Celie Fago Masterclass
Hinges for PMC: New and Advanced Techniques
This is a five day masterclass due to run in 2010.
Make a wearable piece and a box.
Learn the latest techniques developed by Celie for making precision hinges in PMC. Topics covered include tear away technique to make unique textures for use with metal clay, and also to generate ‘clay papers’ to use decoratively in your work.
You’ll have time to explore one and two-sided texturing, hollow forms and box construction.
Hinge types include- rolled and drilled handmade tube, extruded, fine silver tube, fused wire coil hinges, miniature hinges and catches, hinges on unusual shapes, wire and ball hinges, various bracelet hinges, and (unique to PMC) textured hinges.
Celie Fago teaching at MCSJ
You’ll develop an understanding of the intricacies of attaching hinges to your work with precision and imagination and of engineering them so they function properly as you construct both a wearable piece and a box.
This workshop is Skill level 3 for metal clay and Skill level 1 for metals as it contains some rudimentary metalsmithing: Saw use, a few different tools, riveting, and fusing fine silver.
Celie Fago
Celie Fago has been a professional artist and writer for 35 years. She studied painting, printmaking, and sculpture at UVM, Mass College of Art, and Tufts, and metalwork at the League of NH Craftsmen where she apprenticed to a classically trained metalsmith. Her widely exhibited jewelry, combining Precious Metal Clay with polymer clay and metalsmithing, is distinguished by elegant design, resonant color, and attention to detail. She is highly regarded as a generous teacher and as an innovator in the combination of these materials. She is one of nine Senior Instructors for the Rio Grande Rewards Program. The author of numerous articles on PMC and polymer clay, she wrote the book Keum-Boo on Silver and co-authored Polymer Clay: Exploring New Techniques and New Materials. She also appears alongside Tim McCreight in the video “Push Play for PMC!”. When she is not traveling and teaching, Celie makes jewelry in her studio on her family farm in rural Vermont.
