The Dimensional Model: Imagining in Scale
A Great Workshop for Sculptors, Blacksmiths, Metalsmiths and Jewelers!
Saturday & Sunday, October 25 & 26, 2008, 9am – 5pm
Taught by visiting artist, lecturer and Master Metalsmith, Gary Griffin

Within the physical space of the bench, students will focus upon the scale model and its usefulness in conceiving and building larger work. The class will begin with an introduction to the architects scale and its application. Once having developed a working relationship with the scale, students will quickly build scale models of their choosing. The models may be made of most any material, and will initially emphasize rapid ideation, but in time will anticipate their materiality and form as larger objects.

This workshop will be especially valuable to those that imagine their work larger. For the jeweler as well as the sculptor, the workshop will present model scale as a useful method for realizing one’s ideas.

Gary S. Griffin lives and works in El Rito, New Mexico. In 2004, Glenn Adamson interviewed Griffin for the Archives of American Art/Oral History Program, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. In 2005, Griffin was elected to the American Crafts Council College of Fellows. In 2007, he was a resident artist at the John Michael Kohler Co. Arts and Industry program and in 2008 he was given the Master Metalsmith Award by the National Ornamental Metal Museum in Memphis, TN. Before his retirement in 2006, Griffin was the Artist in Residence and Head of Metalsmithing at Cranbrook Academy of Art for 22 years.

For more information and regitration form please visit  www.seattlemetalsguild.org

 

Presented by SMG (Seattle Metals Guild) For more information about this workshop contact: workshop@seattlemetalsguild.org