Tidepool Bracelet with Linda Ames

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Pendant Set with David Farris

Create a unique textured copper pendant and/or earrings to impress your friends and family with jewelry designer David Farris. In this 2 hour class you will learn a variety of different techniques including cold connection, stamping, texturing, finishing, metal forming and stamping. No experience necessary, alternate materials will be offered at an additional cost.

Bio
David Farris is a jewelry designer, metalsmith, and G.I.A. certified gemologist living in Orange County, CA. His jewelry designs feature a wide range of materials ranging from sterling silver and semi-precious gemstones to platinum and diamonds and often showcase unusual textures and markings combined with rich surface patinas. In all of his work, he believes that the design and composition of the piece is every bit as important as materials used. David considers his jewelry creations to be wearable pieces of art and believes that his formal fine art and design education from California State University, Long Beach gives him a unique approach to jewelry design.

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Water Casting with Erin Elowe

Bio
Erin Elowe is a native southern Californian artist specializing in wearable metal sculpture with a retro-futuristic feel.  She graduated from California State University Long Beach in 2009 with a BFA in Metalsmithing and Jewelry Design and has since started her own studio practice where she continues to explore the art of metal sculpture and jewelry making. Her studies and interest in such things as aviation, classic automobiles, cosmology, quantum physics and mid-century aesthetics are whimsically represented in her work.

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Jewelry Making with Lorraine Hornby

Twist & Turn: Silver Wire Sculpture Earrings

Let your imagination run wild to create a unique pair of silver earrings! Using a few simple hand tools, students will learn how to transform a length of silver into a work of art. Students will begin with a design set in copper before completing the sculptural silver earrings. Class also offers the option to add pearls and gems for extra dazzle.

Riveted Pendant - an exploration of texture and shape in metal.

Learn easy techniques to texture your metal and how to use a jeweler's saw to create shapes from sheet metal. Design a layered pendant with an elegant bail. All cold-connected by a hand-formed rivet.

Bio

I love the process of designing a new piece: thinking about color, balance, texture, and form. I spend many hours searching gem shows to find distinctive stones to include in my work. Each piece that I make is the culmination not only of this searching, but of time spent imagining many variations leading to the final design, and of the actual creation of the work.

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Chain Making with Annette Doreng-Stearns

In this class you will learn how to design, file, forge, how to create jump rings and assembly a chain with maximum movement. Students will leave with a handmade copper necklace, and if time permits, a matching pair of earrings.

Bio

Annette was trained as an architect at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in her homeland of Denmark. As an artist she has her hand in many different mediums. She paints Theater sets as well as paintings, is an art quilter, a jewelry maker and a sculptor. She also taught handwork at the Santa Fe Waldorf School to both students and adults.

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Fused Glass Pendant with Cindy Stalnaker

Create an eye-catching sparkling dichroic glass pendant with Sawdust Artist Cindy Stalnaker.  Learn the basics of glass-fusing and dichroic glass.  You will have the opportunity to choose your glass colors, while learning cutting and layering techniques for fused glass.  No experience necessary.  Note that due to kiln-firing times, your pendant will be mailed to you the week after the class.  If you need magnification glasses for close-up work, please remember to bring them.   

Bio

Cindy returned to her artistic roots in 2002, after a 22-year advertising career.  She studied Fine Arts at the Silvermine College of Art in New Canaan, CT; and Metalsmithing at Saddleback College, Mission Viejo, CA. She embarked on her “glass odyssey” by undertaking a comprehensive series of instruction throughout California; Murano, Italy; and Stockholm, Sweden.  Her current body of work includes fused and slumped glass, copper enameling, and lampwork glass beads. In 2009, she appeared on HGTV’s That’s Clever crafting program, demonstrating her techniques for a decorative fused glass platter and dichroic glass drawer pulls. A Laguna Beach resident, Cindy exhibits at both the summer Sawdust Art Festival, as well as the Sawdust’s Winter Fantasy, and she is currently a member of the show’s Board of Directors.

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