Contemporary Fine Art Jewelry Society of Salt Lake City
Society Nights - Wednesday nights. Teacher Bitch at the helm once again.Here we are again...or still. Class hasn't stopped except for a two week break but I haven't written due to computer and general blogging illiteracy issues. But I think I've got it figured out now. This is not really a class but rather a gathering. We are here to promote the fine art of silversmithing in Utah. No glue guns or cricut cutters here. Nope, we're Bitches.....with hammers.
So much has happened since my last/first post. I've met so many more Bitches! We started with four but we're up to nine now and I'm finding it hard to give everyone bitch names that fit. Persnickety Bitch is one, she actually named herself. She's sweet and seems pretty even keeled to me but that girl melted pennies the first time we met. Beware when walking past her bench when she's got the torch fired up. If pennies melted just think of the hair loss that could occur... Just kidding, really. Persnickety Bitch really is skilled at wielding a torch. Teacher Bitch was concerned melting pennies was probably a capital offense but upon closer inspection she came to the conclusion that those pennies couldn't have been pure copper..... Perhaps Persnickety Bitch has got something on the federal mint...
Next is I Hate You Bitch. Yep, I gave her that name. Why, you ask? Well, this Bitch just started metalsmithing and has already made more in the past two months than I have in the past year. She's got one class under her belt but take one peek in her tool box and you'd think she she's been doing this years. She's already got a shop set up in her kitchen and shows up at class each week with at least two new projects she just whipped together during the week. I don't really hate her...I just hate that I'm not producing as much as she is. This is I Hate You Bitch's bear claw in the making......
Bird Bitch. I first met Bird Bitch a couple years ago. The teacher in that class had encouraged us to bring in past projects and Bird Bitch brought in pieces that she had made in a class she took in Mexico. We were all pretty blown away. This girl's got talent. Design, fabrication, innovation...T.A.L.E.N.T. So where does the name come from? She showed up in this current class with a pheasant's foot that she had cast in silver and is going to make into a bracelet. Very cool. That was day one. Yesterday she came to class with a show box filled with bird skulls. One of them was for Teacher Bitch. Gone are the days when you bring an apple for Teacher. I can't wait to see what comes of the bird bones....Here are a couple of Bird Bitch's works in progress - a forged copper and turquoise cuff and a pendant with water cast droplets...
