Kate McKinnon

Buildings, Boxes & Birdhouses

November 7th - 8th, 2009

9:30am-5:30pm

2-Workshop Fee: $450.00 (includes all materials and lunch)

This two-day workshop explores the 3-D box form. Students will learn to structure these forms into rings, pendants, brooches, and simple sculptures. Get creative and make your pieces convertible. Class projects will be suitable for all levels, exciting beginners while offering enough options to challenge even accomplished students. Learn Kate’s secrets to working with dry clay, components, fine silver wire, and other goodies! This workshop includes 50 grams of clay, plus fine silver wire, and all use of all our studio tools and equipment. The possibilities are endless, so feel free to experiment with these new techniques. This is an intermediate level workshop.

KATE MCKINNON has been designing and creating jewelry for 10 years. She lectures and teaches internationally and is the author of several popular books on jewelry technique. She is best known for her work as a metal clay artist, especially as she took First Place in the PMC category of the prestigious Saul Bell Design Award competition in 2005. Kate feels that making jewelry is actually a very small part of who she is. Kate sees herself as a communicator who shares what she loves with others through teaching, her website, speeches, magazine articles and books. Kate believes that strong connections are important both to building successful jewelry and to creating a meaningful life. She also believes that everyone has the capacity to create.

 www.katemckinnon.com