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.
Cement in Jewelry
During this two-day seminar, participants will have the chance to create sample work from various types of cement. We will experiment in order to find out the material’s properties and potentials. We will make small-scale moulds, use colour, create decorative...
Meaning & Touch – Material interpretations
“The artist is a man who finds that the form or shape of things externally corresponds, in some strange way, to the movements of his mental and emotional life. (Graham Collins) As makers, we use our hands to put meaning into objects, by touching and transforming the...
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...
Finding My Way
Workshop Objectives The aim of this workshop is to offer the appropriate time and place to explore and re-charge individual creative processes and to support self-expression, whether you are working as a jewelry artist or as a designer. Many factors may inhibit our...
Anticlastic metal forming: a seminar on the need, the tool and the implementation of the impossible
The intention to imitate nature is what probably led the Mycenaean goldsmith to create a series of gold jewelry with anticlastic surfaces. Thirty three centuries later, a great Finnish master metalsmith, Heikki Seppa, will name this technique “Anticlastic Metal...
Creative Routes
In this course, the goal is primarily to liberate the mind through several exercises of experimentation and play, so that we can set ourselves free of any constraints. At the same time, through observation, we will try to understand the mechanisms of creativity –...
MIXED METAL TECHNIQUES AND TREATMENT OF SURFACES
3ήμερο σεμινάριο με την Daniela Boieri
5-7 Ιουνίου 2015
Διάρκεια: 15 ώρες
Mixed metal and treatment of surfaces” course will be an exploration of the techniques for mixing metals, a demonstration of how a collaboration or interaction of metal sheet or wire at the melting stage can create fabulous organic results.
Attributing human movement through jewelry
2μήνο σεμινάριο με την Αγγέλικα Κόμη
3 Απριλίου – 5 Ιουνίου 2015
Διάρκεια: 36 ωρών
Στο σεμινάριο αυτό θα κάνουμε μια μελέτη του ανθρώπινου σώματοςΘα κατασκευασουμε μέρη περιστρεφόμενα ή αποσπώμενα ή βιδωτά
FROM WAX TO JEWELRY
In this workshop we will experience a different approach and an alternative way of working with wax. Wax gives us the opportunity to make jewelry without professional tools and machineries. Because of its nature it offers plenty of possibilities to work with, such...
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...
Out of the box
What can come out of a creative process that is beyond the ordinary by using simple materials and tools? Will there be a change in the form, the shape and the quality of the object? To what extent can you intervene in a cheap material? How could you transform it...
Hammering in search of rhythm and harmony
The transformation of a metal sheet into an object – a three dimensional piece of jewelry – is an enchanting procedure that hides several secrets and surprises within it. The hammer, anvil and fire are the tools; rhythm and harmony, though, are the soul of the...
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