Nola Metalsmithing

SPRING 2025

ENROLLMENT NOTICE 8-WEEK COURSES

Thank you for your interest in the New Orleans School of Metalsmithing! This past September has brought some exciting changes to the operation as our teaching facility has been handed over to a new instructor along with a new course and workshop-based instruction model: NOLA Metalworks. These courses and workshops are being held at the same location: 2712 Royal St. NOLA 70117. This new teaching model is being facilitated by Jason Finkelman, an accomplished independent jeweler and metalsmith in the New Orleans area and, I am proud to say, an outstanding former student of mine. Website with complete course listings, detailed content descriptions and enrollment information: nolametalworks.com/workshops

NOLA Metalworks COURSES

SPRING 2025 Course Offerings

NOLA Metalworks INSTRUCTOR

Artist and Skilled Metalsmith

CREATE:

"I wanted to make things. I would look at the samples made by previous students of the New Orleans School of Metalsmithing and think, "I am light-years from being able to do that." I was wrong. What it took was a patient instructor who knew the craft and was willing to share both his time and expertise to bring my thoughts into fruition. You will work from day one. You will cut metal, you will work metal, you will solder metal and you will finish metal. By the end of that first class you will have something physical, but you walk away with something else: A belief that you have been introduced to a hidden world of art and magic. With care and dedication, you will be able to join and contribute to it."

~ Brian McCormick . LEVEL I

EXPLORE:

GALLERY

VALUE and ETHIC

TEACHER

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is nor how valuable nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep yourself open and aware to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. ... No artist is pleased. [There is] no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a queer divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

~Martha Graham

PROGRAM