{"id":1417,"date":"2012-02-02T17:43:04","date_gmt":"2012-02-03T00:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/michaelsturlinstudio\/?page_id=1417"},"modified":"2023-01-23T15:12:43","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T22:12:43","slug":"in-depth-retreats","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/michaelsturlinstudio\/in-depth-retreats\/","title":{"rendered":"In Depth Retreats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">The<\/span><em><span style=\"color: #000080\"><strong> In-Depth Retreats <\/strong><\/span><\/em><span style=\"color: #000000\">are intensive guided workshops\u00a0at my private studio in Scottsdale\u00a0Arizona. Scheduled January through April, these annual retreats are a unique opportunity for personal and artistic development\u00a0through an intimate\u00a0group\u00a0experience in a creative professional\u00a0environment.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The retreat includes gourmet lunch and dinner prepared daily on premises by a classically trained culinary professional, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thaigourmethouse.com\/about_praparat.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Praparat Sturlin<\/a>\u00a0of Thai Gourmet House Cooking School.\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000\">Seating is limited to four participants per retreat.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/michaelsturlinstudio\/files\/2012\/02\/2023-studio-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3196\" src=\"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/michaelsturlinstudio\/files\/2012\/02\/2023-studio-2-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"2023 studio 2\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/michaelsturlinstudio\/files\/2012\/02\/2023-studio-2-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/michaelsturlinstudio\/files\/2012\/02\/2023-studio-2-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/michaelsturlinstudio\/files\/2012\/02\/2023-studio-2-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/michaelsturlinstudio\/files\/2012\/02\/2023-studio-2-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/michaelsturlinstudio\/files\/2012\/02\/2023-studio-2-144x144.jpg 144w, http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/michaelsturlinstudio\/files\/2012\/02\/2023-studio-2.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">The 2024 Retreats at Michael Sturlin Studio are\u00a0Scheduled!\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/strong><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><em>The five day retreat fee for 2024 is $2500.\u00a0<\/em><strong><em>There are just a few openings for new students in 2024.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Session #1 &#8211; January 15-19, 2024<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #008000\"><strong>(3 benches open)<\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Session #2 &#8211; January\u00a029 &#8211; February 2, 2024<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #993300\">(filled)<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Session #3 &#8211; February 12-16, 2024<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #993300\">(filled)<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Session #4 &#8211; February 26 &#8211; March 1, 2024<\/span>\u00a0<strong><span style=\"color: #993300\">(filled)<\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Session #5 &#8211; April 1-6, 2024<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #993300\">(filled)<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Session #6 &#8211; April 15-19, 2024<\/span>\u00a0<strong><span style=\"color: #993300\">(filled)<\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong><a style=\"color: #800000\" href=\"mailto:michaelsturlinstudio@gmail.com?subject=Retreat%20Information\">CLICK HERE<\/a> <em><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">to email Michael for more information or to request an application questionnaire for the 2024\u00a0sessions.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The\u00a0In Depth Retreat experience focuses on\u00a0continuing skill development\u00a0for\u00a0 goldsmiths,\u00a0 jewelry makers, and jewelry designers.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em> This creative session is a self guided laboratory for individual exploration and refinement of design, technique and aesthetic development.\u00a0I serve as technical adviser, team leader, personal coach, guide and mentor.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Students have an opportunity to work in 18 karat gold under their own direction with my technical supervision and my insight and advice on their individual projects and design concepts. Emphasis is placed on the traditional professional approach to our craft; alloying metals, melting and amalgamating gold, pouring ingots, forming sheet, wire, and tube, and focusing on hand fabrication and construction with noble metals. This is an opportunity to develop confidence, proper technique and\u00a0 material fluency under the watchful eye of <\/em><em>a master goldsmith.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Alongside applied techniques\u00a0of goldsmithing I teach a process of design origination and refinement\u00a0intended to create jewelry with strong cohesive content, which accelerates artistic maturity. I help each participant identify the underlying characteristics and essence of new work they want to explore or existing work they want to take further. I show how to assess design and ideas with objectivity that enables focusing in on the strongest characteristic and developing the most promising features in a logical and efficient way.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>As each participant develops their design portfolio I offer\u00a0guidance on the various tool and technique options to create their body of work. My goal is for retreat participants to\u00a0depart my studio with well-developed original design concepts accompanied by solid plans for executable series of jewelry. This planning and preparation includes evaluating the time and resources it will take to create the work, assuring the momentum of the experience here can carry forward on a solid foundation.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Demos of applied technique during each retreat vary depending upon the individual interests of the participants and the collective dynamic of the group.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Studio Equipment<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em>The studio is furnished with jewelry benches, flex shafts, propane\/oxygen Meco torches, acetylene atmospheric torch, melting crucibles, ingot molds, rolling mill, draw bench, draw plates, engraving balls, forming blocks, bezel blocks, bezel and bracelet mandrels, pitch bowls, chasing tools, sand bags, silversmithing stakes and forming hammers.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Students provide their own small hand tools and materials.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;text-align: left\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The In-Depth Retreats are intensive guided workshops\u00a0at my private studio in Scottsdale\u00a0Arizona. 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