Instructor Becky Jan Sherrell will host a One-Day Workshop for Beginning Jewelry Making! Join us in the Hall on Foster on Tuesday, June 18th, 2024 from 10am - 12pm to create new jewelry pieces from old, forgotten pieces or from scratch with new, fresh beads.
Workshop Description:
Have a string of beads you inherited or bought long ago, but don’t wear anymore or an earring that’s long ago lost its mate? Or have always wanted to make jewelry? In this class, you can turn those old treasures you can’t bear to part with into a new pair of earrings and necklace. Or you can buy new beads to design and create a pair of earrings and necklace! Either way, you’ll have new jewelry pieces that you’ll enjoy for many years to come! No experience needed and tools are provided.
You’ll learn:
• The difference between earwires and head pins and gain confidence making a wrapped loop to make one pair of earrings.
• Bead stringing for a necklace and how to use crimp beads to attach a clasp.
• How and when to use the basic jewelry making tools: round nose pliers, chain nose pliers, flush cutter and crimping tool.
Workshop Date:
Tuesday, June 18th, 10am - 12pm
Workshop Size:
Minimum - 6
Maximum - 8
Workshop Registration Fee:
Members: $50
Non-Members: $60
Students must bring their own beads -- either new beads or older jewelry to take apart and redesign or a combination of new beads and older beads. The instructor will provide supplies and tools for the class but all students are required to pay a $17.00 Supply Fee to the Instructor at the beginning of the workshop.
About the Instructor:
As a young girl, Becky Sherrell enjoyed playing “dress up” and wearing old costume jewelry discarded by her mother and grandmothers - some of which she still wears today. At age ten, her family visited a glass blower in Murano, Italy. As she watched him create beautiful vases out of molten glass, she was mesmerized and dreamed of making beautiful glass pieces. Her love of glass took her to Georgia Tech where she received a degree in Ceramic Engineering.
After working many years as an engineer, she took a glass bead making class and was again mesmerized by hot glass! She quickly established a home studio to perfect her bead making and explore colors and shapes.
As an engineer, she enjoys the chemical reactions that occur when combining different glass colors to create beads. As a creative person, she loves mixing her beads with semiprecious stones, pearls, vintage beads, found objects, and metals whether sterling silver, copper, or base metal to create matchless pieces of wearable art perfect for everyday wear or when dressing up.
Since 2000, Becky has been making glass beads and jewelry and never tires of the creative process. Her love of jewelry making encouraged her to start teaching beginning jewelry making classes.