善良的心

Design with your heart and your mind. Visualize the jewelry you want before drawing any design. This is just some of the wisdom offered by goldsmith Mary Ann Scherr at a summer metal jewelry-making course at the Crafts Center.

八个学生的课程帽，等候名单漫长的名单 - 以及充分理由。

Scherr, 91, is a legend in the design world. Her client list includes the late Duke of Windsor, Liz Claiborne and Chelsea Clinton. Her jewelry and art works are in the permanent collections of major museums, including the Vatican Museum of Art in Rome, the Museum of Art and Design and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

“她很棒，”彩绘玻璃的学生和讲师，Deborah Rodgers说。“我可以从她那里学习这么多。”

当我最近坐在她的两个课程中，这正是我所开放的事情。

What Students Learn

The goal of the eight-week course is for students to design their own jewelry, starting with a cuff bracelet. Scherr promises to make this ambitious feat possible. “Only you can teach you how to design. I can teach you tricks,” she says.

It’s my first day and initially I feel daunted. Who wants to make a lousy design around Mary Ann Scherr? But as the class progresses confidence grows and all the students create a bracelet.

Scherr指导我们通过练习技巧和舒缓词语的过程。首先，她建议我们将块首字母中的首字母写在追踪纸上。然后她让我们在我们最喜欢的局部绘制一个盒子。

Next, we prepare the metal. Our choices are either nickel, bronze or new gold. We transfer the design and engrave the lines and forms with a dental tool. Scherr designed this speedy process and technique. “Normally, designing a bracelet takes weeks,” she says.

下周我们访问Scherr的Raleigh Home Studio。这就是我们在冒充硝酸的浴池中的设计，并探索她的工作和记忆。

Scherr's Walls在20世纪60年代的皇室，设计师和Slinky TV广播公司旁边有奖项和她的照片。她的珠宝也在展出。它是优雅和令人难忘的，包含白金，鲍鱼壳和日本Netsuke面具。

设计手镯感觉很棒 - 它即时满足。一名学生说她是为她的未婚夫设计一个戒指。

一个改进的工艺中心

珠宝课程是汤普森大厅的工艺中心提供的几个，在2007年至2009年之间进行了广泛的装修。乔治·托马斯总监从钩针，茶壶制作和棋盘制作自行车维修的课程系列。“人们来到这里把他们的想法从事脱离，”他说。“我们很自豪能够为我们的社区提供这一点。”

Scherr多年来一直在教授珠宝阶级，并说最好的是学生。“我喜欢看到学生对金属的兴趣和设计他们自己创造的东西，”她说。