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CLASSES AVAILABLE: Instructors: Beginning Silversmithing Advanced Silversmithing Fold Forming Torch Setup & Safety Lost Wax Casting TubeSetting & Bezels Instructor: Joan Bazzel: Instructor: Q Evon: Additional Workshops Available You may call 828-678-9038 to sign up, or send a message from our contact page |
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“ William (Bill) Churlik Bill started learning Lapidary, Silversmithing and Woodworking from his Grandfather in the early 60’s. Bill’s interest in music led him into learning to restore antique organs and music boxes while still in high school. After high school he entered the US Navy and was trained as Diesel Engine Repairman. He left the Navy as a Second Class Petty Officer with a Purple Heart award (Viet Nam). He then went on to Newberry College, earning a degree in Religion and Philosophy (‘76).
Bill moved to Asheville in 1996 where he had an opportunity to work as a glassblower for several years. During this time Bill also taught evening classes in silversmithing at Haywood Community College. He opened Earthspeak Arts, the school for jewelry and silversmithing, in 2003. Earthspeak Arts draws students from across the southeast. Bill continues to teach classes and workshops at his studio in Asheville at 375 Depot St. There he also does reproduction bronze castings and metal object repair for Biltmore House and other regional clients. Bill has had the privilege to spend 8 years as a volunteer steam engineer and machinist at the Denton Farm Park, Denton, NC, home of the “Southeast Old Thresher’ Reunion”. There he helped restore and run antique steam engines and steam powered machinery. Bill brings to his work and teaching his love for “old school” craftsmanship and attention to detail. Every project or class brings new opportunities to learn or teach new techniques and most importantly, new people to meet. I truly enjoy the creative process. It is the language of the spirit. Much of my work is inspired by my sense of connection to “nature”… things that I see that please me, remind me of the connectedness of all things, or sometimes simply amuse me. I find a sense of spirituality working itself out through the creative process as I bring ideas into being. All of creation is one great dance, the dance of life. I have come to see that part of the artist’s role as helping that dance make sense.”
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After college Bill supervised a work therapy program for recovering alcoholics. He left that program to open and run his own furniture restoration and millwork business in Newberry, SC for the next 12 years. In 1992 the business was closed and he moved to Augusta, GA to be a partner in a jewelry store and gallery for the next 4 years. |
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