Cathy Flesher is the Program Director for the Camp Metal Clay national certification program, teaching artist, and handmade jewelry designer based in Tucson, Arizona. Expert in the use of metal clay, metals, bead, wire, solder, and glass. Online workshops, consulting, and studio time available.
See you in North Carolina at MCAS 2025!
I'm pleased to join the amazing group of instructors teaching at the 2025 Metal Clay Artists Symposium to be held August 21-24, 2025 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina at Sawtooth School for Visual Art. I'm looking forward to seeing many of you in person.
I'll be teaching a two-day Glorious Goddess Pendant Workshop on Friday, August 22 and Saturday, August 23 from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm. These workshops sell out quickly. Click here for more information and registration details.
Learn more about MCAS 2025 by visiting the Sawtooth conference page.
Workshop Description
This Glorious Goddess Pendant workshop will inspire your creativity! Over two days of project-based instruction, you will create a beautiful goddess pendant using fine silver metal clay and silversmithing techniques. Create your own bezels using a stone for the body and a porcelain or bone face cabochon. Gain deeper understanding about design, metal clay skills, bezel fabrication, soldering, stone setting, patina, and polishing.
Over two days you will be working with a basic metal clay tool kit, textures, molds, torches, hot plates, jewelry saws and blades, bezel cutting tools, stone setting tools, soldering tools, flux, kiln, burnishing tools and tumbler, flex-shaft and finishing burs, patina and polishing pads.
Improve your skills in the areas of:
- Design
- Metal clay texturing
- Molding and sculpting
- Bezel fabrication
- Stone setting
- Soldering
- Patina and polishing
- Focused on design, metal clay work, and creating bezels for your stones
- Soldering, setting stones, adding patina, and polishing your pendants.
Students are encouraged to bring their own basic metal clay tool kits, safety goggles, bezel setting tools, and any textures or molds they wish to use. However, I will also provide tools, molds, and textures for students to share.
Course Material Kit
In addition to course registration, a separate materials kit must be purchased from the instructor for $ 150 and will contain: 30 grams of Project X fine silver flex metal clay, fine silver bezel wire, sterling silver sheet, 26 gauge (6x3 inch), focal stone, face cabochon, hard, medium, and easy solder, two sterling silver jump rings, and finishing burs.