Silver III - Heidi Mandich

Silver III - Heidi Mandich

Class | Registration opens 12/2/2024 9:00 AM EST

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7/20/2025-7/25/2025
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$200.00

Silver III - Heidi Mandich

Class | Registration opens 12/2/2024 9:00 AM EST

SILVER III: BASKET AND PEDESTAL PRONG SETTING
INSTRUCTOR: HEIDI MANDICH

You've made lovely faceted stones (or purchased some). You've created beautiful cabochons (or bought them). Now what?  Let's set them in an amazing personally created pendant!

This class we will focus on 3 skills that, once learned, you can apply to many other settings.

  • We will create a basket setting for your faceted stone.
  • Create a pedestal prong setting for your cabochon
  • Then complete your design by adding a simple hinged bale

 

*Pre-work before we meet will include thinking of and sketching out design ideas, gathering stones you want to bring to include in your piece. I will have some sets available for purchase if you choose.

We will review studio safe practices when we work. Closed toed shoes are required, bring eye protection (readers are ok) and a way to tie back long hair if needed.

You will also get to use and enjoy my selection of specialty tools to experience working with them.  Kit will include Argentium sterling silver (940), sheet, wire and tubing for you to create your first piece. If you want to create additional pieces, I will have more Argentium and some stones available for purchase.

Class Fee: $195 (includes Argentium 940 sheet, wire and tubing for your first custom piece) 
Est. Materials Fee: $100-$250.  Extra materials, Argentium Sterling Silver (940) and stones will be available for purchase.
Prerequisite: This is a Level III Class – Silver I and Silver II prior.  Strong soldering skills are necessary to be successful in this class.

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.