What a Great Relief! The Repoussé Process with Linda Priest
This workshop is about sculpting metal directly to create reliefs on small-scale sculptures or jewelry. Linda will demonstrate the process she utilizes in all of her wearable pieces. Students will learn the basics on how to move and control the metal by intensely working both sides with the use of finely shaped tools, a hammer and a pitch bowl, to achieve amazing depth and forms. It is a process where you can be more expressive, because it is just you, simple tools and a hammer intently moving the metal, giving you a change embed a bit of your personality into what you are making. Demonstrations will cover 3 entirely different projects that will show you how to push and stretch the metal in a controlled fashion to develop dimensions, shapes and textures. Tools will be discussed, how to make your own, reshaping purchased ones, hammers, pitch, pitch bowls, and metals.
Organizer
Linda Priest has been a professional craftsperson for decades, and has been in over 100 gallery and craft shows and sold through galleries, museums and stores around the country. She is in the permanent collections of: Museum of Fine Art, Boston, MA; Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI; Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA. Her works have been in 12 books including “Masters Gold” by Lark Books (2009) and “Artful Adornments” depicting jewelry from the Museum of Fine Arts , Boston (2011). Several articles on her work are published in the national “Metalsmith” magazine. She graduated from the School of the Museum Of Fine Arts in Boston where she studied sculpture, drawing and metal, winning the Longstreth and Mary Ripley scholarships plus 6 Boit awards and also completed a 5th year graduate teaching fellowship. Linda taught at the School of the Museum of fine Arts in Boston for over 30 years.
Venue
The Armory Art Center campus facilities include three buildings dedicated to art classes, a sculpture garden, and an interior tented courtyard.
The Armory Art Center provides art classes for students of all ages, exhibitions, art salons, lectures, and special events. Nearly 100 courses held in 12 state-of-the-art studios are offered including
- ceramics, photography & digital media, drawing, jewelry, painting, printmaking, textiles & fiber, and sculpture.
- Youth art classes and summer art camps are offered.
- Various exhibitions are hosted throughout the year in three galleries.
- The campus, located at 811 Park Place, West Palm Beach, at the south end of Howard Park, includes three buildings—the two former Palm Beach County National Guard Armory buildings and the Young Artists Studio Facility.
