Intermediate Silversmithing with Marla Mencher | Tues 9:30am-12:30 pm | 4/22-5/20 | Spring 2025
Jewelry | Available
In this course, students will learn everything they need to know to create beautiful sterling and mixed metal jewelry! Learn how to shape, cut, pierce, solder and finish metals to create simple projects such as hammered silver rings, dangle earrings and tri-colored metal pendants. Marla Mencher offers demonstrations in varying smithing techniques and spends one-on-one time with students to develop their own unique designs. In the first few weeks of class, students can expect to finish a few completed beginner projects and gain experience using a wide variety of tools and machinery in the Art League's state of the art metal smithing studio. Bring a small pad, pencil, black marker and small plastic box or container for your projects. Material fee of $75 payable to instructor.
Thin sharpies, small sketch pad and pencil, pair of old driving gloves, any cabochons or sea glass you have that you’d like to work with. $75 materials fee payable to instructor.
Marla Mencher
I joined the Art League staff in 2014 as a jewelry instructor and am very excited to be here. I am A Fine Jewelry Artist with over 35 years experience in the Jewelry Field. My expertise is in all phases of metal fabrication (sterling, gold, copper, non-ferrous) including fine piecework, intricate soldering, and complex designing with precious and semi-precious stones. I have owned an operated 2 Fine Jewelry stores and presently consult and fabricate for several stores including my private clientele. I am also involved in the fine arts as an art teacher of oil painting and pastel at several High Schools and show my work in many galleries, including the Art League.
I love to teach and feel rewarded when my students produce their own unique jewelry pieces and finished artworks. My approach is through a step-by step-learning process, with practice exercises along the way . As a creative thinker, I am always looking for unique and different projects to stimulate my students’ growth, as well as my own.