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New Metal Clays Enter The Market

Jul 13, 2023 | Education, General, Learning Center, News

Metal clays: Expanding, Not Shrinking! When PMC3, the earliest product line of metal clays, announced its exit from the metal clay market last year, a ripple went through the metal clay world. Was metal clay in danger? Would any suppliers step in to fill the void?...

Magnetic Finishers And Their Variables

Oct 13, 2022 | Guest Blog, Education, General, Learning Center

I always use a magnetic finisher to burnish my pieces right out of the kiln, whether I’m planning to simply patinate them or enamel. This machine creates a surface that works for both processes. When I taught “Grooving on Metal Clay & Enamels” at The Enamelist...

Making Your Own Flexible Metal Clay

Aug 11, 2022 | Guest Blog, Education, General, Learning Center

Make Flexible Metal Clay There are dozens of different methods online about making your own flexible metal clay (this is yet another one). Most I’ve seen either involve precise measurements, which never seem to work, or require you to pretty much make a mess...

Silver Metal Clays – Which is the right one for your needs?

Jul 29, 2022 | Education, General, Learning Center

It’s hard to believe that, in little more than thirty years after metal clay was first produced in silver, it’s available in so many forms and from so many manufacturers. You can work with silver in paper type, lump form, paste, overlay paste, and syringe....

The Inside Scoop on Calls for Entries and Why You Should Enter

Jul 27, 2022 | Challenges, Education, General

Tips from the Jurors The Inside Scoop on Calls for Entries and Why You Should Enter Why You Should Enter Getting your work seen is the first step to becoming known in the wider metal clay and jewelry making community, as well as in front of potential customers and/or...

Secrets to Achieving Your Goals

Jun 13, 2022 | Education, General, Guest Blog

I’d like to share a few thoughts about goal setting. I’ve run across students and artists who set goals like “I want to win the Saul Bell Award” or other recognition awards and they pin their happiness on that goal. But setting goals that are outside of your control...

New Metal Clays Enter The Market

Magnetic Finishers And Their Variables

Making Your Own Flexible Metal Clay

Silver Metal Clays – Which is the right one for your needs?

The Inside Scoop on Calls for Entries and Why You Should Enter

Secrets to Achieving Your Goals

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