Teaching & Lectures
2025
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Imaginative Captures.
5 days.
May 1-5
Berkeley, CA. Silvera Jewelry School.
Coming back to the Bay Area!​
Looking for a new way to integrate gemstones--or enamels, found objects --or that little treasure that's
been on your bench for years-- in your work? Well, Imaginative Captures can help you develop new,
elegant, more fluid and fully integrated setting (capturing) solutions. This 5 day information-packed
workshop is full of tips and tricks that can help you find a new way to look at what and how you are
making and break down some of the rigid walls that exist between ideas, process and materials.
We’ll get up close and personal with the flex shaft, soldering, riveting and cold connecting and liberate the
problem solver within.
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So, if you're looking to shake things up in your studio practice or a fresh way to look at things,
Imaginative Captures may be just what you’re looking for.
Join us at Silvera Jewelry School in Berkeley CA. A really wonderful teaching studio!
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Bang & Bend: SmallScale Forging for Metalsmiths
5 days
June 2-6
Pocosin. Columbia, NC
Been a while since I’ve taught at Pocosin--and I'm excited to return.
Moving metal by hammering--forging-- is a process that underlies so many processes in the studio.
(In fact, the word smith is derived fromsmite: to strike .) Once you understand the principles,
forging can be applied to rings, pendants, earrings, bracelets and small to mid-sized and large objects.
Forging can play a supporting role or can be the star of the show. It's good for the soul and Pocosin
is a great place to hear the anvil ring & let the hammer swing.
Columbia, NC.
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Imaginative Captures.
4 days.
September 19-22
Denver, CO. Denver Jewelry School.
Originally scheduled for last summer, this will be my first time teaching at this venue.
If you're looking for a new way to integrate gemstones--or enamels, found objects --or that little treasure that's
been on your bench for years-- Imaginative Captures can help you develop new,
elegant, more fluid and fully integrated setting (capturing) solutions. This 4 day information-packed
workshop is full of tips and tricks that can help you find a new way to look at what and how you are
making and break down some of the rigid walls that exist between ideas, process and materials.
We’ll get up close and personal with the flex shaft, soldering, riveting and cold connecting and liberate the
problem solver within.
​
So, if you're looking to shake things up in your studio practice or a fresh way to look at things,
Imaginative Captures may be just what you’re looking for.
Join us at Denver Jewelry School in Colorado.
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Bang & Bend: SmallScale Forging for Metalsmiths.
4 days
October 23-26
Michigan Silversmiths Guild (@ CCS).
Come to Detroit and learn how to move metal by hammering. Forging is a process that is the foundation
to many other processes in the studio. (In fact, the word smith is derived from smite: to strike .) Once you
understand the principles, forging can be applied to rings, pendants, earrings, bracelets and small to
mid-sized and large objects. Forging can play a supporting role or can be the star of the show. It's good for the soul!