This class will introduce you to an amazing family of techniques used to make everything from jewelry to engine blocks! Over the course of Saturday and Sunday afternoons we will learn how to take an object and make a negative copy of it (mold making) and then use that negative copy to make a new positive copy of the original object (casting). We will cover a few different types of molds and casting media, and look at examples of many more! The basic principle is to create the shape of an object in an easy-to-manipulate material and transform that shape into an object of a different material. As if that wasn't cool enough, the effort invested into making the mold pays off in letting you easily duplicate the shape many times!
