Create personalized ID charms and/or a cuff bracelet that incorporates your chosen stamped words, patterns and symbols to honor a person, place or event in your life or stamp your power word. This workshop will teach you about basic jewelry hand tools, their usage and safety and traditional metalworking techniques in order to create your very own handmade jewelry for yourself or as great gifts for friends and family! You will learn: letter stamping, decorative wire stamping, hammer texturing, and metal forming.

Create your very own Sterling Silver band ring by learning and utilizing a variety of Silversmithing techniques. This workshop will teach you about the use of  hand tools and machines for measuring, ring sizing, metal forming, texturing, silver solder brazing, and finishing techniques (filing, sanding, and polishing).

Design and build a time capsule collage memory box to honor a person, place, event or time in your life for you or for someone special. Please bring special keepsakes and mementos, beads, found objects, pictures (or color copies best). We will have available wood, tools and miscellaneous art supplies in order for you to create a finished art project. You will receive instruction with processes in paint, designing, and hand tools.

Using acrylic paints and collage materials, we will explore the abstract visual world of accident and doodle. Let go of expectations to discover what is unique about a visual adventure in integrating a variety of materials, discarded and recycled with paint to explore the creative process. In this workshop, we’ll take a broad view of abstraction, expression and composition.

The term “improvisation” is described for this approach because it is very much like playing a solo in jazz: In a typical jazz solo, the musician makes up a melody as he or she goes along, over a set of chord changes that define the song. We’ll begin with an improv gluing of materials. Using this as a foundation, we’ll compose-as-you-go in paint and collage to create an expression of this experience, time and place.

This workshop will expose participants to folk artists and artists working in the realm of 3-Dimensional art.  Build sculptural art with mixed media, wood, metal and found objects.  Please bring anything you find interesting and intriguing to share or incorporate into your art, i.e. -extra hardware parts, small objects, fabric, junk drawer items, wood scraps, really anything under the sun.  We will have available wood, tools, found objects, some machines and miscellaneous art supplies and hand tools in order for you to create a finished art project.   

Let’s create a unique workshop for you or a group of friends! A girls’ night out or a private lesson to make that special piece of jewelry or artwork that you’ve always wanted. Life is so short. Don’t wait to create! <3