Independent Study: Pesky Projects
Adult Class | Available
This new offering is an opportunity for experienced jewelry students to wrap up unfinished projects. Have a project that’s been hanging over you for too long? Have a vision to make new iterations of a past project but haven’t been able to set aside the time? Struggling to problem-solve your way through a complex idea alone? Like jewelry Open Studio, this class will be a chance to finish lingering pieces and concepts.
The instructor will provide technical demonstrations relevant to student projects over the course of the class. Demonstrations could include: tricky solder joints, working in batches for production, surface finishing and polishing, or advanced cold connections. Students will also be able to engage in group discussions about their goals and troubleshooting strategies. Come with three to four projects/ideas and together we can cross the finish line!
Accessibility Note: This studio is only accessible by stairs. For access needs or accommodations, contact adulteducation@fleisher.org.
- Please bring three to four unfinished projects/ideas and materials needed to complete them.
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.