This workshop meets Friday, August 22, 2025, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm with a lunch break
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Learn to create a stunning silver vessel pendant in this one-day workshop. Techniques to produce hollow forms, creating a decorative sliding lid, and options for suspending the pendant to float from the chain will be explored. Many design options are possible!!  Experience new skills, tips, and tricks for dry construction and hollow form techniques that artists of any level of metal clay experience can use to create this unique pendant with stunning results.
 
In this workshop learn how to draw, plan, and customize the vessel pendant using silver metal clay, create unique shapes, textures and layers for dimension and contrast.  Enjoy perfecting your design with a variety of interesting findings. As you plan your design, realize there are many shapes and surface designs that are available.  As you create your vessel pendant imagine what your vessel could hold inside. The design for this vessel pendant was inspired to be capable of containing a substance of your choice, such as a fragrant essential oil or a small precious object.  
 
A Kit fee $140 will be collected by the instructor during the workshop and includes:  
30 grams of Art Clay Silver
2 sterling silver crimp ends
35 inches of sterling silver rolo chain
2 Sterling silver decorative tassels
2 Sterling silver jump rings

Student supply list:
Basic Metal Clay Tool kit (your own favorite tools)
 
Materials available for the project & Tools for your use in the classroom:
Basic Metal Clay tool kit (if needed) or bring your own tools
Laminated paper templates created by the instructor
Art Clay silver paste
Metal clay release agent
Variety of texture mats
Teflon worksheets
Circle Templates, other templates
Crimp tools
Jewelry Pliers, Flush Cutters
Sanding and polishing media
Rotary tools for polishing
Patina, if desired
Drying warm plate, Drying forms
 
​This workshop is part of the Metal Clay Artists Symposium and requires the purchase of the General Registration.
 
About Cynthia
I am a graduate level trained Art Teacher and have taught Art in public and private schools. I majored in metals and fibers in Art School at Old Dominion University and I hold a State teaching license valid until 2032. I became interested in precious metal clay in 2011. I took a class with Terry Kovolcik for certification under the Rio Grande Rewards Program and began teaching classes in my hometown Art League in 2012. I continued my study with Pam East and became certified as a Level One Instructor, and following that I studied with Barbara Hance to earn my Senior Certifying Instructor certification in 2017 with Art Clay World. I have been steadily teaching workshops for beginners and experienced students since 2012, I never get tired of it. I have continued my education with the best metal clay instructors I can find in the United States. I have actively attended the MCAS Conferences since 2018. I am an active Instructor member of AMCAW since the beginning of the AMCAW organization. I am actively teaching and promoting the Art of Precious Metal Clay. I have branched out to four locations where I teach classes monthly: Suffolk Art League, Suffolk, VA, Bay Community Arts School, Matthews, VA, Rawls Museum Arts, Courtland, VA and the Suffolk Cultural Arts Center, Suffolk, VA. I am currently teaching up to 15 classes a year, sometimes more. My workshops start at 10:00 am and end at 4:00 pm. All aspects of the metal clay experience are covered starting with basic instruction, review of materials, deciding on a project, construction, finishing techniques, making repairs, patinas, and jewelry construction. My goal is for all of my students after working in my class at the end of the day to be proud to wear their completed project home. In addition to teaching, I am also exhibiting my work in local exhibitions at the Suffolk Art League and the Suffolk Cultural Arts Center.