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Master Metal Bender Kim Struve Forgetive Master Metal Bender and Senior Certifying Metal Clay Instructor Kim Struve of San Antonio, Texas, chooses industry leaders? hands-on courses to accelerate her competencies. She has provided metal clay education to adults and children in large [70+] and small groups since 2011. Struve has great student rapport, as one opined, ?Kim is an amazing artist with a big heart and open mind; ready to learn from every class she teaches.? Love, math and nature influence her designs, and passion demands she share the FUNctional, unique and novel through demonstrations, presentations, lessons, courses, and inventions. Her work has been exhibited internationally, published in Metal Clay Today, printed in the MCAS guide, graced April in the calendar of Exceptional Work, and the Struve Fold Lock techniques won the first AMCAW Innovation Award; others to follow. Her special methods resulted from a determination to create strong joinery, components, jewelry and art with no tools, no waste and no mess using foldableSILVER -an innovative fine silver form. Kim seized the opportunity to grant the public easy entry to the luxurious world of fine jewelry design and creation by developing Metal Leather TM Kits. These fine silver trading card kits fit in your wallet, have simple video instructions, start under $5, and can fly -TSA approves!