North Carolina Society of Goldsmiths
Classified Ad: Shell Forming Workshop
Get Away Workshops: Shell Forming Metal with Betty Helen Longhi
Betty Helen Longhi has spent the last twenty five years exploring the possibilities of shell forming in her jewelry and sculpture. She shows her work nationally and has taught all over the United States including Penland and Haystack. She is now offering a special opportunity for small groups of students to work in her personal studio and stay at her lakeside home in North Carolina. These unique workshops will combine close personal attention, optimal equipment and the opportunity of pursuing a very individual course of study in a beautiful vacation setting.
Shell forming is a wonderful way to create three dimensional structures for jewelry and sculpture from flat sheet metal. Using one hard tool, usually a hammer, and one resilient tool, a wood or plastic form, one can rapidly form sheet metal into desired shapes. Students will explore the fundamentals of sheet metal behavior and gain an understanding of the relationship between technique, tools and resulting forms. Specific techniques will include synclastic sinking, anticlastic raising and methods to make transitions from one form to another resulting in more complex structures. Emphasis is on the great potential for forming which can be accomplished using a minimum of tools.
To learn more about Betty Helen and her workshops check out her website www.fluidformsinmetal.com
For additional information, brochures and costs: email: fluidforms@lexcominc.net or call: 336-798-5725
2005 workshop dates: June 5 to 11, July 31 to August 6 (filled), September 18 to 24.
Betty Helen and students in her studio
Breaks and fun and include sailing on the lake
Delicious meals are served lakeside