Located in Bellingham, Washington (between Seattle and Vancouver, BC) at: 521 Kentucky Street, Bellingham, WA 98225 Pouncing Rain Jewelry and Metal Working Center is a community education center. We offer ongoing weekly classes in jewelry making and silversmithing, as well as one and two day workshops in various other jewelry making techniques. We have a studio membership program for students and community jewelry/metal artist to work independently in our fully equipped studio.
Monday, January 31, 2011
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If you follow us on Twitter we will try to retweet all of your jewelry related tweets. Just let us know you follow us on blogspot.
Thursday, January 27, 2011
BRONZclay Workshop
Bronze Clay Workshop
Cost: $90.00 Instructor: Ryan Albachten Prerequisites: NO EXPERIENCE NEEDED! In this workshop we will be working with and getting to know the metal clay, BRONZclay, as well as learning the differences between each of the metal clays. You will have materials enough to make a pendant or pin and a pair of earrings or couple of charms. We will focus on texturing and shaping, using several different techniques, including cold-molding. Find out what everyone is talking about with this newer metal clay and how to fire and finish properly. Pieces will fire overnight and students will have their finished pieces ready the next day for pickup. We are happy to mail finished pieces for any students who are not local.
February 6th, Sunday, 10:00am - 3:30pm
Cost: $90.00 Instructor: Ryan Albachten Prerequisites: NO EXPERIENCE NEEDED! In this workshop we will be working with and getting to know the metal clay, BRONZclay, as well as learning the differences between each of the metal clays. You will have materials enough to make a pendant or pin and a pair of earrings or couple of charms. We will focus on texturing and shaping, using several different techniques, including cold-molding. Find out what everyone is talking about with this newer metal clay and how to fire and finish properly. Pieces will fire overnight and students will have their finished pieces ready the next day for pickup. We are happy to mail finished pieces for any students who are not local.
February 6th, Sunday, 10:00am - 3:30pm
Beginning Jewelry Making 3 Day Intensive Class
Beginning Jewelry Making 3 Day Intensive Class
Cost: $240.00 Instructor: Judi Gauthier Prerequisites: NO EXPERIENCE NEEDED! Learn all the basics of metalworking and jewelry making in one long weekend! This class will introduce you to this vast and wonderful world in three short days. You will learn about materials, equipment, and safety in the jewelry lab. Through a series of demonstrations, you will also learn how to saw, pierce, file, texture, solder, rivet, and polish metal. You will leave with the basic skills and knowledge you will need to start creating on your own! This hands on class will give you time to finish several pieces.
February 11th - 13th, Friday - Sunday, 10:00am - 5:00pm
Click here for more info! http://pouncingrain.com/beginning3day.html
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Still Room in our Woven Wire Workshop
Cost: $55.00
Instructor: Nanci LaHatt
Prerequisites: NO EXPERIENCE NEEDED!
All materials are included.
This class introduces you to a wire weaving technique for creating beautiful bracelets and necklaces. You will work with 22 gauge copper wire to weave a lovely copper bracelet. This project will give you enough practice necessary to weave silver wire in to necklaces and bracelets of your own design.
January 29th
Saturday, 10:00am - 2:00pm
$55.00
Ryan's Last Day
Ryan's last day as retail manager was this week;-(. We are sure going to miss her, but do not despair, she is going to be teaching and doing evening open studio (including tonight). Watch for her new classes. She is developing some really awesome new classes that are edgy and fun. Mark your calendar for Friday, February... 25 from 6-9 for her "Farewell- Welcome Party". members, former members, students, customers, are all invited.
Friday, January 7, 2011
News from the Shop
News from the Shop
New to the shop this year (Hey, it is 2011) is the book Stamped Metal Jewelry by Lisa Niven Kelly. This is a great book for beginners or anyone just looking for some fresh inspiration. It comes packed with fun projects, helpful photographs, and even a how-to DVD. In this book, Kelly goes step by step through each pro-ject and the tools you will need to complete them. It is amazing how much you can do with just some sheet metal and a couple of good tools.
Here at Pouncing Rain, we carry all the tools you will need to get started. From circle punches and stamps, to hole punching pliers and dapping blocks, we have got it. So come on in and check out this exciting new find as well as all the tools you will need to make personalizing your next project a snap.
NEW Featured Artist!
Of all of the changes the new year brings, the one I am most looking forward to is our new Featured Artist. Starting this month we will be showing the wonderful creations of our very own Hayley Bolstad. She has been a student and member of Pouncing Rain for years and we are overjoyed to see where her imagination has taken her. If you are as inspired by Hayley’s work as I am, you should make sure to check out her page on our website as well as the "Etching Without Acid" Workshop on January 30th.
Jess
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