Greetings!
I hope that 2011 is off to an incredible start and that you are sticking to your New Year's resolutions. Making a commitment to be true to yourself and carving out time to fulfill dreams can be a challenge, which makes the rewards even more sweet. If one of your goals is to take a class, now is the time! Many in the Revere community have registered this year, and we are working hard to keep up with the demand. We have added several new Fabrication 1 classes (see side bar for details). We hope you will join us for a class, and begin to make your dreams a reality.
In this issue of RevereNews you will find success stories from our students, an update about our Masters Symposium, details about Open Session, exciting new elective classes, opportunities, bench tips, and more.
Registration continues for our Winter/Spring Open Session as well as our Masters Symposium. Don't delay; register today! If a class you would like is full, email Glenda, our registrar, and she will be happy to add you to the wait list.
Thank you for being part of the Revere community.
See you in class!
- Christine Dhein
Assistant Director
  
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New Class Teaches
Creative Marketing Savvy
Creative Display, Design & Promotion, March 10-11, 2011
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This is everything you have been looking for in a Marketing class and more! The enhanced format of this two-day class combines the essentials from our Marketing Designer Jewelry class; product, pricing, placement and promotion, with creative and artistic insight into the process of building a body of work, developing an image, preparing a display, and designing merchandising materials. This class offers priceless information for jewelry designers, craftspeople, artists, and entrepreneurs about how to combine theoretical and practical business information with creative and organizational skills in order to successfully present, promote, market, and sell artistic work.
Starting with an overview of product design, students learn how to select a cohesive collection. Your expert instructor will give you essential information about how to display, speak about, and present your work. Learn how to captivate buyers attention and conduct them through a sale. Then learn critical tips for product development, along with the information you need about image, advertising, press releases, competitions, social networking, photography, and more.
16 hours
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Michael David Sturlin is an award-winning designer, goldsmith, and master marketer. His aggressive public relations strategy resulted in Michael's work appearing in many magazines including AJM, JCK, Lapidary Journal, Modern Jeweler and Professional Jeweler. His perspective on pricing strategies and public relations campaigns is widely sought after at many national jewelry industry events. His innovative minimalist jewelry is exhibited at select galleries across North America. Michael will also teach Hand Crochet Chain and Decorative Bezels.
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Spotlight on the Symposium
18k Granulation with Kent Raible, April 11-15 2011 | |
 
18k Granulation with Kent Raible, April 11-15, 2011
Are you inspired by the amazingly intricate and opulent gold work of antiquity? This class will teach you techniques that have been in use for thousands of years, to make this type of work using relatively simple tools.
Granulation is the ancient technique of surface embellishment using tiny spherical granules of gold. Don't miss this rare opportunity to learn from Kent Raible, who has worked with and studied historical precious metalworking techniques for the past 30 years, and is now one of today's modern masters of granulation. Through lectures, demonstrations, and lots of time at the bench, you will experience the step-by-step procedures for this technique. The class will include making a special alloy of 18k gold for granulation, and how to produce, apply, and fuse granules, and finish the work. Students design and create one or more pieces to take home. Students will need to bring at least one half ounce of fine gold. Prerequisite: Fabrication 3 or experience.
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 Kent Raible is a German-trained master goldsmith specializing in 18k gold granulation. Raible's dedication to his craft has earned him international recognition through awards, museum acquisitions, and commissions. His one-of-a-kind Masterworks are included in major collections, such as the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, DC.
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| Student Success Stories |
 Revere student, Chris Nelson, launched a new line called Urban Armour, which he will be exhibiting at the 2011 Rosen Buyers Market of American Craft in Philadelphia and at BMAC. Check out his new designs.
 Revere student, Aaron Gomez, launched a new line of jewelry and a new website, and is currently selling his designs in his family jewelry store in San Luis Obispo. 
JTI Graduate, Dustin Wylie, of Shorline, WA was awarded a SNAG conference student scholarship. He will be attending the 2011 SNAG conference in Seattle, May 26-29, compliments of SNAG.  Revere student, Sondrea Larson, with four other women, opened a new local art boutique, Riverside Studios, in Truckee, CA. The owners make the majority of the work they sell, and they also represent 20 other local artists. We have so many successful students, and are always proud to announce their accomplishments. Be sure to let us know if you win an award, start a new line of jewelry, launch a web site, have work exhibited or featured in magazines, or anything else newsworthy.
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Bench Tip from Alan Revere
A Bright Idea: Removing Acid Residue From Hollow Jewelry Pieces | 
If you've ever worked on a hollow piece of jewelry, you know that if liquid-especially dilute acid-gets trapped inside, it can cause problems later. After soldering a post onto an earring, a jeweler usually puts the piece into a dilute acid solution or "pickle" to dissolve the flux and remove oxidation. Rinsing removes all of the acid easily. But when acid gets trapped inside a hollow form, even if it dries, it will continue to affect the metal, slowly leaking out of the hole and potentially irritating the wearer.
Here's the bright idea to prevent this problem: Shake as much of the pickle solution as possible out of the hollow area and then place the piece on a light bulb. The heat will warm the solution and it will evaporate within minutes.
Once dry, put the piece under warm water and fill up the cavity again, thus diluting any residual acid. Shake out the liquid and dry it on the light bulb. Repeating this process two or three times will ensure that no acid residue remains.
So slow down, check your work right from the start and all along the way, and remember: What is most important is that every piece you make represents your very best effort.
This tip is from Alan Revere's book, 101 Bench Tips, published by MJSA. Illustration is by Sean Kane. Order now!
 Bench Tricks Class with
Alan Revere
April 23-24, 2011
Spend the weekend watching Alan Revere as he demonstrates dozens of short cuts, tricks, tips, gizmos, and gadgets to make jewelry work easier. Learn practical methods for saving time and money including techniques for layout, holding, forming, cutting, soldering, cleaning, finishing, filing, setting, fabrication, repairs, and more. An open discussion between teacher and students (many of whom are also experienced jewelers) always provides new and unusual insights into ways to work better. This is a lecture/demonstration workshop, not hands-on. Register now!
More Bench Tips
Visit our Bench Tips page with clever, time-saving techniques taken from the book,101 Bench Tips for Jewelers by Alan Revere. Also included are 102+ bench tips that have been recently published in his column in "MJSA Journal," and Green Jewelry Tips from Christine Dhein. New entries are added each month, so be sure to check back often.
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The Revere Academy is a professional jewelry school where master craftsmen pass on their skills and knowledge to students at all levels. Beginners and hobbyists as well as experienced working bench jewelers come for dozens of short, intensive classes (just 3-days!) and diploma programs lasting 2-4 months. I hope you will be able to join us for a class soon!
Sincerely,
Christine Dhein
Assistant Director
Revere Academy
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Learn a New Skill
in 2011!
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"Gold has it's value, but learning
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Fabrication 1-E
March 25-27, 2011
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New Dates Added!
March 25-27, 2011
Fabrication 1 is the perfect class for those who have never touched a tool and want to try making jewelry. Or, if you have some experience, but don't feel confident with your skills, Fabrication 1 will give you the skills and confidence you need.
This popular class fills quickly, so we have added new dates. Don't delay. Register today to learn skills you will use for years to come.
Mar 25-27, 2011 - Register
April 28-30, 2011.
Register Now!
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Last Copies of Professional Goldsmithing Found!
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| We have been doing some spring cleaning around the Academy and we came across one last box of Alan's classic book, Professional Goldsmithing.
Professional Goldsmithing has been out of print for years and copies go for big bucks on eBay.
These last few pristine copies are priced at $150 each, personalized for you by the author. Call Glenda at 415-391-4179 to reserve your copy before they are all gone!
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Featured Class
Keum-Boo with Christine Dhein
March 7-8, 2011
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Merch 7-8 - Register Now!
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Revere Goes Organic!
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Women's Long Sleeve Classic T-shirt
100% Organic Cotton $20
| This new women's Revere Wear shirt is the classic T-shirt style, designed just for women.
100% organic cotton shirts are black with white logo.
Made in the USA.
Sizes M, L, XL
Long sleeve: $20
Short sleeve: $15
Order now!
Women's Short Sleeve Classic T-Shirt
100% Organic Cotton $15
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The Right Tool
for the Job
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Otto Frei now carries
Revere pliers.
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Professional
Stone Setting
Preview Copies Available
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We have a few preview copies available of "Professional Stone Setting," a new book in progress by Alan Revere. Based on his long-running series in JCK magazine, this photocopied text-book with close-up black and white photographs covers 21 settings including round and square bezels, prongs, tubes, flush, stars, beads, and box settings, along with information on graver preparation, tools and safety. $49.95 Quantities are limited. Call today to order! 416-391-4179.
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| Opportunities | Free Issue of Adornment Magazine
Introducing a special offer for those interested in becoming members of the Association for the Study of Jewlery & Related Arts (ASJRA). Receive a temporary membership, an issue of their online newsletter, and a free issue of Adornment Magazine in PDF form, so you can sample what membership normally provides.
Membership Rate: $85/yr
Magazine Only: $50/yr
Deadline: Feb 28, 2008
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Call for Entries
Jewelry + Objects 2011
Juried by Marilyn da Silva, this competitive exhibition promotes excellence in the field of metalsmithing, and is sponsored by the Michigan Silversmiths Guild (MSG) In Collaboration with the Alden B. Dow Museum of Science and Art of the Midland Center for the Arts (MCFTA). Deadline: March 1, 2011 Awards: $1,000 More details
Call for Entries
Lark Books Curating Second 500 Rings Book
This encore installment will be a 420 page, full color survey of contemporary rings created after 2000, juried by Bruce Metcalf.
Deadline: March 30, 2011
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Women's Jewelry Association's Student Scholarship Scholarships will be awarded in three categories; Designer/Creator, based on finished pieces, Designer, based on designs, and Non-Designer, based on an essay for those studying to be a bench jeweler or retailer. Awards: $20,000 in 2010 Deadline: April 15, 2011 Application More details | |
Halstead Bead 2011 Business Development Grant
Candidates must be US citizens who began their businesses after Jan. 1, 2008. Their design companies must focus on "bridge jewelry," also known as "craft jewelry" or "art jewelry," which is the segment between costume jewelry and fine jewelry.
Deadline: June 6, 2011
Award: $6,000 value
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Fountainhead Fellowship
An opportunity offered byVCUarts Department of Craft and Material Studies. The Fellowship provides a $15,000 stipend, free studio, and free living space. Fellowship Dates:
Aug 2011-May, 2012
Deadline: Feb 15, 2011
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MAG Lecture
by Laura Kalman
The Metal Arts Guild San Francisco will host
a lecture by Lauren Kalman, an innovative contemporary artist working within the field of metals and jewelry. Free to MAG members and Revere students. Call to reserve your space. 415-391-4179. Location: Revere Academy Date: March 31, 2011 7 pm 2011 SNAG Conference
Next year's conference will be held in Seattle, May 26-29, 2011.
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