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

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

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

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

Class | Available

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 t hen  design  and  create  their own  project incorporating these  new skills  and in clude 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.

Class Fee: $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.