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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
Create a ring that has a small hidden vessel in this two-day workshop. Participants will learn how to create a small lidded vessel disguised within a ring. Through creating this project, how to make a hidden locking lid, a technique that can be adapted and incorporated into many future projects, will be learned. This workshop will guide participants in how to incorporate their vessels into a ring design of their choice.
A kit fee of $84 will be collected by the instructor during the workshop for 25g of EZ.960 clay and CZ's, silver clay price may change to reflect market
Students should bring their basic metal clay tool kit.
This workshop is part of the Metal Clay Artists Symposium and requires the purchase of the General Registration.
About Karen:
I have studied art academically, and received a BFA from Ball State University and Master of Fine Arts with an emphasis in metalsmithing and enameling from the University of Wisconsin- Madison. After graduating with my MFA, I shifted my making emphasis from traditional metalsmithing to working with metal clay, falling in love with the accessibility and diverse possibilities of projects possible resulting from the flexibility of the material. I was hired as Cool Tools’ resident artist and regularly practice instructing others in making through the youtube videos Cool Tools produces. I have experience teaching in person and have led workshops at MCAS in 2023, and at AMCAW's Sinter Conference, where I also presented, in 2022. I've been honored to serve as a Juror of AMCAW’s Opposites and Contrasts artist challenge in 2023, and serve as an expert for consultation for AMCAW’s challenge winners since 2019.
Relic Ring with Karen Trexler
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.