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Conference Presenter – Lorrene Davis Lorrene Davis is an award winning artist who has been creating and teaching the Metal Clays and Polymer Clays since 1996. She took the first West Coast Metal Clay workshop in 1996 and has been blissfully working with it ever since. Her first foray into the polymers was when she had a teacher from Napa hold a workshop in a gallery she owned in El Dorado Hills, CA. This past March she dove into fused glass and has been incorporating this exciting medium into her metal clay art.She was an active Certified Senior Instructor in Art Clay and in 2006 she was honored to become a Master Instructor with Art Clay World. In addition to many newspaper publications, Lorrene has had articles written about her Metalsmithing craft and has written two magazine articles on using metal clay and polymer clay: April 2005 she wrote a Metal Clay article "Rio Oro" River of Gold for the Step–by–Step section of Lapidary Journal (now Jewelry Artist) and in the spring of 2006 her article on Davis’ Stained Glass Cane is in the quarterly, PolymerCAFÉ magazine. In the summer of 2007 she wrote a well received small book on Setting Stones in Metal Clay. This year she has developed a new tool to be announced in the near future. She graduated from the Revere Academy of Jewelry Arts in 1988 and has taught Jewelry Design and Rendering at the California Institute of Jewelry Training in Sacramento, CA. She has also been teaching at U Bead It Gallery & Shop in Sacramento, since 2002 and is on the faculty at the Revere Academy as one of their Metal Clay instructors. Her students have come to her Sierra Foothills Studio from distances such as Beijing, China, Rhode Island, Arizona and California. She has clients in France, Germany and the United Kingdom as well as the USA. |
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