I would kindly like to thank Jewellery and Blacksmithing department for the opportunity to conduct “Oil Shale course”. Also I would like to thank my students who experienced tough emotional three-month period: I saw them obstinate and passionate,  modest and expressive, sad and happy. And this is great, because we all have changed. 
The story of this course is that Oil Shale Competence Center that is a successful organization concentrating upon the best domain know-how in oil shale mining, expressed an interest to create, with the help of Jewellery Department of Estonian Academy of Arts, jewellery or objects that is possible to use as a gift for their guests.
Down below You can see the pictures from assessment day (17.12.2015) that took place at Estonian Academy of Arts.

Erle Nemvalts / brooches / the oilshale colored with organic pigments

Erle Nemvalts, Nils Hilt

Lotta Koov / rigs / reconstructed oil shale ash

Merlin Meremaa / objects / oilshale, glass, vacuum package 

Tanel Veenre, Ulvi Haagensen, Hannes Tõnuri, Nils Hint, Merlin Meremaa, Piret Hirv

Helina Risti / objects / hand cutted oil shale

Hanna Maria Vanaküla / pendants / shapes are cutted with lathe machine

Eve Margus-Villems, Hanna Maria Vanaküla, Lotta Koov, Sille Luiga, Helina Risti, Andreas Kivisild, Tanel Veenre 

 

Kaur Virkebau / objects / electroformed oilshale

Kana Nakano / object / hand cutted oil shale

Kana Nakano / object/ CNC cutted oilshale

Selected works from courses Serial Jewellery (cond. by Piret Hirv & Eve Margus-Villems) and Breath (cond. by Tanel Veenre):

Merlin Meremaa / steel wool

Helina Risti

Erle Nemvalts

Hanna Maria Vanaküla / charcoal, resin casted in condoms