Workshops / Masterclasses / Symposiums
Internationally recognized silversmith Kevin O'Dwyer is available to present a series of metalsmithing workshops at your educational facility, craft guild or studio. The workshops are designed specifically to cater to the needs and interest of the student groups combining technique and project based themes. Workshops can focus on beginners, intermediate and advanced levels or a combination of the above. Areas of interest that can be explored include:
- Hollowware - raising, forging and forming
- Box and hollowware fabrication
- Teapots and Vessels
- Bracelets - hinging and clasps
- Anticlastic raising
- Die forming for jewellery and hollowware
- The Art of Soldering
- Surface finishing techniques
- Hidden Hinges
- Hollowware lap joints and raising
- Photographing your jewellery and silverware
- Ring Fabrication
- Fold Forming
- Repousse
Working with students from the initial concept to the finished piece, master silversmith Kevin O'Dwyer will combine skill and technique based demostrations with one to one tuturing and problem solving throughout the workshop.
Recent workshops presented by O'Dwyer include Mesa Arts Center, University of Georgia- Athens, Lillstreet Arts Center, Quench Jewelry Arts, MAGG Atlanta, and University of Wisconsin- Stout.
We would be glad to talk to you about opportunities to deliver workshops, exhibitions and lectures at your facility. Please contact Kevin at kodwyerdesign@eircom.net
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