Intensive Courses
ANAMMA organizes intensive courses with distinguished artists from Greece and from abroad. Our aim is to present various perspectives, techniques and approaches to contemporary jewelry. These courses are short term, may be of a conceptual nature but they can also be about more specialized techniques for creating jewelry.
Micro-sculpture & Casting jewelry
Jewelry has always been connected to sculpture ever since antiquity. This seminar is an introduction to micro-sculpture and the process of lost wax, widely known as cast jewelry. Participants will learn several techniques of silversmithing on special hard wax. They...
Urban Organisms
The workshop will focus on individual guidance for the development of a more personal way of working. Through the conceptual assignment "Urban Organisms" participants will have the chance to create a small series of work.However, the emphasis will be on concept...
Enamel
Enamel – a technique discovered centuries ago – involves a layer of glass of various colours which can decorate metal surfaces. During this 2-day seminar, we will discover the basic enamel techniques, we will experiment and we will colour simple geometric patterns...
Mold making and the casting process
In the course of 6000 years of the history of casting, certain techniques have become established. The workshop with Peter Bauhuis will focus on methods of mold making used in sculpture and the making of jewellery and vessels. The qualities of wax allow working in...
Casting jewelry using soft wax
Introduction into the world of small three-dimensional forms – small sculptures / jewelry – by taking advantage of the fact that soft waxes are easy to mold. Jewelry is made entirely out of wax and then wax is replaced by metal in the process of casting. We will...
Jewelry & Metalworking – Linkages
The goal of this seminar is to come into contact with some kinds of basic linkages such as rivets, screws and hinges in order to create rotating, detachable or screw parts by using three different materials of distinct hardness each. We will design and study an...
Leather
In this one-day seminar, we will explore the techniques applied on leather and we will experiment with our material in various ways. In particular, we will work with different leather qualities. We will learn how we can attribute mass to the material, as well as...
Intensive course / Basic silversmithing techniques
This intensive course focuses on the theories and traditional techniques of silversmithing. It is addressed to those who want to discover the world of silversmithing and broaden their knowledge on metalworking techniques. Participants will have the chance to explore...
Perspective
The etymology of the word “perspective” refers to “look at it” or “look through it”. If you look at something closely or if you look through it and you see it in a different way, it is as if opening your mind. You start paving a new way with new viewpoints...
Plastics
In this workshop, we will discover the world of plastics. We will find out their proerties, origin and composition. The objective is to comprehend the differences among several types of plastics and experiment with various acrylics. The main focus will involve...
Jewelry & Metalworking – Soldering
The seminar “Jewelry & Metalworking” focuses on the theories and traditional techniques of silversmithing/goldsmithing. It is addressed to those who want to expand their knowledge on metal treatment techniques. During the two-month seminar on soldering,...
Micro sculpture & Cast jewelry
Jewelry has always been connected to sculpture ever since antiquity. This seminar is an introduction to micro-sculpture and the process of lost wax, widely known as cast jewelry. Participants will learn several techniques of silversmithing on special hard wax....
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