The Bedazzled Form
Session 5 | August 10–22
Handle With Care, 2019 by Taylor Zarkades King. Jewelry (ring); wood, aluminum, crayon wax, glass beads, sequin. 2.5” x 1.75” x 0.75”.
Orange Stripe, 2023 by Everett Hoffman. Zinc, Vintage rhinestones. 3.5”x2”x.25”.
Form, color, and movement unite in this fabrication and stone setting intensive workshop. Participants will learn the fundamentals of hollow form fabrication and stone setting techniques to produce one-of-a-kind jewelry and small sculptures. The workshop will be structured around a series of demonstrations to learn hollow forming using the hydraulic die press, rectilinear forming, and fabrication methods. From there, a variety of traditional and alternative settings will be used to embellish your forms. Chain, brooch mechanisms, and other kinetic parts will be demonstrated to add movement and function to your pieces. Participants will design and fabricate their own unique, bedazzled objects. Whether you have years of experience or have never touched a rivet hammer, this workshop will enhance the practice of both beginners and seasoned makers. All levels welcome
Taylor Zarkades King (she/they) is a multi-disciplinary artist whose craft-based practice sways between a jeweler's bench and a studio that finds its form through larger configurations of wood, metal, & fiber. King received her MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University (2019) and a BFA from California College of Arts (2010). She was an artist in residence with EDITIONBasel at Druckwerks (2013), the artist in residence with Quirk Gallery + VisArts Center (2019), and a Pentaculum resident in Metals at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts (2022). She is a participating artist of Radical Jewelry Makeover’s RJM Artist Project, a Jewelry Edition Vol. 5 alumni, and has exhibited in the US, Switzerland, Mexico, and China.
Everett Hoffman (they/them) is a cross-disciplinary artist living in Philadelphia, PA. They have been a visiting artist at several universities around the U.S. and is currently a critic in the Jewelry + Metalsmithing department at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, RI. In 2024, Hoffman was a finalist for the Art Jewelry Forum Young Artist Award where they exhibited with Galerie Platina at Handwerk und Design in Munich, Germany. They were a resident artist at Penland School of Craft, completed a yearlong residency at Arrowmont School of Art and Craft, and a three-month residency at the Baltimore Jewelry Center. Hoffman’s work has been published in BmoreArt, Metalsmith, and Jewelry and Metalsmithing Survey. They have written for the Metalsmith and Art Jewelry Forum, as well as been invited to speak at the JMGA Conference in Perth Australia, and the Museum of Art and Design during New York Jewelry Week. Hoffman’s work has been exhibited at the Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY; Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach, VA; Contemporary Craft Museum, Pittsburgh, PA; Sienna Patti Gallery, Lennox, MA; Metal Museum, Memphis, TN; and the Benaki Museum in Athens, Greece. They received an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University and BFA from Boise State University. Hoffman’s current body of work examines contemporary protection and iconographic communication forms illuminated through lights, sculptural forms, and body adornment.