficult to make. Discussions will also include ways to integrate gemstones with curved surfaces.Expect to improve your soldering skills, learn about bracelet sizing, and benefit from the many bench tips that will be incorporated into the demos and discussions.
Intermediate soldering and sawing skills are required. Students may be asked to bring some special tools that will become favorites, detailed in the supply list.
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Focus will be ease of fabrication, custom fit, and mechanisms that are impressive and effective but not difficult to make. Discussions will also include ways to integrate gemstones with curved surfaces.Expect to improve your soldering skills, learn about bracelet sizing, and benefit from the many bench tips that will be incorporated into the demos and discussions.
Intermediate soldering and sawing skills are required. Students may be asked to bring some special tools that will become favorites, detailed in the supply list.
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Susan Saul's Artist Statement and Bio
After many years as a visual artist working in printmaking, textiles, costume jewelry and large-scale paper and mixed media, I “came home” to metalsmithing about 25 years ago. What I loved, aside from the hands-on nature of the work and the opportunity to be a tool-collecting nerd, was the fact that human relationships are essential to my product. My individually crafted jewelry pieces contain the energy and intentions of the maker, yet are only really alive and complete when worn on the body. The materials and design features interact with the wearer producing personal, subjective sensations.
If there is any one concept that inspires and infuses my work it is the expression of the feminine face of the divine in the physical world. In my view it can only help the overall quality of life on earth to support and empower the feminine energies of compassion, cooperation and balance.”
Susan has a BA in Fine Art from University of California, Santa Barbara. She currently lives in Atlanta with her husband Steven and two cats. She continues to teach at the Spruill Center for the Arts and work in her home studio, aka “the woman cave.”
After many years as a visual artist working in printmaking, textiles, costume jewelry and large-scale paper and mixed media, I “came home” to metalsmithing about 25 years ago. What I loved, aside from the hands-on nature of the work and the opportunity to be a tool-collecting nerd, was the fact that human relationships are essential to my product. My individually crafted jewelry pieces contain the energy and intentions of the maker, yet are only really alive and complete when worn on the body. The materials and design features interact with the wearer producing personal, subjective sensations.
If there is any one concept that inspires and infuses my work it is the expression of the feminine face of the divine in the physical world. In my view it can only help the overall quality of life on earth to support and empower the feminine energies of compassion, cooperation and balance.”
Susan has a BA in Fine Art from University of California, Santa Barbara. She currently lives in Atlanta with her husband Steven and two cats. She continues to teach at the Spruill Center for the Arts and work in her home studio, aka “the woman cave.”
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