JUN 8th IN-PERSON - Basic Wire Wrapping with Cathi Milligan

The wire wrapped loop can be used in a variety of design situations. You can make your own chain by creating links, or charms using a headpin. You can make a hook clasp, and that same basic design can be an ear wire as well. All that working with wire can inspire a craft person to alter the basic designs and personalize them to your own style. In this class we’ll start a bracelet, which you will finish on your own, some charms (earrings?), and the clasp/ear wire design. We’ll be doing that in three hours. All sterling wire will be supplied. 

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.