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This workshop meets Friday and Saturday, August 22 & 23, 2025, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm each day with a lunch break
This Glorious Goddess Pendant workshop will inspire your creativity. Over two days of project-based instruction, you will create a beautiful goddess pendant using fine silver metal clay and silversmithing techniques. Create your own bezels using a stone for the body and a porcelain or bone face cabochon. Gain deeper understanding about design, metal clay skills, bezel fabrication, soldering, stone setting, patina, and polishing.
Improve your skills in the areas of: * Design * Metal clay texturing, molding and sculpting * Bezel fabrication * Stone setting * Soldering * Patina and polishing
Over the course of two days you will be working with: * Basic metal clay tool kit * Textures * Molds * Torches * Hot plates * Jewelry saws and blades * Bezel cutting tools * Stone setting tools * Soldering tools * Flux * Kiln * Burnishing tools and tumbler * Flex-shaft and finishing burs * Patina and polishing pads
Day one will be focused on design, metal clay work, and creating bezels for your stones. Day two will include soldering, setting stones, adding patina, and polishing your pendants.
Students are encouraged to bring their own basic metal clay kits, safety goggles, bezel setting tools, and any textures or molds they wish to use. However, the instructor will also provide tools, molds and textures for students to share.
Kits (to be purchased from instructor for $ 150 at beginning of class) will contain: * 30 grams of Project X fine silver flex metal clay * Fine silver bezel wire – 12 inches * Sterling silver sheet – 26 gauge – 6x3 inch * Focal stone * Face cabochon * Hard Medium and Easy Solder * Two sterling silver jump rings * Finishing burs
This workshop is part of the Metal Clay Artists Symposium and requires the purchase of the General Registration.
About Cathy:
Cathy Flesher is the Director for the worldwide Camp Metal Clay Certification Program, a certified Principal Instructor, and national teaching artist specializing in the use of metal clay, metalsmithing, enamel, glass and jewelry design. She lives in Tucson, Arizona.
Glorious Goddess Pendant with Cathy Flesher
Please put the MCAS GENERAL REGISTRATION in your cart prior to purchasing hands-on workshops or enrolling in the Sunday Technique Discovery Workshop. The MCAS GENERAL REGISTRATION fee ($100) is non-refundable. Payment in full is required at the time of registration. Workshop fees do not include travel or accommodations. Workshop fees, less a $20 processing fee, are refundable prior to May 1, 2025, if notified in writing to metals@sawtooth.org. If you need to cancel after May 1, 2025, please notify us and we will make every effort to fill your space. If we can fill your space, we will issue you a refund less a $20 processing fee.