JUN 15th IN-PERSON - Silver Metal Clay Charms and Pendants with Cathi Milligan

This is the total starter beginner silver clay class. Do you know about metal clay? It’s a cool material that starts as clay and once formed, dried, refined, and fired, you have pure silver jewelry parts. Super cool stuff. You can make so many cool things without the need for heavy duty silversmithing tools. the material we will be working with can be torch fired or kiln fired. We’ll have a kiln on hand and torches so everyone can experience both methods. The class includes 10 grams of silver clay. More will be available for purchase if you would like. We’ll be spending three hours in this class.

Helping you find your creative space is what motivates Cathi in all of her pursuits, which include glass art, real estate, publishing, jewelry making, and assisting people to learn more about all of these things. She started with graphic design, but because of a life long love of jewelry making, and a discovery of glass bead making, she shifted over to the artist life.

Bead making lead to fusing glass and then blowing glass. Along the way, the bead making opened up opportunities to appear on craft TV, and write how-articles, and even a book on macrame. A brick and mortar location soon followed in Highland Park. Within her Highland Park community Cathi got involved in the neighborhood council, and then the local monthly art walk. This participation in the community lead to public art opportunities, including mosaic work for the first parklet in Los Angeles. After leaving the council, Cathi started publishing a print publication, first NELAart News, then changed to LA Art News. It was a nice 6 1/2 year print run, and now LAartnews.com is how you get your art news.

Cathi has recently moved into a new studio in Little Tokyo, The Makery, and splits her time between making, real estate, teaching, publishing her various websites, and creating how-to videos for her YouTube channel, The Creative Space. Follow her @cathicreatesspaces on the Gram.