3-D Design in Metal - Katy Cassell, Instructor
About Instructor Katy Cassell
Course Syllabus

Description

3-D Design in Metal is organized to introduce students to the fundamentals of designing and fabricating small-scale objects with sheet metal and wire. Course content involves students in four major activities:

DESIGNING THE OBJECT, which includes a review of the elements and principles of design; renderings to express ideas visually with shape; models to express ideas visually with form; and study of historical and contemporary metalwork.

LEARNING SAFE AND EFFICIENT USE OF STUDIO FACILITIES, including general safety requirements; demonstration of major equipment such as the acetylene torch, the bench shear, the rolling mill, the sandblaster, the hydraulic press, the polishing machine and the enameling kiln.

DEMONSTRATION OF PROCESSES AND TECHNIQUES, including cutting and piercing with the jeweler's saw; finishing by filing, sanding, polishing, chasing and repoussé; roller embossing; roller printing; annealing; forming by stretching, folding, and soldering; riveting; chemical coloring to create patina; and enameling.

CREATION OF 3-D METAL OBJECTS in a manner that reflects competence in design and technical approach, originality of design, craftsmanship, and suitability of materials and processes to the ideas and/or functions implied by the object.

Check out the new on-line metals gallery, featuring work from our 3-D metals students.

NEWS

The Metals Department is pleased to welcome internationally-known artist Boris Bally. His visit is supported by a grant from the Braitmayer Foundation for the Fine Arts Center Guest Artist Project and will tie into the visual arts curriculum of using discarded materials to make art. Boris Bally's award-winning work is both witty and innovative at employing the use of jeweler's skills on non-precious materials. His current body of work transforms recycled street signs, weapon parts, and a wide variety of found materials into objects for reflection. These pieces celebrate raw American street-aesthetic in the form of objects, often useful, for the home and the body. Check out www.borisbally.com to see more of his arresting artwork.

Mr. Bally will be presenting his work in an engaging lecture free and open to the public on Monday, November 15, at 7:30, and we invite you to come.