What does it take to make a career in Jewelry design? Where in metro DC can you get started? Is there a formal program available? Check out my "Getting Ahead Guide on Jewelry making" in this weeks edition of the Washington Post Express.
An excerpt —
Gayle Friedman was a ceramic artist who made small figurative assemblages in porcelain for almost eight years. But her last year, she decided to take a metal jewelry-making class with instructor Anya Pinchuk at Corcoran College of Art + Design last year. “I learned some basic skills such as piercing (sawing), hammering and soldering, which enabled me to fabricate several sterling pendants and earrings based on drawings I made of the cocoa pod, a fur ring and fur cuff using recycled chinchilla, and some earrings using my mother’s old anodized aluminum knitting needles. It changed my career direction,” says sixteen-year DC area resident 44-year-old Friedman, who is now develop the three series she began while in Anya’s class: the cocoa pod and bean series of jewelry, and a line of jewelry using recycled fur.
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