Getting started in Polymer Clay
Date/Time
3/31/2025
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM Eastern
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM Eastern
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Event Type(s)
Classes and Workshops
Event Description
Instructor: Robyn Crawford
Date: 3/31/2025
Time: 10 am - 1 pm
Location: Art Place Gallery Workshop
Member: $70 Non-member: $90
Getting Started with Polymer Clay
Join us for a fun, beginner-friendly class in polymer clay techniques! No experience is needed, and all materials are provided. In this hands-on workshop, you'll learn the basics of working with polymer clay, including conditioning, rolling, and shaping the clay. We’ll cover simple techniques like creating marbled designs, using cutters for shapes, and adding textures for unique finishes. You’ll also get to explore how to bake your creations to perfection and finish them. By the end, you'll have a collection of beautiful, personalized pieces to take home! This amazing medium lends itself to not just jewelry components, but handmade buttons and findings for your fiber projects, elements to include in a mixed media piece, and SO much more! The sky is the limit!
We’ll start with an overview of polymer clay. You’ll learn about the different brands, tools, bake times, embellishing options, etc. Then, you’ll cover some basic cane-building techniques. Finally, you’ll create some simple, yet elaborate-looking, beads, pendants, or other small project. Only you and your fellow students will know how easy they were to make!
No experience is needed. Feel free to bring a snack for a short break.
Artist Bio:
Robyn Crawford studied at Emerson College, Massachusetts College of Art, and Rochester Institute of Technology’s School of Photographic Arts and Sciences. She has been a mixed media artist, photographer, teacher, and creativity coach for over 30 years and has exhibited work throughout the Carolinas. She loves working with new materials and finds that it shakes things up and generates new ideas in other mediums as well. She uses her own images, clay, acrylics, mosaic, handmade papers, hot glass, metal, resin, crystals, and more to create fun, colorful pieces of work that connect to her spirit
Date: 3/31/2025
Time: 10 am - 1 pm
Location: Art Place Gallery Workshop
Member: $70 Non-member: $90
Getting Started with Polymer Clay
Join us for a fun, beginner-friendly class in polymer clay techniques! No experience is needed, and all materials are provided. In this hands-on workshop, you'll learn the basics of working with polymer clay, including conditioning, rolling, and shaping the clay. We’ll cover simple techniques like creating marbled designs, using cutters for shapes, and adding textures for unique finishes. You’ll also get to explore how to bake your creations to perfection and finish them. By the end, you'll have a collection of beautiful, personalized pieces to take home! This amazing medium lends itself to not just jewelry components, but handmade buttons and findings for your fiber projects, elements to include in a mixed media piece, and SO much more! The sky is the limit!
We’ll start with an overview of polymer clay. You’ll learn about the different brands, tools, bake times, embellishing options, etc. Then, you’ll cover some basic cane-building techniques. Finally, you’ll create some simple, yet elaborate-looking, beads, pendants, or other small project. Only you and your fellow students will know how easy they were to make!
No experience is needed. Feel free to bring a snack for a short break.
Artist Bio:
Robyn Crawford studied at Emerson College, Massachusetts College of Art, and Rochester Institute of Technology’s School of Photographic Arts and Sciences. She has been a mixed media artist, photographer, teacher, and creativity coach for over 30 years and has exhibited work throughout the Carolinas. She loves working with new materials and finds that it shakes things up and generates new ideas in other mediums as well. She uses her own images, clay, acrylics, mosaic, handmade papers, hot glass, metal, resin, crystals, and more to create fun, colorful pieces of work that connect to her spirit
Location
The Art Place Gallery Classroom
2021 Asheville Highway
Hendersonville, NC 28739
UNITED STATES
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2021 Asheville Highway
Hendersonville, NC 28739
UNITED STATES
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