Etched Earrings
Special Event | This program is completed
Draw on metal and create unique earrings in this one-time workshop well suited for beginners and advanced students alike. Students will take a design of their own and using a non-toxic saltwater etching technique, etch the design into the surface of sheet metal. After etching, students will solder earring posts to the backs of their designs. Using a patina, students will then darken the metal and sand back the highpoints to make their design pop. Students will create a finished set of earrings they can take home at the end of the workshop. This workshop could be a good fit for those interested in 2D artmaking and want an introduction into a handful of basic metalsmithing processes.
• Please bring a notepad and something to write with.
• It is recommended that you come with drawings, shapes, or simple photo tracings you would want to use as imagery for your earrings, fitting within the dimensions of 1”x2” or smaller.
• All supplies are included with enrollment
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Lia Musante
Lia Musante is a maker working in Philadelphia. Since their undergraduate studies in community-based oral history, they seek to link embodied storytelling with metalsmithing, using jewelry as a worn archive, and teaching in accessible art education.
Lia plays with the lifetimes objects carry to re-forge narratives of possibility. Forgotten detritus reunites with the body as sentimental jewels as part of the cycle in which man-made objects are made, found, and remade. Jewelry externalizes inner feelings, as hardware for tenderness. But this two-ness is slippery: at times the object outlasts fleeting feelings, or the feelings linger far after the object expires. By teasing apart this connection with repaired electronics, faux stones, steel, and sound, these re-linkings and re-contextualizations remember the everpresent kinship we share with our belongings and each other in the end times.