Trips to Orvieto, Italy with Adventures in Italy

Souls in Flight

Dates: October 4 - 10, 2009
Instructor/Leader: Ruth Rae

Trip Description
In this class, your door to jewelry creativity will open as you learn the foundations of metal smithing: sawing, riveting and forging. These techniques will be covered as we create a hand forged chain link, twisted jump rings, a multi faceted curio centerpiece. As your skills in sawing, riveting and forging will be cultivated, trinkets collected on our trip can also be added to this completed project.

We will then venture into creating a mixed media hand sewn “journal”, which becomes not only a reflection of your travels but a safe haven for your piece. combinations of papers and fibers will be altered and then combined with the use of hand stitching along with embroidery techniques.

Itinerary
Oct 4 - Arrive Orvieto, group dinner
Oct 5 - The doors of creativity open as we begin our exploration into the process of creating. While discussing our journey we will arrive at our themes. We will begin sawing, forging, riveting and exploring the many attributes of resin.
Intro to Italian culture and wine tasting
Oct 6 - Continue work on the focal point of your creation while covering the basics of link forging. Our journey together continues as we forge, saw and create.
Cooking class and dinner with wine.
Oct 7 - Discuss our reflection journals and the way in which we will approach its creation. Foundations of our journals will come to fruition.
Shopping for & picnic lunch. Afternoon free, Etruscan cave tour
Oct 8 - Market Day explorations, complete our reflection journals taking inspiration from the Etruscan caves, open studio time to continue working on our pieces and journals.
Vineyard tour and wine tasting
Oct 9 - Open studio, continue work on our pieces and journals.
Group lunch - pizza! followed by, open studio. We will have a bit of show and share time for those who might be leaving us early.
Oct 10 - Wrap up – Reflections of our journey together.
Depart Orvieto

Details
Cost - $2375. Fee includes six nights double occupancy lodging and basic course materials. Single occupancy available for an additional cost. Because the tour is meant to expose you to the local culture, meals are not prearranged or included. Travel costs are not included.

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A trip for companions is available for $1875.

Meet Ruth Rae
Ruth Rae is a classically trained jeweler and instructor. During Ruth’s tenure as a metal smith she began to experiment with other forms of media and techniques. As time has progressed Ruth’s true passion has become “mixed media fiber art.” Ruth’s pieces are internationally recognized for their unexpected yet elegant combinations of altered fabrics, vintage lace and antique papers that find themselves intertwined with transparencies, found objects and words that are bound together by hand and machine stitching. Ruth enjoys sharing her creative process in her contributions to Cloth Paper Scissors, Belle Armoire Jewelry, Somerset Studio and Artful Blogging. Ruth is currently working on her next book about mixed media fabric art that will be released in 2009.

Ruth can be seen on Quilting Arts TV (show # 204), with two Quilting Arts Workshop DVD’s available from Interweave Press. Ruth has most recently co-authored a unique book, “A Charming Exchange”, that not only includes techniques with bounds of inspiration for creating mixed-media jewelry inspired from charms from an array of 25 artists, but also walks the readers through step-by-step jewelry techniques. You can view her work online at: www.ruthrae.com
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ruthrae
http://ruthrae.blogspot.com/