A foundation in silversmithing with Robert Birch
Sats 3/10/17 Nov, 10am-1pm, £75
A foundation course for newcomers to silversmithing and jewellery - three highly focused morning workshops to discover design approaches and some of the extraordinary library of skills needed to produce fine work - a time to gather new and special knowledge in the making of a sample work. The tutor, Sam Hunt, is an experienced silversmith and goldsmith with a thriving workshop at Willingham by Stow.
Using metals in jewellery making with Robert Birch
Sun 4 Nov, 10am-4pm, £45
For newcomers and moderately experienced makers an opportunity to explore simple casting, use forming techniques to work with sheet material and try out a microwelding machine in the making of wire assemblages.
Robert Birch is the course leader for production design at the University of Sunderland and brings a wealth of experience in jewellery making and silversmithing.
Sheet metal and sculpting with Giles Corby
Sun 11 November, £45
Simple but incredibly effective techniques for turning small scale sculptural ideas into real forms through the working of mild steel sheet that can be treated to yield interesting colours and surfaces.
The workshop will provide students with the skills to apply to all sorts of future outcomes.
Nuno felt making with Sheila Smith
Sun 21 Oct, 10am-4.pm, £45
Nuno felting is a remarkable skill, a way of making felt by working into a fine weave base - it gives a fabric that is as light as a whisper and can be used in so many ways.
Sheila Smith, a widely acknowledged textiles expert, will work alongside students to build a library of techniques and skills. A little experience of felt making would be useful but not essential.
Vegetable dyeing with Jenny Dean
Sat 10 Nov, 10am-5pm,
cancelled
A textile workshop exploring surface and stitch, ‘fragments’ with Gizella K Warburton
Sun 11 Nov, 10am-4pm, £45
A workshop for makers who want to use textiles and stitch in building images.
There’s a long tradition of experimental image making in textiles, using collages, assemblages and stitch. The workshop provides an opportunity to join other students and a skilled workshop leader in translating visual ideas into textile form.
The stimulus can be from anywhere - postcards, magazine cuttings, the internet or sketch book. Bring the starting point for a valuable, thinking and making day.
Design skills for public art: on the road with Dave Brodie
Sat 13 Oct, times to be announced, delegate cost: £45
North Kesteven has a high concentration of public art works, made on behalf of and with the communities of the many villages across this rural landscape.
The number is growing with Spires and Steeples, a project to mark the journey between Lincoln and Sleaford with roadside furniture.
Unusually for a Hub course, the workshop will be on the road, travelling from site to site, looking at the works, asking questions about purpose and process, and adding skills and knowledge to the folios of the students. It’s a way of building an expertise about the practical, aesthetic and other conditions for great public art in the company of a skilled teacher and artist. Meeting point and itinerary to be announced.
Design Technology in the secondary curriculum
Wed 17 Oct, 9.30am-3.30pm, £18
A small scale conference for teachers to design new collaborative and innovative practice alongside peers (see page 4).
Learning to draw for design with Barry Hepton
Sat 29 Sept, 10am-1pm, £15
Being able to visually represent ideas is an essential skill for a designer and can be learnt with far greater ease than is supposed. Here is a single session of focused learning that will help anyone with an aspiration to design anything from jewellery to house. The three hours will include simple pencil and line techniques, drawing three dimensional objects and perspective techniques - a straightforward and valuable skills library.
A day for aspiring designers
Wed 31 Oct, 9.30am-3pm, £3.50
A workshop for Year Twelve students from Lincolnshire schools. See Design Days
Architectural modelmaking with Barry Hepton
Sat 3 Nov, 4pm, £45
It’s a good state of affairs that programmes such as Grand Designs have challenged home owners and others to think afresh about the design of buildings and their surroundings.
Here’s a day long course to change ideas into three dimensional realities as a way of both testing the original thinking and communicating to others.
The course, aimed at newcomers to model making, will provide delegates with a broad library of techniques and knowledge about materials to make model objects as various as brick walls, trees and landscapes.
Embossing with Gemma Wright
Sat 06 Oct, 10am-4pm, £45
On this day you will be shown various techniques of printmaking without ink.
Utilising methods of collagraph and the immediacy of paper stencils and textures. Gemma will guide you through this inspiring and unique process to produce clean, minimal prints. You will also receive advice on specialist paper, registration techniques and editionning.
Painterly monoprints with Nichola Hingley
Sat 13 Oct, 10am-4pm, £45
Nichola will show you the spontaneous process of monoprinting. Using rolling, wiping and masking techniques you will be encouraged to be expressive and experimental with colour and composition. You will be shown a variety of techniques, applying both press and non-press methods and in building up your image through the use of overprinting you will create vibrant monoprints with vivid, painterly effects.
Etching with Pete Dobson
Sat 20 Oct, 10am-4pm, £45
Pete will show delegates how to master hard ground etching. Using traditional tools you will be taken through the various stages of the technique from plate preparation to the ferric etching process.
You will learn how to create prints with a rich, dense line, in addition to the inking, proofing and printing of the plate.
Japanese books with Sarah Kirby
Sun 4 Nov, 10am-4pm, £45
Japanese bookbinding offers one of the most versatile and elegant of bookmaking styles. Starting with the stitched four hole book as a model. you will sew a set of notebooks with different decorative stitch patterns...and a traditional hinged bookcase or folding box (chitsu) to store them in.
Paper making with Jonathon Korejko
Sun 18 Nov, 10am-4pm, £45
For Christmas fun, or for making greeting cards at other times of year for special days, etc. Using screenprinting and relief printing techniques.
You will first learn how to make use of screenprinting equipment, which has been specially designed for this programme, and then how to prepare hand-cut paper stencils. You’ll then print on to paper and card, employing techniques of colour printing and over printing. Once you have got the knack for screenprinting, you can make a small, limited edition set of greetings cards.
These can also have greetings printed inside the cards with the use of a portable relief printing press. Screen-printing can also be used to print other festive items on paper or cloth, like serviettes, Christmas tree ornaments, gift tags and the like.
All the equipment and materials required for this course are supplied.
Papermaking with Jonathon Korejko
Thurs 25 Oct, 10am-12.30pm, £5
Handmade paper is made from recycled paper, and can also contain lot of other items, like flowers, leaves, feathers and confetti. In this workshop, you’ll learn how to make use of these colourful papers to create greeting cards, mobiles, bowls, and and/or jewellery. There will be a festive feel about this programme, so many of the things we make will be ideal for use as Christmas decorations as well.
All handmade papers will be supplied, but if you have any which you have made, bring them along so that we can use them in the workshop. Children should be at least 8 years old.
Creative mosaics with Sarah Graves
Fri 26 Oct, 1.30-4pm £5
The most ancient of crafts, with brilliant contemporary applications, mosaics are easy to design and create. Our family workshop will provide children and adults alike with very practical and hands on experience of designing, cutting, forming and finishing a small mosaic sample - the start of a longer project?
Raku Day with Richard Gibson
Sat 27 Oct, 10am-4pm, £13.50
Following July’s enjoyable and successful weekend, a full day’s workshop with Richard to look in greater detail at raku pot making and firing, selecting and experimenting with different glazes and surface patterns. Bring leaves and other dry organic material. Potters may wish to bring modest sized biscuit fired vessels.
