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Our website is currently being updated. So bear with me while I try to do some long overdue changes! Thanks! - Missy howard |
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Welcome To The Howard Academy |
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The Howard Academy of Wisconsin offers career training for jewelers and metalsmiths with a curriculum that focuses on proficiency and craftsmanship using a low tech and low cost approach. We want our graduates of our jewelry school to keep quality and profits up by keeping time, labor and material costs down. Professional training in the metal arts includes:
- Practical gemology
- Diamond and gem setting
- Goldsmithing, welding and forging
- Casting and mold making
- Hand engraving and die carving
- Tool making, jig forming
- Drawing, sketching and layout
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- Sculpture and art foundry work
- Troubleshooting for repair
- Custom work
- Advanced creative techniques
- Observation of working shop and store
- Gold work and production experience
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William L. Howard
Master Goldsmith
P.O. Box 472
Stoughton, WI 53589
1-800-843-9603
FAX 608-873-0960 |
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We have been keeping a secret from anyone not actually here at the Academy. We have a talented silversmith/goldsmith named Glenn Prescott as an instructor here now and we are quite proud of his talents. In addition to Glenn, Bill's daughter Missy Howard has been on staff also - this time as a full-time addition. We have been lucky enough to have her interrupt her nomadic lifestyle to occasional do some additional instruction here and there. This time we made her commit! Look for their biographys or artist statements (or whatever I can finagle out of them) and some images of their work on the website. |
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This years Midwest Jeweler's Tradeshow design competition was yet another success for the Howard Academy! The student winners are as follows:
Paula Beale:
Best Of Show
-Sterling silver and mokume gane anticlastically raised bracelet
Richard Weigel:
1st place earrings
-Mokume gane and sterling earrings
1st place bracelets
-Copper and sterling bracelet
John Evans:
1st place hand made chain
-Sterling silver chain
1st place objects of art
-Sterling silver vase/sconce
Howard Academy Graduate winner in the professional category:
Mona Semerau:
1st place earrings
-Sterling silver monkey earrings
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Article Published in BABA Magazine |
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The Summer 2007 issue of Artist Blacksmith Magazine (a beautiful trade magazine published by the British Artist Blacksmiths Association) features an article which was written by Bill Howard and has been prominent on our website for a long time. We keep the article of tips posted on the website for anyone interested in metalsmithing and truly appreciate BABA’s recognition of its value! For some incredible images of contemporary blacksmithing or to sign up for a subscription, go to www.baba.org.uk |
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