Events
2008 COMA Conference
“Cutting Edge”
The Steamplant, Salida, Colorado
Conference Presenters: 
Michael Boyd
Tom Herman
David Huang
Jim Kelso
Carol Webb
Other Activities:
All-Members’ Meeting
“Don’t Pin That On Me”- Metalsmithing Rodeo
Silent Auction
Pin Swap
All-Members’ Exhibition and Reception at cultureclash
Members’ Banquet
Master’s Forum
Conference Schedule
Friday, July 11
1:00 pm Registration, Drop Off of Silent Auction Donations
2:00 pm Pin Swap/Tool Swap
3:00 pm Welcome to all participants
3:30-5:30 Presenter: Michael Boyd
5:30-6:00 All Members’ meeting
7:00 pm Reception at cultureclash, 101 North F Street
Saturday, July 12
8:30 am Registration, Coffee & Muffins
9:30 am Presenter: Tom Herman
11:00 “Don’t Pin that on Me!” metalsmithing rodeo
12:30 Lunch
1:30 pm Presenter: Carol Webb
3:00 pm Break
3:15 pm Presenter: Jim Kelso
4:30 pm Silent Auction Bidding/ Wine Bar
6:00 pm Banquet
Sunday, July 13
9:00 am Coffee & Muffins at the Steamplant
9:00-11:00 Jim Kelso Workshop
10:00-11:00 Master’s Forum
11:00 Break
11:35 Presenter: David Huang
Tool Room: Lew Wackler, D & J Rare Gems and The Naja
Tool Swap: Bring in your dusty, once used tools or materials and offer them for sale or trade to your
colleagues.
Pin Swap: Make 10-20 quick and easy brooches for trade with other members! This is a great opportunity
for you to use your Imagination! Some of the materials we’ve seen crafted into GREAT art pieces included:
feathers, paper, brass, silver, plastic, found objects, rough stones. Anything goes!
COMA Silent Auction: Every year we hold the Silent Auction as an alternative fund-raiser for COMA. But,
besides that, it’s a great way for members to find equipment and/or materials at less than retail prices. It’s
also a great tax-deduction for the donors. We need your participation, and you’d be surprised at what makes
a great silent auction donation! So, go through your studio, collect your treasures and drop them off at the
beginning of the conference. If you wish, label items with a MINIMUM Opening Bid (especially important for
service/timeshare donations). If you would like to make a donation but do not plan on attending the
conference, please notify us at comaforum@comcast.net and we will make arrangements to collect your
donation and give you a receipt for your taxes.
Click here for the 2008 Conference Registration Form
CoMA Classes/Workshops
Michael Boyd 
Incorporating Materials with Metal
“My technique is just basic lapidary and metal fabrication. The stone is as important as the metal. I am looking for an integration of the medias, a manipulation and blending of the two: Using stone as a medium, not as an accessory.” Michael will be teaching a 3-day workshop on techniques of integrating media (including stone) with metals.
Dates: July 8-10, 2008 (Immediately preceding the CoMA Conference in Salida, CO)
Location: Steamplant Meeting Room, Salida, CO
Cost: $250 members, $300 non-members
To Register for this workshop, contact CoMA at comaforum@comcast.net or send postcard to the address below. Registration will be confirmed upon receipt of payment to: CoMA, P.O. Box 631898, Littleton, CO 80163. Student materials list will follow about 1 month prior to the workshop. Participation is limited to 15 students
Imagery on Metal…Techniques in Photo-etching
Carol Webb (Santa Cruz, CA)
Carol creates beautiful, contemporary jewelry and vessel designs rich in architectural detail. Her process involves the lamination of a thin layer of copper over a thicker layer of fine silver. Fine silver has a higher silver content than sterling, which makes it soft. She photo-etches through the copper to the silver to obtain patterns. The pieces are then constructed, and after finishing the copper is oxidized, imparting in the black color.
Dates: July 14-16, 2008 (Immediately following the CoMA Conference in Salida, CO)
Location: Arapahoe Community College, Jewelry and Metals Studio, Alamo Center, Alamo & Prince Streets, Littleton, CO
Cost: $250 members, $300 non- members
To Register for this workshop, contact CoMA at comaforum@comcast.net or send postcard to the address below.
Registration will be confirmed upon receipt of payment to: CoMA, P.O. Box 631898, Littleton, CO 80163.
Student materials list will follow about 1 month prior to the workshop.
Participation is limited to 15 students. www.carolwebbstudio.com
Cancellation Refund Policy for Workshops: Cancellations up to 30 days prior to the workshop will receive a full refund. Within 30 days, refund is contingent upon filling the vacancy left by the cancellation.
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Member events and announcements
The Colorado School of Jewelry and Metal Arts is pleased to announce its Winter/Spring Schedule of classes. All Classes will be held in my studio,
Jerry Scavezze-Goldsmith, in Salida, CO.
Beginners Introduction to Jewelry
We recommend this class for people new to silver/goldsmithing and/or those wanting a refresher course on the basics. This is also a great class for people just curious about "how its made" or wanting to increase their working knowledge of Jewelry.
Instructor Jessica Kidd
Dates Feb 16,17,18
Location Scavezze Studios in Salida CO.
Class is limited to 10 Students max.
Cost for 24 hr (3 days) workshop is $275.00
Want to make beautiful, wearable works of art? In a 3-day intensive seminar, the beginning techniques of silversmithing are taught to help students create jewelry or 3-dimensional sculpture. Learn to use jeweler's tools to saw, stamp, shape and join metals. Piercing, Soldering, forging techniques and bezel setting stones will be taught. Also covered will be finishing techniques and tools necessary. A variety of metals will be utilized in this class. The skills you learn in this workshop will enable you to continue creating jewelry on your own, at home. Each student will create four to five pieces to take home, including a ring, earrings, pendant, bracelet, and link necklace. Jessica Kidd has been teaching silversmithing at the Glenwood Springs Center for the Arts for four years, and practicing her art for seven. She took her first silversmithing class at the Center for the Arts and fell in love with the creation of wearable art. Largely self-educated, she has refined her skills by taking many workshops with master craftsmen, including legendary locals Jerry Scavezze and Harold O Connor. Facilitating her students ability to turn their newfound skills into a profitable venture is her primary focus.
Materials fee $50-$65 subject to silver prices
Tools to bring, or we can supply new ones to purchase, use and then =20 take home. Let us know when registering. Tool cost will be $125.00
4" Sawframe
Set of atleast 3 pliers, Round, Chain, Flat nose
Needle Files set of 6 to 12 basic shapes, cut #2
Blades 4/0 Laser Gold if possible from Rio Grande. (or your favorite) Bench Pin Anvil Combination Bezel roller/prong pusher Planishing hammer (Optional) We will have some to use. Not included =20 in tool set. 6" #4 cut file Sanding sticks 4/0
Basic Stone Setting For Jewelers
This class is for anyone wanting to know how to add the sparkle of gemstones to their work. Christine has been teaching stone setting and jewelry since 1977.
Instructor Christine Grininger
Dates March 1-4
Location Scavezze Studios in Salida, CO.
Class is limited to 10 students
Cost for 4 day (32 hour) workshop is $375.00
Christine will cover basic prong settings, tube settings, bezel settings, and flat or flush settings. The class will be directed in part by the students and their needs, and the types of settings they want to learn. Christine's teaching rationale reflects a combination of demonstrations, discussion and encouragement along with class projects that she has developed. Questions are welcome, "The is no such thing as a dumb question". She works side by side with the students to provide guidance and support.
Materials cost is $50.00-$75.00 dollars
email for toolist and approx. cost or bring your favorites.
Beginning Anticlastic Raising for Metalsmiths
Instructor Jerry Scavezze
Dates May 18,19,20
Location Scavezze Studios in Salida, CO.
Class is limited to 10 students
Cost for 3 day (24 hour) workshop is $300.00
Bring earplugs, and your favorite crosspeen hammers and hand tools. There will be some slides, some talk on process and technique, but mostly banging on metal with hammers. We will cover the making of spiculums, the concept of trading one curve for another, and various beginning concepts. Students will leave with enough knowledge and understanding of the concept to go back to their studio and actually make something. Students will learn to make hoop earrings and a bracelet. Its going to be fun. Email for details and things to bring. With $16.00/oz silver and $900/oz gold this class is particularly relevant because anticlastic pieces are very lightweight. Cost is $300.00
Materials cost is $50.00-$75.00
We will have tools available for purchase or bring yours if you have them. email info@scavezzegoldsmith.com for more info, or with questions. We take all the major credit cards. Hope to see you this spring. Jerry Scavezze
Tom Herman Workshop
Mon-Fri July 7-11. This is the full week just preceding the COMA conference in Salida.
Class price is $600.00.
Class Description:
A workshop on chasing, engraving, and piercing metal. In this workshop we'll make chasing tools , tune up hammers and sharpen gravers, all the better to carve with. Using Bas Relief techniques we'll sculpt metal into ornamental patterns. Students should come with clear ideas of what they want to achieve and how these techniques will enhance their own work. They're encouraged to bring pieces of their own work (castings, blank bands, and stones). We'll lay out patterns on a band with tracing punches that they will make. Then drill and saw pierce, and with gravers we will shape the ornament. Then with texturing punches we'll shape and define the ornament. Students are encouraged to practice saw piercing by cutting out coins (at least 3). We will be making the series of chasing punches that will get you started on being able to create any ornament. Practice drawing the kind of ornament you want to carve,the more you understand a pattern the better you can sculpt it.
Check out his work at www.sevenfingers.com. The photos on his website do not do his work justice. Tom is among the best in the country.
Job Opening
Ildanach Studios - a local, dynamic metalsmithing studio in Loveland,
Colorado is looking for 1 energetic, capable, motivated person. Due
to our current artist heading off to graduate school, we're looking
to fill our 35-40/week full time Production Artist position working in production of our award-winning, successful, recycled copper jewelry
line. We hope to fill the position by February 1st, 2008. Please
contact Curtis for more information at: (970)669-3835 -or- info@ildanachstudios.com
And check us out at http://www.ildanachstudios.com
Jerry McClure of Norman, Oklahoma wins Best Fixed Blade at Pasadena Knife Expo
The blade was forged with 15n20 and 1086 modified. The handle is a carved walrus ivory umbrella handle from the 1850's with mammoth ivory and sterling silver spacers.
Jim Cotter invited by the Crafts Council of Ireland to lecture and exhibit work in Ireland for Wild Geese: The Irish in America
Wild Geese: The Irish in America will feature work by Jim
Cotter, as well as a presentation by Cotter for the “Making it in the
USA” symposium coinciding with the exhibition. Cotter will discuss his
work and experiences as the owner of two successful art galleries in the U.S.
Wild Geese refers to the masses of Irish emigrants who fled Ireland in the
17th and 18th centuries. Today the term wild geese refers to the millions
of Irish descendents living throughout the world.
“Making it in the USA” and Wild Geese will be held at Kilkenny Castle in the National Crafts Gallery in Kilkenny, Ireland. Cotter will be showing a body of work demonstrating his use of alternative materials, humor, and wit in jewelry and sculpture.
The work can be viewed between March 31 and June 10, 2007 at the National
Crafts Museum, Monday – Saturday 10am – 6pm, and Sunday 11am –
6pm, admission is free. There will be a beautiful catalogue available accompanying
the show. For more information contact visit the Crafts Council of Irelands
website at www.ccoi.ie.
the Colorado school of jewelry and metal arts
Jerry Scavezze presents a new jewelry and metals school: The Colorado School of Jewelry and Metal Arts. Classes will be held in the Jerry Scavezze-Goldsmith Studio in Salida, CO. Salida is located 3 hours southwest of Denver, at 7,000 feet high in the Colorado Mountains. A great place for a weekend getaway or short vacation.
Jerry is a goldsmith known nationally for anticlastic raising and has been doing the process for 17 years. He has studied with both Heikki Seppa and Michael Good. His website is www.scavezzegoldsmith.com if you would like to look at his work.
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