Bronze Amulet - Sculpt & cast in one session.

Schedule

Wed, 06 Mar, 2024 at 11:00 am to Sat, 25 Oct, 2025 at 09:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Artisan's Asylum | Boston, MA

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This class will teach you how to make a custom bronze amulet from start to finish.
About this Event

Instructor - Bora Sitar


Fluent in various arts and crafts, Bora is a versatile sculptor, painter, and art mentor with interest in Alchemy and Visionary art. Her career as a gallerist, curator, and artist spans between Prague and her studio 414 at SOWA, 450 Harrison, Boston. Her Unique set of combined skills materializes in her artwork and teaching practice.



Class Description

Are you interested in discovering and learning new skills in one session?

This intense journey will result in creation of your own unique Bronze Amulet, that you will sculpt and cast yourself.

This class will teach developing personal design pattern, sculpting in polymer clay, using clay pattern to build sand mold, casting the pattern in bronze and finishing with cutting and polishing tools.


Class content:

* Introduction into clay-sculpting your personal Amulet from imagination inspired by provided symbolic imagery.

* Constructing a sand-casting mold of your unique pattern, made with Petrobond sand.

* Melting bronze in Electro-Melt and pouring metal into the mold to create unique casting of the personal pattern.

* Finishing the Amulet by grinding and polishing.



Material Fee

The materials fee for this class is $25. This is separate from the ticket price and is to reimburse the instructor for any tools or materials used in this class. This will be paid once, directly to the instructor at the start of the first class meeting. This instructor accepts payments in cash or through Venmo.



Class Goals

* Students will learn art history of amulet.

* Skills learned: clay sculpting, sand mold building around the pattern, sand-casting/pouring bronze into the mold, finishing the casted art piece.

* By the end of class students will become familiar with the complete process of sand-casting.



Material Supplied

Clay, sculpting and mold making tools, molds, Petrobond sand, bronze, finishing tools. Safety leather aprons, gloves, glasses and other tools are provided.



Students Should Bring

Closed-toe shoes. Natural fiber clothing, long sleeves and pants. Hair tied back, no loose jewelry or clothing. This class is not suitable for children. In case of ambivalence in final casting process, we can pour the metal into your mold for you.



Prerequisites

Students must be 18 years old or older.



Class Policies

Learn more about our class and ticket cancelation policies here.

Please email [email protected] with any questions.

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Artisan's Asylum, 96 Holton Street, Boston, United States

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USD 132.75

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