Don Metke


Sculpture, Jewelry, Photography Two and Three Dimensional Foundry Fabrication,
Lost Wax Casting and Digital Imagery

Wood shop supervisor, General contractor, Furniture and Fine woodworker.
(specialized in custom door construction)

Wooden boat design and construction.  Woods, fiberglass, epoxies,

Polymers, Plastic fabrication. Clay, Plaster mold making, Latex, rubber and silicon's.
Sheet metal, concrete, cold molding and West System construction methods.

Limited background in but have attended workshops in welding, arc,
gas/acetylene, argon and TIG,

Media technician-film editor, 16 mm film and video.

Printmaking background in silk screening, dry point etching and photo etch,
screening and alternative photographic methods : gum bichromate, bleach etch:
mordancage. cyanotypes, silver mirror, vandyke and  reticulated printing methods.


Other interests, and or related workshop and art  activities:

Conducted workshops in the construction of pinhole cameras.
Private tutoring in zone system study using large format
Fine woodworking projects- custom woodworking fireplace backdrops,
mantles, interior doors, desks, furniture.
Apprentice electrician last 6 years.
Motorcycle custom fabrication-sheet metal, fiberglass & wheel assembly
Photo Projects - studio art, still life’s and abstract form.
-outdoor color studies, documentation's and real estate production.
-digital and traditional film


Box Making: fragrance boxes of yellow cedar. silk-screened.

Sculpture Projects: sculptures in wood, stone and fabricated metals
and found objects, concrete, non-ferrous metals.

Film Projects :WMRA  Washington State Motorcycle Racing Asso. Promotional Film