This workshop meets Friday and Saturday, August 22 & 23, 2025, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm each day with a lunch break
 
“Boil and Bubble” Cauldron .999 Fine silver hollow form with twist on top. This project will introduce students to building and designing a hollow piece that can be used as an art piece or can be worn as a piece of jewelry.
 
The Boil and Bubble Pendant is a two-day workshop packed with numerous techniques. The pendant features a medium sized hollow cauldron with a twist on top. The cauldron is adorned with bubbles which have been filled with various colors of paint. Students may design their own adornments which could include vines, leaves, fireable gems or anything else that strikes their fancy. This is an intermediate project, perfect for those who love unusual aesthetics and a good challenge. Organic textures, interesting shapes, lots of tricks for building hollow forms. This piece can be a pendant or displayed as a sculpture. Main objectives - learn to make a metal clay, hollow cauldron - learn to make a twist top with a bail - learn to add textures on the cauldron
 
 Kit fee of $10 will be collected by the instructor during the workshop
 
Student Tool List
50 grams of .999 fine silver clay - Art Clay or Project X
Filtered water & container
Small plastic box for storing clay
Clay rolling pin
X-acto knife or scalpel
Tissue blade
Measuring slats
Olive oil
Miniature Files
Paint brushes (1 pointy and 1 flat) suggested sizes 00, 0 or 1
Clay shaper, extra firm, at least the black, #0
Needle tool
Sponge sanding pad, 150 grit (fine)
Warming tray (mug warmer)
Teflon sheets/non-stick surface
Dental burrs and 1/16” collet 
Hand held motorized Dremel or manicure tool 
Small saw blade – to cut clay of light bulb 
Stylus with a 3 mm ball appx to make indents in bubbles to hold paint
Plastic wrap – (to wrap unused wet clay)
Toilet paper roll
Toothbrush (for oiling texture mats etc.)
Jump ring mold mat if you want the cauldron to have bubbles on its surface, which will hold paint. (Sold by Cool Tools) 
3 - round tube cutters approx 4mm & 3.5mm & 2.75 MM
Plain paper
Mechanical pencil
Scotch tape
Ruler
Sandpaper, 220- and 400 grit wet dry is best
Soft brass brush
Sanding tray (take-out plastic tray something to contain your sanding debris)
Burnisher Paint Pens 
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This workshop is part of the Metal Clay Artists Symposium and requires the purchase of the General Registration.
 
About Pam
 
Pam Feindel – Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Metal Clay History Dec 2019 - Camp PMC 101. Jan 2014 - Hadar Jacobson Accredited Instructor Dec 2011 - Senior Art Clay Instructor Dec 2010 - Art Clay Level 1 Instructor 
 
Additional workshops: I have taken dozens of workshops with world renowned metal clay artist over the past 15 years, including Holly Gage, Anna Mazon, Terry Kovalcik, Jacki Truty, Li-sel Crowley, Hadar Jacobson, Pam East, Carrie Story, Cindy Pope, Micheal Marx to name a few and have many Craftcast tutorials. 
 
Instructional Endeavors: I produced 2 Craftcast workshops, and 2 AMCAW tutorials. I presented at SINTER22, Mixed Metal Clay and SINTER24, Hollow Forms Revealed. I continue to teach students of varying levels in my studios in Halifax and Lunenburg Nova Scotia Artistic Displays I sell my work at local craft fairs, markets, art galleries and stores. I participate in AMCAW’s challenges and have had my pieces published in two of AMCAW’s calendars. I am juried into the Metal Arts Guild of NS and Craft NS. 
Employment History 2010 - 2014 – Owned and managed a bead store, “Halifax Bead and Metal Clay.” 1980 - 2010 – Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC), one of the five large banks in Canada. I spent the first 15 years of my career holding various positions in the branch network. During the last 15 years I led a large processing center with approximately 90 employees and was responsible for a multi million-dollar budget. Volunteer History I am an AMCAW board member and have served since its inception in 2018. I currently hold the position of President, previously I was Secretary. I was the team lead for AMCAW’s successful inaugural conference SINTER22, I led the Volunteer Task Force in 2023. I currently lead the Volunteer Support team, SINTER26 team and the Nominating Committee. I am a member of the Finance and Risk team, Fund Raising Team, and I serve as Executive Board Rep on the Metal Clay Live team and the AMCAW Grant team. I served on the Executive for The Metal Arts Guild of Nova Scotia for 5 years 2014- 2019, holding two separate positions, Secretary and then Treasurer. I served as Treasurer for a large basketball organization in Halifax “The Martyrs” from 2002 – 2004.