METAL CLAY
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By Kim Struve
NEWBIES Unblock your creativity as YOU design and create your own fine silver beauties combining the latest innovations in luxury art materials and award-winning Struve Fold Lock techniques. Come PLAY alongside their forgetive developer in this valuable workshop where YOU design and make your own fine jewelry with Metal Leather Kits of recycled fine silver and guidance of Master Metal Bender Kim Struve.
Metal Leather Kits trading card kits are small enough to make on a plane then bake off! Enjoy freedom to create most anywhere with these #foldableSILVER kits from ArtWabiSabi. SHARE your joy with friends & family: invite them to these workshops, send gift kits in the mail for no extra postage, even host a profitable Fold & Fire event to teach the Struve Fold Locks.
YOU will learn to design, fold and assemble your own fine silver art with simple folding lessons. Several class projects include making wire and folded findings, gems and other inclusions, the expansion formula and gentle metalsmithing.
Special Notes or requirements: Fine motor skills and clear vision are necessary.
**Bring jumpring pliers or reserve one of four sets.
Bring your preferred lighting and/or magnification.
No drinks in work area and no rotary tools in class.
About Kim Struve
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!
No available dates
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