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Hidden Worlds Challenge Winner – Beginners Category

Hidden Worlds Challenge Winner – Beginners Category

Meet Denise Hershey Winner, Beginners Category, Hidden Worlds Challenge Denise’s winning entry in the Beginners Category began with her discovery of a beautiful rhyolite stone with inclusions that looked like little planetary systems to her.  An archaeology fan and...
Help Available to Artists During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Help Available to Artists During the COVID-19 Pandemic

For many of us, metal clay is not just an artistic pursuit, it’s a business, and the current COVID-19 pandemic is causing real financial hardship. Thankfully, there IS help available specifically for artists and small businesses. There are many foundations and...
Meet Our Sponsor:  Rio Grande and PMC®

Meet Our Sponsor: Rio Grande and PMC®

How Collaboration Shaped PMC® The first time Jaime Padilla, Rio Grande employee and AMCAW director, used precious metal clay (PMC®) she thought, “It’s magical. This clay turns into metal!” The story behind this mythic medium is one of engineers and...
It’s been a big, big year!

It’s been a big, big year!

Annual report for 2019 from Paula McDowell, President As we enter 2020, I want to thank each of you for making 2019 an amazing first full year for AMCAW. As we entered the year, we were a fledgling organization still trying to put committees together. We quickly grew...
Sea & Sky Challenge Winner – People’s Choice

Sea & Sky Challenge Winner – People’s Choice

Kim Rumberger Winner, People’s Choice Award Kim Rumberger’s winning piece, Freedom of Expression, is a silver keepsake box, inspired by a quote from John F. Kennedy:  “If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision...
Sea and Sky Challenge Winner – Jewelry

Sea and Sky Challenge Winner – Jewelry

Liz Sabol Winner, Jewelry Category Liz Sabol’s winning piece, The Man in the Moon pendant, was designed as part of a celestial series of pendants that she’s in the process of producing by die-striking.  “I made the metal clay version as a prototype,” says Liz.  “Only...