Silver Metal Clay II Workshop
Adult | Registration opens 11/17/2025 8:00 PM EST
Take your pendant designs to the next level! Learn to form and fire silver metal clay into three-dimensional pendants using techniques such as doming, stacking, and draping over support materials. Explore attaching pendant bales, perfecting dry finishing, and optional flush stone setting. By the end of the class, depending on size and design, students can finish and take home one or two unique, handcrafted silver pendants. Prerequisite: at least one other metal clay class.
A materials fee* of approx. $110. includes sufficient metal clay, tools, supplies and handouts to complete class project, and is payable to the instructor at class.
*Materials fee is subject to change with the metals market.This class has a required materials list.
- Prerequisite: at least one other metal clay class.
.A materials fee* of approx. $105 includes sufficient metal clay, tools, supplies and handouts to complete class project, and is payable to the instructor at class. *Materials fee is subject to change with the metals market.
Please refer to required material list below.
Required:
Students must bring a portable work surface with them to class. (styrene or silicone sheet)
Helpful Items:
1. Texturing materials such as: bottle caps, tube caps, fresh leaves, coarse fabric remnants, screening (plastic- not aluminum), tree bark, comb, nuts and bolts, small cookie cutters, other metal clay texturing tools you can purchase online.
2. Magnifiers if needed for close-up work
3. Safety glasses and dust mask
4. Blow dryer- if you have one at home to bring it will be helpful.
Please bring your lunch to save valuable working time. The use of face masks is optional.
Nancy Karpel
Nancy Karpel holds a BS from Albertus Magnus College, and PMC Guild Teacher's Certification. She has taught jewelry making at schools and art centers throughout her 46 years as a professional jewelry artist. Nancy has been published and her work exhibited extensively. Her work has been featured in several books on the subject of Precious Metal Clay. She sells her work through her New Haven, CT studio, N. Karpel Studio LLC, where she produces a line of contemporary jewelry, and through her website www.nancykarpeljewelry.com.