Create and wear your own hand wrought jewelry! In this 6 week class take a piece of silver from scratch and design and fabricate your very own ring with a cabochon (rounded stone) setting. Watch it all come together while learning soldering, bezel forming, and pierce and cut techniques, manipulating all those items into a beautiful piece of jewelry to treasure forever.
Create unique and custom pieces unlike any other! In this 6 week class explore traditional designs while giving them a different twist. Course covers hot & cold connections, piercing, stone setting and other metalsmithing techniques. All levels welcome.
Fold forming is a simple technique with a complex and alluring look. Equipped with a hammer, a little anvil and fire, you can easily make your own fashionable jewelry or sculpture. All skill levels welcome.
Learn to make beautiful jewelry for yourself or that special friend. In this 6 week class beginners and advanced students will be guided through designing and creating unique designs of their own. We will learn soldering, metal sawing and piercing, and other metalsmithing techniques. Enjoy the wonders of metals while creating a treasure to wear.
You will use white porcelain clay and basic hand building techniques to make a beautiful ceramic luminary. Decorate it with stars, hearts, flowers or whatever shapes you prefer. Receive a free LED tea light to illuminate your creation when you pick up your fired piece! All experience levels are welcome.
*Students will need to make arrangements to pick up fired pieces two weeks after workshop.
Students with a firm foundation in basic technical skills will enjoy this class. Form, surface design, glazing, and firing will be explored in greater depth. Advanced students (with five sessions or the equivalent, or working at a level determined to be advanced by the instructor) will be required to do their own firing in cooperation with the Canton Ceramic Artists Guild in order to deepen their understanding of the total process.
Students with a firm foundation in basic technical skills will enjoy this class. Form, surface design, glazing, and firing will be explored in greater depth. Advanced students (with five sessions or the equivalent, or working at a level determined to be advanced by the instructor) will be required to do their own firing in cooperation with the Canton Ceramic Artists Guild in order to deepen their understanding of the total process.
Beginning students will be taught the basics of hand-building and wheel-work while intermediate students will refine their skills. Individual projects will include functional pottery and decorative work. Glazing techniques will be taught, finished ware will be discussed, and demonstrations will be given.
*All CMA ceramics students are required to purchase their clay from the CMA; the cost is $40.00 for 25 pounds of clay and includes cost of glazes and firing.
*Beginning students may also purchase clay and a pottery tool kit ($13.50) from the CMA
