COURSE DESCRIPTION: In this one-day workshop, you will learn to make a custom signet ring using the ancient lost-wax casting method. You’ll learn about the history of signet rings and emblems, then design your own. By hand-carving wax, students will create their own ring design and transfer it onto wax before engraving the design on the ring’s face. Using the lost-wax casting method, a mold will be made of the wax rings in plaster. Rings will be sent out for casting and finished rings will be available for pick up about three weeks after the workshop. During this workshop, students will gain basic wax-carving and engraving skills as well as an understanding of the lost-wax casting method.
Casting service in sterling silver is included with the purchase of this course.
INSTRUCTOR BIO: Marisa McCarthy is a painter and metalsmith from Massachusetts. She received a BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and a BA in Environmental Studies from Tufts University. Her practice approaches art-making as ethnography, creating multicultural objects and adornments.
COURSE WITHDRAWAL & TRANSFERS: All enrollments are subject to our REGISTRATION & ENROLLMENT POLICIES.