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Workshop PhotoSpruced Up Fine Silver Pendant

Instructor: Art Clay Senior Instructor Cat Burton
Cat Burton is a certified Art Clay Senior Instructor and PMC Level 2 Instructor and has been teaching since March 2012. She is proficient working with silver and copper clay and teaches many levels of metal clay classes, including Art Clay certifications at her home studio, located in Prescott... Read More

Currently not available.
Skill Level: All
Dates/Times: April 13, from 9:00am to 1:00pm
Fees: $110 » includes kit

Learn how, with a few simple tools, you can create this pendant that looks like it could’ve been molded from nature. Learn how to roll out your clay, cut a simple shape, and “draw” a design that even a person who insists they have no artistic ability can do with a few simple strokes. Add a few CZs to “spruce... Read More

Workshop PhotoEarrings of Elegance, Fine Silver

Instructor: Art Clay Senior Instructor Brenna Jimenez
Brenna Jimenez is a certified Art Clay Senior Instructor, who has been working with Art Clay Silver for over 5 years. She has always loved creating and designing her own jewelry using wire-wrapping, and various forms of beading. Her creative and design talent really bloomed when she discovered her... Read More

Currently not available.
Skill Level: All
Dates/Times: April 13, from 9:00am to 1:00pm
Fees: $110 » includes kit

Taking this class will be a fun filled and informative class in which you will make not just one, but two beautiful pairs of earrings. This class is perfect for the beginner to start learning the basics of metal clay, while a more experienced person can skill up with some of the techniques that will be taught. Techniques learned will... Read More

Workshop PhotoMini-Intro Make & Take Class

Instructor: Art Clay Senior Instructors
Instructors teaching this mini Intro class are all certified Art Clay Senior Instructors. They all have been working with Art Clay Silver for several years. Now they want to share that knowledge with you in this Mini-Intro Make & Take Class. Read More

Currently not available.
Skill Level: All
Dates/Times: April 13, from 10:00am to 11:00am
Fees: $20 » includes materials

This is a fun and easy way to get your feet wet working with metal clay. Learn the very basics of working and firing Art Clay Silver and creating your very first Art Clay fine silver (.999) metal clay jewelry. Read More

Workshop PhotoMini-Intro Make & Take Class

Instructor: Art Clay Senior Instructors
Instructors teaching this mini Intro class are all certified Art Clay Senior Instructors. They all have been working with Art Clay Silver for several years. Now they want to share that knowledge with you in this Mini-Intro Make & Take Class. Read More

Currently not available.
Skill Level: All
Dates/Times: April 13, from 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Fees: $20 » includes materials

This is a fun and easy way to get your feet wet working with metal clay. Learn the very basics of working and firing Art Clay Silver and creating your very first Art Clay fine silver (.999) metal clay jewelry. Read More

Workshop PhotoBeginning Soldering

Instructor: Carole Witt
Graduate of the Revere Academy of Jewelry Arts, Carole has been teaching for over 15 years. Carole and her remarkable staff have a lineup of more than 50 classes in their extensive Jewelry Supply Store, String Bead, in Chico California. They are always striving to increase their ability to reach... Read More

Currently not available.
Skill Level: All
Dates/Times: April 13, from 1:00pm to 5:00pm
Fees: $79 » all supplies including, instructional handout are provided.

This is an in-depth class that will equip you for using soldering torches. Once you understand the soldering process, good torch control, and the proper steps, soldering is a lot of fun. This introductory class focuses on getting you started on the right path, so you can confidently work and troubleshoot on your own. The earrings and... Read More

Workshop PhotoMini-Intro Make & Take Class

Instructor: Art Clay Senior Instructors
Instructors teaching this mini Intro class are all certified Art Clay Senior Instructors. They all have been working with Art Clay Silver for several years. Now they want to share that knowledge with you in this Mini-Intro Make & Take Class. Read More

Currently not available.
Skill Level: All
Dates/Times: April 13, from 2:00pm to 3:00pm
Fees: $20 » includes materials

This is a fun and easy way to get your feet wet working with metal clay. Learn the very basics of working and firing Art Clay Silver and creating your very first Art Clay fine silver (.999) metal clay jewelry. Read More

Workshop PhotoLazy Pearl Spiral

Instructor: Lillian Todaro
Award-winning artist and author Lillian Todaro Read More

Currently not available.
Skill Level: All
Dates/Times: April 13, from 2:00pm to 5:00pm
Fees:
$50 » class fee
$39 » kit fee

Award-winning artist and author Lillian Todaro will teach you an easy, versatile stitch that weaves up fast. Learn to use pearls and a crystal to create an elegant bracelet that you will cherish. Once you learn this stitch, you can use any kind of beads and make an infinite number of very beautiful things, including: bracelets, necklaces,... Read More

Workshop PhotoBranching Out Fine Silver Pendant

Instructor: Art Clay Senior Instructor Brenna Jimenez
Brenna Jimenez is a certified Art Clay Senior Instructor, who has been working with Art Clay Silver for over 5 years. She has always loved creating and designing her own jewelry using wire-wrapping, and various forms of beading. Her creative and design talent really bloomed when she discovered her... Read More

Currently not available.
Skill Level: Intermediate
Dates/Times: April 13, from 2:30pm to 6:30pm
Fees: $110 » includes kit

With this beautiful branch pendant, you can flaunt your love of nature and have some fun making it your own. In this class you will learn how to shape, roll, and texture the metal clay to make it look like a branch and then embed jump-rings. You will then learn how to make a detailed dragon fly using a mold and create a bezel stone... Read More

Workshop PhotoShielded Fine Silver Pendant

Instructor: Art Clay Senior Instructor Inez Flaugh
Inez Flaugh has always loved creating beautiful things with her hands and has dabbled in just about every media out there. Her love of glass and making jewelry is what started Inez down the path in Metal Clay. She took an Introduction to Metal Clay class in 2012 and her head exploded with ideas of... Read More

Currently not available.
Skill Level: All
Dates/Times: April 13, from 2:30pm to 6:30pm
Fees: $100 » includes kit

The shield; protection of life, knowledge and honor. That is what this pendant represents. In this class the following techniques will be used to create this beautiful pendant; using a mold, creating a bezel setting, creating the elements, controlled syringe use and how to balance the pieces to hang properly. This is a beginner’s +... Read More

Workshop PhotoTube Setting - Soldering

Instructor: Carole Witt
Graduate of the Revere Academy of Jewelry Arts, Carole has been teaching for over 15 years. Carole and her remarkable staff have a lineup of more than 50 classes in their extensive Jewelry Supply Store, String Bead, in Chico California. They are always striving to increase their ability to reach... Read More

Currently not available.
Skill Level: Intermediate. Torch Soldering skills necessary
Dates/Times: April 13, from 6:00pm to 9:00pm
Fees: $79 » all supplies including, instructional handout are provided.

Knowing how to use your torch is just the beginning! Learning proper setup, fit, how to control your solder flow, why joints break sometimes, what metals do what in the flame, and how to troubleshoot all of the above is the focus of this class while giving you loads of time at the torch. Working with different gauges, shapes and wire... Read More

Workshop PhotoWrapped Around You Leather and Fine Silver Bracelet

Instructor: Art Clay Senior Instructor Brenna Jimenez
Brenna Jimenez is a certified Art Clay Senior Instructor, who has been working with Art Clay Silver for over 5 years. She has always loved creating and designing her own jewelry using wire-wrapping, and various forms of beading. Her creative and design talent really bloomed when she discovered her... Read More

Currently not available.
Skill Level: All
Dates/Times: April 14, from 9:00am to 1:00pm
Fees: $100 » includes kit

This is a great class to learn the basics of combining your Fine Silver Pieces with leather to create this awesome and delicate looking bracelet. Learn to make the beautiful focal piece you will create in class to fit the curvature of your wrist, then incorporate it onto a leather braid and attach a robust clasp. This is a great class to... Read More

Workshop PhotoRing Around the Roses Fine Silver Ring

Instructor: Art Clay Senior Instructor Inez Flaugh
Inez Flaugh has always loved creating beautiful things with her hands and has dabbled in just about every media out there. Her love of glass and making jewelry is what started Inez down the path in Metal Clay. She took an Introduction to Metal Clay class in 2012 and her head exploded with ideas of... Read More

Currently not available.
Skill Level: All
Dates/Times: April 14, from 9:00am to 1:00pm
Fees: $100 » includes kit

Flowers, gemstones and rings, oh my. What girl doesn’t like or love them? Well now you can have it all in this flowering ring! There are so many skills you can learn in this ring class including, but not limited to making a seamless textured ring band that will fit every time, use molds to create the beautiful ring focal and then... Read More

Workshop PhotoMini-Intro Make & Take Class

Instructor: Art Clay Senior Instructors
Instructors teaching this mini Intro class are all certified Art Clay Senior Instructors. They all have been working with Art Clay Silver for several years. Now they want to share that knowledge with you in this Mini-Intro Make & Take Class. Read More

Currently not available.
Skill Level: All
Dates/Times: April 14, from 10:00am to 11:00am
Fees: $20 » includes materials

This is a fun and easy way to get your feet wet working with metal clay. Learn the very basics of working and firing Art Clay Silver and creating your very first Art Clay fine silver (.999) metal clay jewelry. Read More

Workshop PhotoMini-Intro Make & Take Class

Instructor: Art Clay Senior Instructors
Instructors teaching this mini Intro class are all certified Art Clay Senior Instructors. They all have been working with Art Clay Silver for several years. Now they want to share that knowledge with you in this Mini-Intro Make & Take Class. Read More

Currently not available.
Skill Level: All
Dates/Times: April 14, from 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Fees: $20 » includes materials

This is a fun and easy way to get your feet wet working with metal clay. Learn the very basics of working and firing Art Clay Silver and creating your very first Art Clay fine silver (.999) metal clay jewelry. Read More

Workshop PhotoMini-Intro Make & Take Class

Instructor: Art Clay Senior Instructors
Instructors teaching this mini Intro class are all certified Art Clay Senior Instructors. They all have been working with Art Clay Silver for several years. Now they want to share that knowledge with you in this Mini-Intro Make & Take Class. Read More

Currently not available.
Skill Level: All
Dates/Times: April 14, from 2:00pm to 3:00pm
Fees: $20 » includes materials

This is a fun and easy way to get your feet wet working with metal clay. Learn the very basics of working and firing Art Clay Silver and creating your very first Art Clay fine silver (.999) metal clay jewelry. Read More

Workshop PhotoBlack Hearts Necklace

Instructor: Lillian Todaro
Award-winning artist and author Lillian Todaro Read More

Currently not available.
Skill Level: All
Dates/Times: April 14, from 2:00pm to 5:00pm
Fees:
$40 » class fee
$39 » kit fee

Learn to create this versitale and simple necklace out of two hole beads. The Five Black Hearts design has an allegiance to Victoriana and Steampunk. Also very femine, with a single Swarovski crystal dangling from each Heart. You don’t even need to know how to bead weave to make this charmer. Most students will finish the necklace... Read More

Workshop PhotoBubbling Beauty Fine Silver Pendant

Instructor: Art Clay Senior Instructor Cat Burton
Cat Burton is a certified Art Clay Senior Instructor and PMC Level 2 Instructor and has been teaching since March 2012. She is proficient working with silver and copper clay and teaches many levels of metal clay classes, including Art Clay certifications at her home studio, located in Prescott... Read More

Currently not available.
Skill Level: All
Dates/Times: April 14, from 2:00pm to 8:00pm
Fees: $150 » kit included

This piece is reminiscent of days spent on the beach searching for colorful beach glass. You will learn how to bezel-set CZs using metal clay and add a wave that appears to wash them up on the shore. You will learn how to use the piece itself as a form to create this wave. While your piece is drying, you will create the sea foam bubbles... Read More

Workshop PhotoSecrets of the Heart Fine Silver Earrings

Instructor: Art Clay Senior Instructor Brenna Jimenez
Brenna Jimenez is a certified Art Clay Senior Instructor, who has been working with Art Clay Silver for over 5 years. She has always loved creating and designing her own jewelry using wire-wrapping, and various forms of beading. Her creative and design talent really bloomed when she discovered her... Read More

Currently not available.
Skill Level: Intermediate
Dates/Times: April 14, from 2:00pm to 8:00pm
Fees: $140 » includes kit

Discover the magic of metal clay to make these beautiful heart shaped earrings. Perfect for any outfit. In this class, you will create your own template, learn new techniques to create beautiful rolling scrolls, and other embellishments using minimal tools and your hands. You will then finish these beauties with a gorgeous stone setting... Read More

Workshop PhotoIn-depth Etched/Champleve Enameling Workshop

Instructor: Carole Witt
Graduate of the Revere Academy of Jewelry Arts, Carole has been teaching for over 15 years. Carole and her remarkable staff have a lineup of more than 50 classes in their extensive Jewelry Supply Store, String Bead, in Chico California. They are always striving to increase their ability to reach... Read More

Currently not available.
Skill Level: Enameling Skills recommended
Dates/Times: April 14, from 2:00pm to 9:00pm
Fees: $158 » all supplies including, instructional handout are provided.

The first part of this class will be learning deep Etching, counter enameling, and prepping a piece for the enamel work you will achieve on the front. After a short meal break we will begin the journey of champleve! We will explore color, blending, foils, and layering! Thin layers and multiple times to the kiln will provide clarity and... Read More

Workshop PhotoNatural Tendencies Fine Silver Pendant

Instructor: Art Clay Senior Instructor Cat Burton
Cat Burton is a certified Art Clay Senior Instructor and PMC Level 2 Instructor and has been teaching since March 2012. She is proficient working with silver and copper clay and teaches many levels of metal clay classes, including Art Clay certifications at her home studio, located in Prescott... Read More

Currently not available.
Skill Level: All
Dates/Times: April 15, from 8:30am to 12:30pm
Fees: $120 » includes kit

This class will touch on making molds of objects found in nature and also carving rubber blocks when a mold cannot be made. You will form a spruce branch using an already carved block, texture it, and dry it on a dome form to give it dimension. While it is drying, you will create CZ “berries, a molded bail, and other embellishments.... Read More

Workshop PhotoNature Framed Fine Silver Pendant

Instructor: Art Clay Senior Instructor Inez Flaugh
Inez Flaugh has always loved creating beautiful things with her hands and has dabbled in just about every media out there. Her love of glass and making jewelry is what started Inez down the path in Metal Clay. She took an Introduction to Metal Clay class in 2012 and her head exploded with ideas of... Read More

Currently not available.
Skill Level: Intermediate
Dates/Times: April 15, from 8:30am to 12:30pm
Fees: $120 » includes kit

Have you ever found that perfect bit of nature you want to preserve to retain the beauty? In this class you will make the perfect leaf with a sparkle of dew left behind from a chilly morning and then frame it. The following techniques will be used; create the perfect leaf texture, use props to make the leaf undulate and flush set a CZ, as... Read More

Workshop PhotoMini-Intro Make & Take Class

Instructor: Art Clay Senior Instructors
Instructors teaching this mini Intro class are all certified Art Clay Senior Instructors. They all have been working with Art Clay Silver for several years. Now they want to share that knowledge with you in this Mini-Intro Make & Take Class. Read More

Currently not available.
Skill Level: All
Dates/Times: April 15, from 10:00am to 11:00am
Fees: $20 » includes materials

This is a fun and easy way to get your feet wet working with metal clay. Learn the very basics of working and firing Art Clay Silver and creating your very first Art Clay fine silver (.999) metal clay jewelry. Read More

Workshop PhotoMini-Intro Make & Take Class

Instructor: Art Clay Senior Instructors
Instructors teaching this mini Intro class are all certified Art Clay Senior Instructors. They all have been working with Art Clay Silver for several years. Now they want to share that knowledge with you in this Mini-Intro Make & Take Class. Read More

Currently not available.
Skill Level: All
Dates/Times: April 15, from 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Fees: $20 » includes materials

This is a fun and easy way to get your feet wet working with metal clay. Learn the very basics of working and firing Art Clay Silver and creating your very first Art Clay fine silver (.999) metal clay jewelry. Read More

Workshop PhotoMini-Intro Make & Take Class

Instructor: Art Clay Senior Instructors
Instructors teaching this mini Intro class are all certified Art Clay Senior Instructors. They all have been working with Art Clay Silver for several years. Now they want to share that knowledge with you in this Mini-Intro Make & Take Class. Read More

Currently not available.
Skill Level: All
Dates/Times: April 15, from 2:00pm to 3:00pm
Fees: $20 » includes materials

This is a fun and easy way to get your feet wet working with metal clay. Learn the very basics of working and firing Art Clay Silver and creating your very first Art Clay fine silver (.999) metal clay jewelry. Read More

Workshop PhotoCrystal Caterpillar

Instructor: Lillian Todaro
Award-winning artist and author Lillian Todaro Read More

Currently not available.
Skill Level: All
Dates/Times: April 15, from 2:00pm to 5:00pm
Fees:
$40 » class fee
$39 » kit fee

Learn to make this Slinky, Shimmering Crystal bracelet. Explore the endless possibiities of this vintage, fun and easy stitch known by many names. This is the easiest project that weaves up fast, so most students should complete their bracelet in class. Read More

Workshop PhotoBountiful Bouquet Fine Silver Pendant

Instructor: Art Clay Senior Instructor Inez Flaugh
Inez Flaugh has always loved creating beautiful things with her hands and has dabbled in just about every media out there. Her love of glass and making jewelry is what started Inez down the path in Metal Clay. She took an Introduction to Metal Clay class in 2012 and her head exploded with ideas of... Read More

Currently not available.
Skill Level: All
Dates/Times: April 15, from 2:00pm to 6:00pm
Fees: $100 » includes kit

Perfect for Mother’s Day or any special occasion. An everlasting bouquet of flowers you can keep forever near your heart. For this simply unique pendant, you will learn a new texturing technique using Art Clay Silver Paste and how to flush set CZ’s. This is a beginner’s + class, metal clay experience is helpful, but not... Read More

Workshop PhotoLuna Layered Fine Silver Pendant

Instructor: Art Clay Senior Instructor Cat Burton
Cat Burton is a certified Art Clay Senior Instructor and PMC Level 2 Instructor and has been teaching since March 2012. She is proficient working with silver and copper clay and teaches many levels of metal clay classes, including Art Clay certifications at her home studio, located in Prescott... Read More

Currently not available.
Skill Level: All
Dates/Times: April 15, from 2:00pm to 6:00pm
Fees: $115 » includes kit

Luna is the Latin name for moon and this one shines over a multi-layered scenic view of forested mountains overlooking a serene lake. You will learn how to create three different layers and apply textures you create yourself. You will learn how to easily make trees, water, clouds, and top it off with a beautiful full moon. Projects will... Read More

Basic Jewelry Making Instruction

Instructor: Carole Witt
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Currently not available.
Skill Level: All
Dates/Times: April 13-April 15, ongoing.
Fees: $0 » free demos!

Ongoing Free Demos in jewelry making including stringing, crimping, and jewelry tool instruction. Located in booth #204. Read More

Beadwork Classes with Lillian

Instructor: Lillian Todaro
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Currently not available.
Skill Level: All
Dates/Times: April 13-April 15, ongoing.
Fees: $0 » with purchase of a kit

Free mini beadwork classes with purchase of a kit as well as ongoing demos. Read More

ArtClay Demonstrations

Instructor: Art Clay Instructors
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Currently not available.
Skill Level: All
Dates/Times: April 13-April 15, ongoing.
Fees: $0 » free demo!

Daily demonstrations of how to use artclay to create pure silver jewelry. Read More

Basic Beading & Jewelry Making Instruction

Instructor: Charolotte Silverstein
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Currently not available.
Skill Level: All
Dates/Times: April 13-April 15, ongoing.
Fees: $0 » free demos!

Ongoing Free Demos in jewelry making including beadwork & stringing. Read More
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