Conference Presenter – Priscilla Vassão The diploma says she’s an architect, but ever since she remembers, Priscilla Vassão was
making jewely - out of colorful telephone wires and epoxy clay as a child, to fine silver wire
and seeds in her teens and finally finding a silversmithing class when in college. She had been
making traditional silver jewelry for years when she came across Art Clay Silver in 2003 and
immediately fell in love with the material. A little later she was being appointed the Brazillian distributor
and begun working in the promotion and teaching of this beautiful technique.
Priscilla has extensive training in several aspects of jewelry making, from traditional silversmithing
techniques, stone sng, repoussée, mokume gane and wax carving to lampworking glass, enamelling
and polymer clay. She is an Art Clay Senior Instructor and has personally certified over 150 new instructors in Brazil.
Facing some very unique artistic and economic scenarios, she has focused on making metal clay more accessible,
affordable and widespread, and has developed a few specific techniques in that direction along the way. |
Conference Presentation Overview:
Adding Metal Clay to Commercial SilverMetal clay and traditional techniques CAN work together to create beautiful jewelry!
This seminar focuses on metal clay as a creative option for embellishments and ornaments on fine and sterling silver jewelry. Learn how ready–made fine and sterling silver sheets and wires can help you make your pieces stronger and thinner and bring your costs down. At the same time, see how you can use metal clay to embellish, customize or simply give a new twist to commercial sterling silver jewely.
The seminar will be composed of a PowerPoint presentation with step–by–step pictures of several projects, a handout, and finished pieces will be passed around. |
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