Cold Connections I: Vintage Metals - Arlene Lazzaro

Cold Connections I: Vintage Metals - Arlene Lazzaro

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

Cold Connections I: Vintage Metals - Arlene Lazzaro

Class | Available

MIXED METALS: COLD CONNECTIONS WITH VINTAGE METALS

INSTRUCTOR: ARLENE LAZZARO

 

Ever wonder what to do with those old, silver plated platters and trays that your mother or grandmother had? Or the ones you run across in flea markets and thrift stores?

Well then, this is the class for you! We will take those vintage silver plated platers, candy dishes and combine them with copper, brass and nickel silver sheet to create new wearable  Art!

We will use the Rolling Mill, Hydraulic Press, polishing machines, jeweler’s saw and Patinas to upcycle these metals using rivets to connect. The Lab Fee will include all consumables, vintage metals, sheet metal, wire, assorted beads and stones and minerals to complete at least 5 class projects!  Most students complete several more.

Class Fee: $195

Est. Materials Fee: $0+

Prerequisites: None


Lazzaro, Arlene
Arlene Lazzaro

Arlene earned a bachelor’s degree in interior design and art history and considers herself an artist and craftsman. Following her daughter's love of rocks, she soon was attending William Holland to learn to wrap her daughter’s cabochons.  She found her calling in metal work and became an instructor in several mediums at her local Gem & Mineral Society, The Great Bead Escape retreat and Wild Acres EFMlS. A longtime mentor and fine jeweler, Don Dietz, taught her techniques in creating jewelry from Black Coral found on the beaches of Florida and has incorporated other techniques she learned to create beautiful Jewelry from Black Coral.