Creative Metal Forming
Betty Helen Longhi
Anticlastic Bracelet from S Curved Pattern
If you like to make your own jewelry, metal forming is a wonderful way to create these three-dimensional pieces. Using one hard tool, usually a hammer, and one resilient tool, such as a wood or plastic stake, one can rapidly form sheet metal into desired shapes.
The book, Creative Metal Forming, by Betty Helen Longhi and Cynthia Eid will be used as a guide. Betty Helen will cover the basic techniques of Synclasting, Anticlasting and Transitions, in which one part of the form is hammered one direction and the other moves to a different way to create more complex forms. Instead of making samples, the students will learn these techniques by making bracelets, pendants and earrings. It will be fun to see how these objects can arrive out of just using a hammer!
The book, Creative Metal Forming, by Betty Helen Longhi and Cynthia Eid will be used as a guide. Betty Helen will cover the basic techniques of Synclasting, Anticlasting and Transitions, in which one part of the form is hammered one direction and the other moves to a different way to create more complex forms. Instead of making samples, the students will learn these techniques by making bracelets, pendants and earrings. It will be fun to see how these objects can arrive out of just using a hammer!
Instructor Bio
Betty Helen Longhi is a nationally recognized metalsmith who has worked extensively with forming metal for jewelry and sculpture. Her work is recognized for it's sculptural quality, flowing lines and subtle use of anodized niobium as a source of color. She attended University of Wisconsin and Cranbrook Academy of Art and has studied with Heikki Seppa.
Ms. Longhi has given numerous workshops both in the United States and Canada including Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Parsons School of Design, Arrowmont, Peters Valley Craft Center and Penland School. She has been a guest artist at the University of Wisconsin and Maryland Institute of Art and School for American Craft at Rochester Institute of Technology.
Additionally, she has written a number of articles and reviews for Metalsmith magazine and has lectured on shell forming for the Society of North American Goldsmiths. Betty Helen and co-author Cynthia Eid, have written the book, “Creative Metal Forming” which has been recognized as “a must for anyone interested in learning the craft of metal forming”.
Ms. Longhi has given numerous workshops both in the United States and Canada including Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Parsons School of Design, Arrowmont, Peters Valley Craft Center and Penland School. She has been a guest artist at the University of Wisconsin and Maryland Institute of Art and School for American Craft at Rochester Institute of Technology.
Additionally, she has written a number of articles and reviews for Metalsmith magazine and has lectured on shell forming for the Society of North American Goldsmiths. Betty Helen and co-author Cynthia Eid, have written the book, “Creative Metal Forming” which has been recognized as “a must for anyone interested in learning the craft of metal forming”.
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