Jewelry Artist Report

Write a 300 word write up on a jewelry artist of your choosing.  You also need to include at least 5 images of the artist’s work.  The jewelry artist can be whomever you like, but all of the jewelry needs to be handmade by this artist.  Your write up can include the following information:

Information about the artist (you may not be able to find all of this information about every artist, but these are some ideas to include) :

• Where does this artist work? (geographical location as well as where their studio is, do they work from their home, at an artist's collective, etc.)
• What is the inspiration for this artist's work?
• What materials does this artist use?
• What techniques do they use?  Do you recognize any techniques or processes in their work?
• How did they get into their line of work?  Where did they go to school/get their training?
• Where has this artist shown/sold their work?  How do they advertise/market their work?

Reaction to the artists work:

• Do you like the artists work, why or why not?
• What do you like about the artist's work?  
• Why did you choose to write about this specific artist?
• Does their work inspire any ideas for you?

Write ups should be in MLA format with all of your sources cited.  Don't forget to proof read and spell check your document!!

Submissions will be due through this assignment on Google Classroom

Riveting Project

For this project, you will be creating a piece using cold connections, in this case, rivets.  Riveting is a process used in many different industries from furniture design, to metal fabrication, architecture, and even in clothing.  Riveting is a way to attach two pieces of metal using a physical object, rather than heat or adhesive.  We will be using metal tubing for our rivets.


The requirements for this project are:
- 3 or more layers
- At least one rivet
- Can be any function (necklace, bracelet, earrings [if you are doing earrings the minimum is two layers per earring], pin, anklet, hair clip, belt buckle, key chain, money clip, etc)
- Must utilize etching, rolling mill texture, or stamping texture


Some ideas to make your project more interesting:
- Rivets can be used to create moving parts, kinetic art is interesting and can be interactive for the wearer
- Mixed metals work well with cold connections (using two or more different types of metal in your project)
- You need at least 1 rivet incorporated into your design, but you can also solder any elements on that make more sense to solder


Ideas for inspiration:
- Steampunk design elements
- Architecture
- Futuristic objects (robots, etc)
- Animals with moving parts


Craftsmanship Goals:
- Free of saw, file, and sanding marks
- Cleanly etched or textured
- No excess solder if you have any pieces soldered in this project
- Rivets are well executed:

• Too long of rivets and hammering too hard will cause rivets to split
• Too short of rivets will lead to messy looking rivets and are not as secure
• You also want to make sure your rivets aren't too close to any of your edges, or it looks messy with the rivet going off the edge
• Drill holes for riveting must be pretty large, so plan accordingly