International Summer Academy 2015 at the Campus Idar-Oberstein

The International Summer Academy 2015

Our life and work is increasingly influenced by intercultural encounters. To unterstand the perspective of another person, to comprehend the self, and to exchange those views, becomes important when interacting with others and dealing with oneself.

The international summer academy wants to create an awareness for such processes by teaching modern as well as traditional techniques and thereby offering the possibility to transfer individual ideas into an aesthetic language.

From the 16th to the 29th of August, the University of Applied Sciences in Trier, Campus Idar-Oberstein, offers seven unique workshops for jewelry artists and students interested in arts and crafts.

The workshops take place in perfectly equipped studios and shops on campus and will be taught by artists from Germany, Columbia, Sweden, Spain and the USA.

The workshops are divided into stone carving, enamel, glass casting, filigree, material research for jewelry, needle solutions for brooches, and photography.

The program offers modules focusing not only on technical questions but also creative processes and allows the participants to learn new techniques, which they can use to express themselves visually. The two-week program allows for various combinations of the different workshops. The students can, based on their artistic interests, enroll for one or consecutive workshops.

The program is accompanied by a set of cultural activities and, as for example field trips to gemstone stores and mines in the region of Idar-Oberstein, Latin American jewelry dance, and the famous ”Hunsrücker Spießbraten”.

The main goal of the international summer academy is to create an environment of cultural exchange with the experience of the old and the new, the local and the global, and in which the participants can complete the artistic language of their own personal jewelry.

Tabea Reulecke

Programme

Enamel workshop with Danni Schwaag
Date: 17.08. - 21.08.2015
Duration: 5 days, 30 hours
Participants: min. 4 / max. 5
Fee: 340,00€
Language: German, English
Content: How to make your drawings lasting?
Fine crushed glass powder will be applied on copper and afterwards burned in a kiln. Different techniques like drawing and painting with enamel will be shown in several steps.

Stone carving workshop with Alexander Friedrich
Date: 17.08. - 21.08. 2015
Duration: 5 days, 35 hours
Participants: min. 4 / max. 6
Fee: 390,00€
Language: German, English
Content: Fascination gemstone.
Here you will get the basic knowledge about stone grinding and faceting. You will find your own stone and give it the shape you want. Professional supervision will help to light the fire.

Glass casting workshop with William Rudolph Faulkner
Date: 17.08. - 21.08. 2015
Duration: 5 days, 30 hours
Participants: min. 4 / max. 4
Fee: 340,00€
Language: English
Content: Introduction to the processes of making small glass castings.
You will learn how to use clay, wax and plaster to make original designs with the lost wax method of mold making. Self made objects can be directly translated into glass.

“Attraction and Repulsion” workshop with Märta Mattsson
Date: 23.08. - 25.08. 2015
Duration: 3 days, 24 hours
Participants: min. 6 / max. 20
Fee: 200,00 €
Language: English
Content: “Within my workshop I want to open up a door to a new way of thinking as well as getting you to embrace and attack the way that you work from a personal and psychological aspect.”
 
“Two Sides - One Story” The Perfect Needle Solution For Your Brooch  workshop with Daniela Malev
Date: 23.08. - 25.08. 2015
Duration: 3 days, 24 hours
Participants: min. 4 / max. 8
Fee: 275,00 €
Language: German, English, Spanish
Content: In the field of contemporary jewelry the brooch is the most common and also most discussed form of jewelry. One of the special challenges is to find an adequate solution for the needle which connects the piece securely to the wearer. It should be an essential part in terms of content and aesthetics.

Filigree workshop with Susanne Matché
Date: 26.08. - 28.08. 2015
Duration: 3 days, 24 hours
Participants: min. 4 / max. 10
Fee: 275,00 €
Language: German, English
Content: Here you will learn how to prepare decorative wires, how to make your own solder, build a frame to be filled with delicate ornaments and create a three dimensional piece.

Photography workshop with Manuel Ocaña Mascaró
Date: 26.08. - 29.08. 2015
Duration: 4 days, 24 hours
Participants: min. 4 / max. 8
Fee: 265,00€
Language: English, Spanish
Content: This workshop will teach you basic skills in photography with the focus on jewelry and portraits, as well about how to build your own photo studio in 12 hours.