Jewelry and Symbology with Hanna-Katarina — May 3 - 4

Dates: May 3, 2025 → May 4, 2025
Times: Sat - Sun 12-5
Level: All Levels

Workshop Description:
In this 8 hour workshop you will create your own design from start to finish rooted in symbology. We will explore symbology, discuss and investigate creative design elements and utilise basic traditional metalsmithing techniques in order to create your own unique piece of symbolic jewelry.

Before the start of the session students will be asked to investigate and explore ancient symbology to ultimately arrive at our unique symbols to utilize in our designs Utilizing the ARAS ( archive for archetypal symbology) We will do a investigation of symbolism (Once enrolled in the course a email with resources and examples will be sent) With your proposals we will then explore and discuss the design elements together, to create either a pendant, bracelet or a pair of earrings. This class is intended for those with little or no experience in metal work. Students will get extensive hands-on experience in the basics of metal work. Basic jewelry practices will be taught including cutting, sawing, filing, soldering, polishing, etc. All necessary tools will be provided by the instructor.

Reflect and Design with Intention. Explore creative design elements Learn traditional techniques Leave with your own design created by you

Objectives Investigate and design with intention. Explore creative design elements. Learn traditional metal-smithing techniques. Create a unique piece of symbolic jewelry.

About the Instructor:
Hanna-Katarina California, United States

Hanna-Katarina creates one of a kind jewelry, ritual adornments and performance pieces. She works in collaboration creating experimental videos, photography, creative direction and performance in order to tell stories through the body.

Hanna practices ancient and experimental metalsmithing techniques, in addition to working with a variety of materials, found objects and traditional craft processes. Hanna creates adornments for performance and ritual, recontextualized in the landscape of modern life. Her work draws on mythology, mysticism, dreamscapes, archetypal symbology, magic, memories, the subconscious and perspectives of reality. Honoring storytelling traditions of the past while writing a new narrative out of time. Adornments meant to act as deities for the body, enabling the wearer to invoke the sacred through their own embodiment. 

She is a believer and investigator in the transformative power of disguise, movement and of talismanic objects.Hanna is consistently exploring the links between the meditation of the intimate craft process and expression of the body through performance. She is interested in the balance of intimacy between maker, wearer and witness. 

Hanna-Katarina was born by the Sea and grew up in the mountains of Northern California. She currently resides and works in her studio in Mexico. She studied metallurgy in New York and Florence, Italy. She has exhibited her work in New York,California, Europe, and Mexico.

Her work is currently on exhibition at Carlo Lucidi Gallery in Rome, Mendocino Art Center in California, Costaiia Showroom in Mexico City, Salon 1168 in Guadalajara and Lagoon in NYC

Artist statement

“I I enjoy playing with the balance of light and  dark and the parallels of fantasy and reality. I am fascinated with investigating light, reflection and movement as a language of storytelling. I make objects and tell stories because of my desire to interpret indescribable things."

Instagram: @hannakatarinaalexandra Website: hanna-katarina.com

Required Materials: $45 Materials Fee, (applied) includes Brass. Silver between $60-$85 depending on design and size.

- Closed toed shoes Materials fee covers all that the students will need