Jewelry Casting with Natural Materials

Fine Silver Salt Cast with Fresh Water Pearl by Joan Roberts 9258n (cu)

Description

Jewelry Casting with Natural Materials with Kristine Mills

March 24 – 25, 2025 | Monday- Tuesday

  • Times – Monday 10:00 am – 3:00 pm, Tuesday 10:00 am-2:00 pm
  • Experience – Beginner to Intermediate
  • Materials: A Materials Fee of $60 will be paid to the instructor on the first day of the workshop.
  • Registration – Click the Cancellation Policy tab above.
  • Location – Sedona Arts Center, Theatre Studio

This class is an “accidental process” involving natural found materials, and the negative space hollows between them as space for molten silver to flow, and create marvelous natural forms akin to sediments and fossils. This two day intensive workshop will than introduce them to the basics of soldering to attach bails for a pendant or pin backs. Students will go home with a finished piece.

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Kristine Mills

Kristine Mills

Kris Mills received her B.A. in Fine Art from the University of California Davis and her M.F.A from the University of New Mexico. She has won numerous awards including the “Invitational Du Voyager Symposium Snow Sculpture Competition” (Winnipeg, Canada) “Fuzzy Logic” in Southern Exposure (San Francisco, CA), “Seen and Unseen” (Portales NM), The Friends of Art Award (Albuquerque NM), and The People’s Choice Award for “The Roads to Chaos” exhibit. (Albuquerque NM). She has also received numerous scholarships, fellowships, and residencies, including recognition from the Ansel Adams Center for Photography (San Francisco, CA), the Pasadena Art Center (Los Angeles, CA), and a Kohler Residency (Ashland, WI). A guest lecturer, she has presented at the School of Architecture in Fargo, ND, the Schneider Museum of Art in Ashland, OR, Sierra College in Rockland, California, New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, NM, the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, NM, and at the Kohler Arts Center in Wisconsin. Her solo and group exhibitions have appeared all over the country and Europe, in galleries and museums from the Harwood Art Center, (AC)2, the John Sommers Gallery, the UCD Arts and Craft Center Gallery, San Isidro Church, Magnifico Space, Donkey Gallery, 516 Arts, Sheri Crider Arts, The Red Door, the Industrial Steel Gallery/Cell Space, La Galerie 36, L’Espace Pereisc, Musee de L’Elysee, Musee de la Photographiy, NextMonet.com, Café Roma Gallery, Johnson Gallery, The Kimo, Southern Exposure, Niagara Arts Center, Artcite, The Matrix Gallery, Route 66 Gallery, East Bay Depot for Creative Reuse and the University of Alabama Gallery of Photography. She has also exhibited on walls, in windows, and even in a motel (“Dirty Weekend”) in Albuquerque. She is an adjunct lecturer at both the Central New Mexico Community College and the University of New Mexico, where she also runs the jewelry area of the sculpture department. Simultaneously, she worked for 26 years for the renowned artist Joel-Peter Witkin, building and painting sets, backdrops, and props for his photographs, which exhibit internationally.

A Materials Fee of $60 will be paid to the instructor on the first day of the workshop.

Includes 20 ounces sterling silver Gas

sterling wire flux

pickle for cleaning sand paper

saw blades burnishing compound

Additional scrap silver, wire, findings, available for purchase.

Bring natural fiber clothing, leather gloves and safety glasses, lunch

 

Cancellation Policy

Registration

  • Each student must enroll individually
  • Students may register online or by calling the Sedona Arts Center’s Administrative Offices in the Art Barn, toll-free at 888-954-4442 or locally at 928-282-3809
  • Visa, MasterCard, Discover, or American Express are accepted or student may pay with cash or check by registering in person during office hours at the Art Barn

In-Person and Online Workshops

  • Payment in full is due upon registration, or a payment plan can be put in place by the student upon check-out through Sezzle.
  • There is a $125 Cancellation Fee for any cancellations made before February 24, 2025. Remaining balance will be refunded.
  • There are no refunds after February 24, 2025.
  • If Sedona Arts Center cancels the workshop for any reason, all payments made will be refunded in full.

Note: If traveling to Sedona, we strongly urge students to purchase refundable airline tickets or travel insurance in case of workshop cancellation due to insufficient enrollment or other unforeseen changes. Sedona Arts Center is not responsible for non-refundable ticket purchases or lodging fees.

Important Message

The Sedona Arts Center is not responsible for providing make-up sessions or issuing refunds, credits, or transfers for courses missed as a result of illness, emergencies, or other events beyond our control. There are absolutely no refunds after the cut-off date for any reason, unless the Sedona Arts Center has to cancel the workshop, then all fees paid will be refunded in full.

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