Jewelry: Making and Teaching

By Dan Wisner

Overview• Thesis • Relevance• History • Safety• First Lesson• Second Lesson• Third Lesson • Fourth Lesson• Teaching• Application• Conclusion• Class Activity• Sources

http://www.flickr.com/photos/countrushmore/1448060326/in/photostream/

Thesis

• The process of teaching jewelry hones one’s skills as a silver-smith and transfers specific skills and knowledge, paying attention to the vast history of the craft.

Personal Relevance

• Jewelry is an important topic to me because it is something I wish to pursue as a career, I am going to college for jewelry and plan on getting my masters in metals. Also making jewelry is one of the only things that keeps me sane, it’s an emotional release.

Relevance to You

• My presentation is relevant to you because jewelry is something you all see everyday, and now you know how much history might be on someone’s finger and how much work goes into each piece one might wear.

Introduction

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History of Jewelry

• Jewelry goes as far back as 3000 B.C. and that is just the recorded history, it could go even farther back.

Egyptian Jewelry

http://www.lunarmall.com/images/p/lv/000/lv00002a.1.egyptian.jpg

Cutting and Polishinghttp://ep.yimg.com/ca/I/ash1_2096_22912321

http://ep.yimg.com/ca/I/ash1_2096_22912321

Jewelry in Greece

http://www.farlang.com/profiles/thewalters/product.2008-11-12.0033105634/image/variant/medium

The Greeks were the first to make a Cameo.

http://www.internetstones.com/image-files/sardonyx-cameo-1791.jpg

Grecian jewelry was very simple, the designs and the processes were simple but the time taken to make each piece was what set their jewelry apart.

http://www.kalopedis.com/products.php?ID=78http://www.adinimages.com/web/greek_jewelry_02.jpg

The 13th through 17th Centuries

• A lot of paste jewelry was made in Europe during the 13th through 17th centuries, more specifically France and England were known for making imitation jewelry.

http://www.fashion-era.com/jewellery.htm#Gold%20In%20Egypt%203000%20BC

This is another example of paste jewelry.

The market for paste jewelry is not dead. In fact a lot of cheaper jewelry, usually bought at department stores or like stores are made in mostly the same fashion, just by a machine.

Victorian Jewelry

Queen Victoria came to the throne in 1837. She put a lot of focus on the arts making it so more jewelry was made.

http://jewelry-stores.jewelry-idea.info/articles/victorian-jewelry/2.jpg

http://www.itiffanyjewelry.com/images/TFBL193%20Tiffany%20Bracelet.jpg

Arts and Crafts Jewelry

“Arts and Crafts” Jewelry was started in the 1870 to counter-act all of the low quality machine made jewelry coming out of the Victorian age.

The Process of Making Jewelry

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sarawestermark/4317549237/sizes/l/

To make this ring could take anywhere from 30 minutes to 3 hours to make.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/daniboi1977/3131743299/

Safety

http://cs.artjewelrymag.com/artcs/blogs/artjewelry/Katie/safety-glasses.jpg

http://www.aaproducts.com/QkSl2lb.jpg

http://www.topnews.in/files/Goldsmith.JPG

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ayayan/506766287/

Equipment

http://www.jewelry-tools.us/jewelry-tools-425.jpg

First lesson

• The first thing taught is how to saw

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-Gue1FFynas/SxLhjrfViAI/AAAAAAAACQ0/Y3v4UzV139Y/s1600/jewelry_saw.jpg

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QRVEchpV8nU/S7R4-C6WS7I/AAAAAAAAAZA/epySBvSFEfY/s1600/filing.jpg

From there sanding is shownhttp://img.hgtv.com/HGTV/2007/04/09/hclvr328_3b_lg.jpg

http://www.flickr.com/photos/1962_cb77_restore/3375589416/sizes/o/

The second lesson

http://steampoweredpinky.com/wp-content/gallery/straw-casting/pic5.jpg

Then the flux is applied

http://www.flickr.com/photos/23471309@N02/4307961864

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q1PLCDeRnC4/SsPADIIu8NI/AAAAAAAAA-M/iSFbuUflkV4/s400/229_soldering.jpg

Third lesson

• In the third lesson we go over the process of sanding and filing the piece down.

Lesson Plans

http://tep.uoregon.edu/resources/faqs/preparingtoteach/lessonplan.html

Preparing to teach

Teaching

• Goshen teaching website laid out a very good plan for day to day teaching. – “Review something that we studied recently and

introduce today's work practice what is new before students are asked to be creative with it present main assignment - motivate more than one way student time on task - often motivational open questions are used to help enrich, personalize, and focus ideas during this time.”

http://fineartamerica.com/images-medium/gold-wire-bracelet-gisela-naepflin.jpg

https://www.romazone.com/supplies/images/26%20gauge%20Sterling%20Silver%20Sheet%201%20x%206%20inches.jpg

“Sometimes teachers feel that it is more creative to allow students to have complete freedom to decide on any subject matter. This presents several problems. If the teachers says, "Do whatever you want for subject matter," most students simply do whatever was easy and successful in the past. This lassie faire approach also implies that content is immaterial and unimportant.” http://www.goshen.edu/art/ed/artlsn.html#INTRODUCE

Application

• For my application I knew I wanted to teach jewelry to people, I wasn’t sure what to teach them or how many I wanted to teach.

• Eventually I figured out that I wanted to teach two people from this class how to make a ring. I would use my home studio for the production of the rings and I was going to document their progression and their learning.

• The idea in my head wasn’t working out, the participants did not have enough time to start learning.

• Ms. Oren than asked me if I would like to help her with Diversity Day making Africa jewelry.

• Of course I said yes, but after talking about some ideas on what to make, I tossed in the idea of using it as my application for my SGP.

• Ms. Oren liked that idea a lot and handed over total control of the day to me.

• I then started thinking of what to have the students make, I went by these guidelines:

• Could do in under an hour.• Did not need any more than pliers to make.• Would be easy enough so that the students would

enjoy it but hard enough to challenge them.

• I came up with three designs for the to make, one being a ring, the next being earrings and the last being a pendant.

• As I was testing the difficulties of producing them I found that the wire I was using was to brittle and broke after the third and fourth bends.

• There was no other choice than to start over.• I came up with two different design, earrings

and a ring.

Class Activity

• For my class activity I would like everyone to design there own piece of jewelry, any style from any era of production. You can use all of the pictures from my presentation as a guide on how to design your piece. – I would like to see the piece from different angles;

such as the sides, the top, bottom.

Conclusion

• In conclusion I think by researching so many of the technical sides of jewelry making and also the “art” of teaching art I realized how much it would mean to me by being a professor at a college. I learned how it would make me feel as though I did something important with my life by passing on my knowledge of jewelry to others. I also feel as though I learned a lot about the basics of jewelry making and this will help me to make my own art better.