Patrick Kusek

Sign up TODAY! for New Orleans PMC Certification, Oct 11, 12 & 13

I’ll be in New Orleans next month to teach a Rio Grande PMC certification class. This is a whole new certification program with updates and new projects! This new program has been only taught  few times and will not officially be announced until later this year. The new certification includes PMC Sterling — 2 new

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Woodland Chic Design Exploration 13 – Donna Penoyer

This week’s featured artist is Donna Penoyer. I love Donna’s creativity. I often tell my students that there are 3 “C’s” when designing new jewelry, 1) Concept 2) Creativity and 3) Craftsmanship. Her work simply sings! Ok her work also literally sings! Donna is known as “The Whistle Lady” and true to form she created

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Woodland Chic Design Exploration 12 – Paula McDowell

When I asked artists to be on my Woodland Chic Design Team I knew they would produce beautiful pieces, but I was pleasantly surprised with some of the unique solutions artist came up.  When I asked Paula, she immediately took the challenge to heart. She created this wonderful locket. While simple at first glance, this

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Paula McDowell

Woodland Chic Design Exploration 11 – Tracey Spurgin

This weeks featured artist is Tracey Spurgin! Tracey is a smiling beam of light when she walks into any room! I love her energy!  I was so happy that she joined the Woodland Chic Design Team. For you lucky metal clay artists in the UK, Tracey owns CraftWorx. Check out her great school and learn

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Tracey Spurgin

Woodland Chic Design Exploration 10 – Donna Lewis

This weeks featured artist is Donna Lewis! I’ve admired Donna’s work for some time now and I was so thrilled that she joined the Woodland Chic Design Team.  Donna’s creative take on the task was to make a mold from the texture plate. By making a mold of the Woodland Chic Texture plate she was

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Mendocino Art Center Summer 2013

Catching up on blogging again. I had terrible computer issues, lost files, corruption etc, general over all computer yuck! After recovering from that then the website had to be updated.  Travel teaching took priority over the blog and low and behold it is WEEKS later since my last post. However…now that the behind the scenes

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