Silver II - Heidi Mandich

Silver II - Heidi Mandich

Class | Registration opens 12/2/2024 10:00 AM EST

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7/13/2025-7/18/2025
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$200.00

Silver II - Heidi Mandich

Class | Registration opens 12/2/2024 10:00 AM EST

SILVER II: PIERCING, HOLLOW FORM, FUSING & STONE SETTING BEYOND BEZELS
INSTRUCTOR: HEIDI MANDICH

Our focus in Silver II will be to strengthen sawing and soldering skills and help you develop your own design esthetic. This will be done through a couple of projects that will build on techniques from your Silver I foundation. We will continue to explore unique advantages of using Argentium Sterling Silver (940). For sawing, we will make a pair of matched earrings using a jeweler's saw to create intricate pierced (interior cuts) designs. For Argentium we will learn the advantages of its fusing properties and clean finish to balls as design elements, by creating a fused pendant. For soldering skills, we will construct a hollow form piece with multiple solder joins and learn how variations of this form can be incorporated into your own jewelry designs. Students will then design and create their own project incorporating these new skills and include setting a stone beyond basic bezel setting which can include prong or tab set, perhaps a combination, maybe incorporating a unique or unusual stone shape.

Closed toed shoes are required and long hair needs to be tied back. Please bring eye protection - glasses or readers are fine or safety glasses.

Class fees include printed materials for techniques, step by step detailed instructions for class projects, along with consumables (fuel, flux, solder, patina, saw blades, drill bits, solder brick, sandpaper) plus use of tools and equipment, as well as specialty tools and equipment provided by the instructor. It will also include Argentium Sterling Silver (940) for 2 projects.

ClassFee: $195 (includes Argentium for earrings and fused pendant)
Est Materials Fee: $150-$250 I will have Argentium Sterling Silver available to purchase for hollow form project as well as some stones, other metals for accent if needed - sheet, wire and tubing
Prerequisite: Silver I (student needs to be comfortable sawing with a jewelers saw and soldering multiple solder joints)


 

Mandich, Heidi
Heidi Mandich

Heidi first discovered her passion for metalsmithing while taking a class at the Indianapolis Art Center in 2006. Using hammers, saws, fire and imagination, Heidi enjoys taking simple sterling silver sheet and wire and turning it into unique jewelry for people to enjoy and treasure. She continues to learn from experts in the field every year. “Metalwork…reshaping and reforming metal to become something you have envisioned is exciting …especially when it becomes what was in your head.”

In 2010 Heidi was asked to teach at the Indianapolis Art Center in the same studio where she first learned. She discovered her greatest joy is helping adult students find the same passion of using fire and tools to create jewelry from simple pieces of metal.

In 2011, Heidi took early retirement from her “day job” to follow her passion full time. She does art fairs throughout the Midwest, and continues to teach at the Indianapolis Art Center, and other venues, including William Holland in 2022 (after a 2 year wait 2020-2021). In and around these, she pursues learning opportunities to continue to grow creatively.

In 2014 Heidi was selected to join Indiana Artisans, a juried organization representing the best of art in Indiana as well as CCA Gallery, the oldest member owned coop art gallery in Indiana. In 2022, Heidi was invited to join Art IN Hand; another juried coop art gallery established in 2000, in Zionsville, Indiana. In 2022 & 2023, she was selected as a finalist for the Skip McKinney Faculty of the Year Award at the Indianapolis Art Center.