Featured Workshop
The Mokume Gane Box Class - 3 days, online via Zoom
January 18, 19, & 25 , 2025
10am-4pm Pacific Time
2 Office hours Thursdays January 23 & 30, 4-5pm pacific time
Tuition $395 + $85-$165 kit fee (+tax & shipping - sold separately)
Mokume gane is an ancient Japanese technique that uses fused layers of different metals to form organic patterns. Starting with a ready-to-pattern billet, participants will dive into the quick and satisfying stamp method of patterning mokume gane. Next they will fabricate their uniquely patterned sheet into a soldered hollow-form box with mokume gane lid. Skills covered include patterning mokume gane, box design, forging, texturing, fabrication, soldering, finishing and patination. Multiple box design ideas will be shown, with options for different levels of experience.
Read more & register.
Important: After buying the class, be sure to come back and purchase your kit. Only 10 deluxe kits available!
January 18, 19, & 25 , 2025
10am-4pm Pacific Time
2 Office hours Thursdays January 23 & 30, 4-5pm pacific time
Tuition $395 + $85-$165 kit fee (+tax & shipping - sold separately)
Mokume gane is an ancient Japanese technique that uses fused layers of different metals to form organic patterns. Starting with a ready-to-pattern billet, participants will dive into the quick and satisfying stamp method of patterning mokume gane. Next they will fabricate their uniquely patterned sheet into a soldered hollow-form box with mokume gane lid. Skills covered include patterning mokume gane, box design, forging, texturing, fabrication, soldering, finishing and patination. Multiple box design ideas will be shown, with options for different levels of experience.
Read more & register.
Important: After buying the class, be sure to come back and purchase your kit. Only 10 deluxe kits available!
Book Launch, Holiday Party, & Pop-up Shop
Save the Date - December 6, 2024
Author Talk & Signing, giveaways and holiday shopping!
Join us December 6 at 5:00 p.m. for a Book Launch Party as we debut Bette Barnett’s hot-off-the-press new book, Creating Steel Jewelry. Rated by Amazon as Top New Release in both Metal Art and Jewelry Craft, the book offers a wealth of knowledge, techniques and inspiration for beginners and experienced artists alike.
In addition to an author’s talk and Q&A, new jewelry and metalwork by Bette Barnett and Anne Wolf will be on exhibit, Ame of MondoBop will have a pop-up shop with gifts and gear for metal arts peeps, and there will be refreshments and giveaways!
When: 5-8pm, December 6, 2024
Where: Anne's studio - 2750 Historic Decatur Road #209, San Diego CA 92106
What: celebrate Bette's new book, shop for holiday gifts, chat with fellow metals artists
Who: everyone is welcome!
Cost: Free!
Author Talk & Signing, giveaways and holiday shopping!
Join us December 6 at 5:00 p.m. for a Book Launch Party as we debut Bette Barnett’s hot-off-the-press new book, Creating Steel Jewelry. Rated by Amazon as Top New Release in both Metal Art and Jewelry Craft, the book offers a wealth of knowledge, techniques and inspiration for beginners and experienced artists alike.
In addition to an author’s talk and Q&A, new jewelry and metalwork by Bette Barnett and Anne Wolf will be on exhibit, Ame of MondoBop will have a pop-up shop with gifts and gear for metal arts peeps, and there will be refreshments and giveaways!
When: 5-8pm, December 6, 2024
Where: Anne's studio - 2750 Historic Decatur Road #209, San Diego CA 92106
What: celebrate Bette's new book, shop for holiday gifts, chat with fellow metals artists
Who: everyone is welcome!
Cost: Free!
Other News
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Summer Mokume Gane at Metalwerx, Boston
Revisiting a highlight of my summer - teaching a 5 day mokume gane class as part of Metalwerx's "Summer with the Masters" in Boston, August 2024. It was an ambitious curriculum - fusing, patterning, AND making a sake cup, in only 5 days. But the 12 students who signed up for it were an amazing bunch and they tackled everything with enthusiasm and energy; it was a joy to behold. And we did it! Take a look at the photos to see them hard at work, but still laughing and having a great time. Read more and see all the pics.
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Museum Acquisition!
I really wasn't sure how my set of four sake cups titled "Matched Set" would be received at the Metal Museum's recent show "There's No Place Like Home." About a month after the show ended (long after I'd received the works back), I received an email saying they were the 'show-stopper' of the exhibition, and they'd like to purchase them. Wow! The Metal Museum is the only museum in the US dedicated to showing and preserving fine metalwork. It's been going since the 1970's, located in Memphis and exists without any government funding. It has an impressive collection of important works by many metal artists I respect and admire. It is such an honor to have my work displayed among them. And such a different feeling selling my work to a place where I know it will be taken care of and seen by the public. Thank you Metal Museum! And if you're in Memphis, be sure to stop by.
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Free Metal Arts Events
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Looking for Sawing Circle? You can join from here!
Online Sawing Circle When: 1st and 3rd Tuesdays 5:30-7pm Pacific. Where: Online via Zoom - Cost: FREE Our Sawing Circle is like a book club but instead of reading, we work on cool stuff, help each other with problems, share ideas and provide accountability for ongoing work. If you've been looking for support for moving forward on your projects then this is the online gathering for you. Join us from your studio to work in the good conversation and company of like-minded friends. Totally free, no need to RSVP, simply make yourself a snack, settle at your bench and click the button to join in. I don't attend all the time, but when I am there, I'm happy to answer any mokume or other metals question, general or specific. Even if I'm not there, you'll still have fun, I promise! |
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"Anne was so wonderful to work with for my fiancé's wedding ring! She answered all of our questions during the process and above all, the ring is gorgeous, beautiful, unique and perfect! Thank you, Anne. You have created an heirloom we will treasure for a long time." ~ Emily & Greg |
"Mokume gane patterning with chisels was one of the most enjoyable courses I've ever done." ~ Helen M, Sydney, Australia |