Metal Garden Sculpture

Description

his two-session experience will expose you to the basics of welding and teach important shop safety principles that will enable to you design and create a piece of artwork for your landscape or garden. You will create an instructor-led project during the first session and get ideas for a personal project that you will make during the second session. The instructor will provide examples of decorative metal sculpture pieces created from everyday steel “junk,” like old wrenches, ratchets, shovels, and sawblades.

During the first session some time will be spent looking through College-provided scrap metal, discussing design possibilities, and thinking about additional scrap or items that you will need to bring to the second session of class.

The second session will provide opportunity for students to receive assistance in creating a unique piece of metal sculpture. Fee includes safety glasses and use of personal protective equipment.
Minimum clothing requirements:

• Long pants (no shorts allowed), blue jeans or other cotton, durable fabric slacks are preferred.
• Long sleeve cotton shirts are preferred. Please do not wear flannel, polyester, or nylon-type clothing.
• Closed-toed, leather shoes (no pumps, no rubber gardening boots).
• Long hair must be pulled back.
• Safety glasses, welding hood, welding gloves, and welding jacket will be provided.

Interested in creating artwork out of metal? Have you been thinking about taking the two-session Metal Garden Sculpture class, but just aren’t certain if welding is for you?