Student Work- Phoenix College Jewelry I & II

I had a great first semester teaching metals at Phoenix College and it was certainly due to a fabulous group of students as well as a great faculty and facilities. This is a fledgling program and although we don't have all the wonderful equipment that MAC has, the program really has potential (we can always get the equipment down the line). Beginning students learned the classics: sawing, piercing, rivets, box ring soldering and casting. Intermediate/ Advanced students worked on forging and fold forming, etching and hinges and a box. I haven't had time to process the final project images but here is just a highlight of some of the work in no particular order:

Lisa O'Rourke- Jewelry I

Lisa O'Rourke- Jewelry I

Liz Christensen- Jewelry I

Liz Christensen- Jewelry I

Malai Suriyasataporn- Independent Study

Malai Suriyasataporn- Independent Study

Malai Suriyasataporn- Independent Study

Malai Suriyasataporn- Independent Study

Malai Suriyasataporn- Independent Study

Margaret Murphy- Jewelry II

Margaret Murphy- Jewelry II

Margaret Murphy- Jewelry II

Vickie Gudger- Independent Study

Vickie Gudger- Independent Study

Vionnie Boykins- Jewelry II

The class meets MW 9-11.45 am. If you are interested you can register through Phoenix College. Jewelry I will always be the same- sawing, filing, textures, riveting, soldering and casting. Jewelry II changes from semester to semester. For Spring I'm planning on teaching chains, marriage of metal and torch fire enameling. Contact me if you have any questions!

Mesa Arts Center Classes start Monday!

The summer session is here for MAC classes! We have a great lineup, which you can check out at our dedicated site for the jewelry program: www.macjewelryclasses.com or at the official Mesa Arts Center website: www.mesaartscenter.com.
I'll be teaching an 8 week enameling class for beginners and continuing students wishing to work on their own projects with instructor access.

I know you've seen this before but I'll just include it here again
to give you an idea of the range of enamels. From left to right:
raku, cloisonne, painting, sifting/sgraffito/inlay

I'm also offering an 8 week Introduction to Photoshop Elements class, which still needs one more person. It starts Thursday 6.30-9pm and I'll cover camera basics, and how to optimize and funk up your photos using the much more affordable Photoshop Elements although if you have Photoshop, I'll cover that as well. There's still time to register! Contact me at my yahoooooo! address: hjewelclark if you have any questions :-)

Here is an example of the original photo I took of the courtyard fountain
at the Heard Museum on right, and the finished image on left. I know, this
should be reversed. I used Photoshop for this but I could have gotten the same
results in Elements.

MAC Jewelry Classes website gets a facelift

I am using the MAC jewelry classes website as my guinea pig to learn WordPress and I now have a working site (albeit with plenty more to do) up and running.  If you haven't seen it yet, check it out because if you are interested in taking metals classes there, this site is a way better way to find out about what's going on than the official MAC website!  Yikes.  Sorry to have to say that.  Anyway, check it out here.

I will be adding more media (movies/ pics/ news/ etc.) and adding to the Resources list as well as tweaking the look.  Feedback is appreciated!

Happy New Year!

Here's to a year of making great art! 
Hope your project drawer is full of great ideas and inspiration!

Here's to whittling some of this down, too!