PB Cohen Creations

The Ann Arbor Art Center's jewelry studio is now up and running at the Liberty Street building. It was a little dicey for awhile there. The room was used for a summer kid's camp, and then some of the other upstairs rooms were used for a wedding, so the jewelry studio was, well, pretty much a mess. Here's the room, before (on the left) and after the big push to get everything ready that last week. Click on the photos for bigger versions.

We brought the soldering table from the old facility, and realized that the floor in the old building had been on a slight slope, and the legs had been trimmed accordingly. Rather than simply add an inch to the left legs and half an inch to the center to make it all level, we decided to raise the whole surface by a few inches. And so the jewelers-who-stand-to-solder won!

Overall, the space is smaller, but the move has forced us to be more efficient. Theoretically. We still need better lights for night classes, a second sink, and replacements for a few things that got lost in the move, but apart from having to pay for parking now, I think it'll work out pretty well.

There's a lot that goes on in the Art Center building that we didn't know about before, being on the other side of town and all. For example, there's a lot of wine hanging around for all the parties — like the 18th Annual Sommelier Dinner. There are a lot more people wandering around the building, like parents looking for pots their kids made at camp. And there are art classes going on all the time.

This picture is looking out the door of the jewelry studio. You can see into one of the classrooms. See the guy in the orange (click on the picture for a big version)? He's drawing a nude model.

Interesting.