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**Canceled due to Covid-19 closure of BARN. 5/7/20 SK

This class has prerequisites, please see below.

Build a bomb-proof box clasp and improve fabrication skills while learning techniques that will move your construction and precision skills up a level. 

These aren’t just any ol’ box clasps. These are solid, adaptable to many shapes, and require no back-up clasp. This box clasp will not accidentally release. The clasp can be put into hollow forms to add a whole new dimension to your work. The new skills will push your metal-smithing to a whole new height. There is emphasis on precision measuring, cutting, filing and soldering. 

Details:

• This is an intermediate level class. 
• Prerequisite:  Must be proficient in soldering and have basic jewelry fabrication skills.
• $30 materials fee is included in the tuition.
• Feel free to bring a lunch. BARN has a refrigerator and a microwave, located on the lower level.

Instructor: Carla Fox brings the ideal balance of fine craftsmanship and wild imagination to her work. She has been a professional metalsmith/jeweler for over 20 years and her work has been featured and won awards in top juried art shows across the country. Carla loves to teach her craft, because she is the consummate student herself. Curious from childhood about tools and techniques and with an acute attention to detail, and a bit of engineering, she inspires that same joy and exploration in her students. Her skill in fabrication techniques include: fabrication, soldering tricks, design, hollow-forms, etching. The use of varied materials and techniques can be seen in her work at: www.carlamfox.com

For the past 13 years she has been director of Art in the High Desert Art Show in Bend, Oregon- www.artinthehighdesert.com.  AHD has been rated in the top 20 shows for sales for the last five years.Before that she was the director of a Portland, Oregon art guild’s show and sale-for 3 years, and helped produce an all-metals show with the Portland metals guild. Between doing shows and running a top-rated show, she knows this business from both sides of the booth.

Contact: Jewelry.Lead@BainbridgeBARN.org