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Spring Challenge Celebration: ‘Charmed, I’m Sure’

Share the jewelry that you made for the Flourish Challenge and celebrate with other makers during a gathering in the Jewelry & Fine Metals Studio.

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Spring Challenge Celebration: ‘Charmed, I’m Sure’

Spring Challenge Celebration: ‘Charmed, I’m Sure’

Share the jewelry that you made for the Flourish Challenge and celebrate with other makers during a gathering in the Jewelry & Fine Metals Studio.

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Come celebrate your achievement with the other makers who stepped up and made a new piece of charm-inspired jewelry for the Spring 2026 Flourish Challenge, "Charmed, I'm Sure."

We'll exchange ideas, share experiences, and enjoy light snacks. And we'll announce the theme for the next challenge.

In fact, please join us whether you participated in this challenge or not. You might just get interested in the next!

Details

Please register by 11:59 PM the day before so we know how many people to plan for. 

Class Policies

Ages 14 and up are welcome.

Instructor
Joan Hammond

Joan Hammond began working in metal in 1994, when she started taking metalsmithing classes as an antidote to documenting computer software. What she discovered was a medium that not only used her training in painting, printmaking, and ceramics, but also opened the possibilities of creating art that can be worn. Family artifacts and history, plants and animals, and the textiles and jewelry of non-Western cultures inspire her current work, which she executes using various fabrication techniques, including chasing and repoussé. Hammond exhibits locally and nationally. Her work has been published in Metalsmith magazine’s Exhibition in Print. She is a member of the Seattle Metals Guild and an active volunteer and instructor at BARN.

Instructor
Karen Olch

Karen was born and raised in Pasadena, Calif., and graduated from the Los Angeles County College of Nursing. She earned her bachelor's degree from Chapman College and was an operating room nurse and manager at Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles until she married Christopher Olch, a Navy medical officer, in 1985. They lived in Maryland, California, Connecticut, and Japan before being transferred to the Pacific Northwest. They settled in Kitsap County in 1997 and on Bainbridge Island in 2017. Their adult son, Matthew, is a video game animator in the Seattle area. Karen has always loved to look at and collect jewelry, so when she took her first class in BARN's Jewelry Studio, she was hooked. She understands the importance of organization and working together to provide an atmosphere of safety, judicious use of resources, and enjoyment of the creative processes in crafting jewelry.

Instructor
Ann Lovett

Ann holds a Master of Fine Arts in printmaking from Tyler School of Art, Temple University, in Philadelphia and a Master of Fine Arts in poetry from Warren Wilson College in North Carolina. Her visual art practice includes artists books, printmaking, and photography, and her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. She has been the recipient of New York Council on the Arts and New York Foundation for the Arts grants, numerous artist residencies, and is represented in museum and individual collections. She taught photography at State University of New York in New Paltz, for 33 years and moved to the Puget Sound area recently from Ashland, Ore., where she also was a volunteer instructor with the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. In the Print & Book Studio, Ann can certify people to use the Takach etching presses.

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