Cold Connection 1.5 & Enameling - Dolores Osborne-Hensley & Samantha Lazzaro
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COLD CONNECTIONS I.5 & ENAMELING
INSTRUCTORS: DOLORES OSBORNE-HENSLEY & SAMANTHA LAZZARO
This class is for students with a basic knowledge in both enameling on copper (kiln use & enamel powder application and cold connections (connect with rivets, Screws, wire, bails, and/or non-soldering prongs) processes. The class will have specific projects to pull together enameled pieces into cold connection designs with deviations of enamel colors selected by the student. The student will spend the first 2 days with the enameling instructor making the enameled pieces and the last 2 days with the cold connections' instructor, pulling the projects together. Friday will be a half day, finishing up projects and cleaning both rooms. The class will have kits for the projects and the student can select their favorite enamel colors and size of some projects (kits may have small or large pendant options). The class fee includes kits for 6 projects and the use of enameling powders. Additional kits will be available for purchase if the student is advanced in both enameling and cold connections and initial projects are completed within class time. The school has basic tool kits for student use, and both instructors will have tools, metal, enameling supplies and additional kits for sale if students are interested.
Class Fee: $150
Estimated Material Cost: $0-50
Consumables Fee: $0
Prerequisite: Enamel I and Cold Connections I
Dolores Osborne-Hensley
Dolores is an Air Force veteran, who traveled around the world, collecting sea glass, shells, stones, fossils, and semi-precious stones just waiting to be incorporated into wearable creations. After retiring from the armed forces, she opened The Wild Bead and Boutique, in Montgomery, Alabama, where she taught beading, embroidery beading, jewelry, and cold connections. Her first class at William Holland was cold connections with Kim St. Jean, where her love of manipulating metals into creative wearable art began. She is self-taught artist, but classes at William Holland have helped her advance her creations to a higher level. Dolores loves meeting and nurturing other artists and was a 12-year active member of the Montgomery Gem and Mineral Society and held the role of Vice President, Newsletter Editor, and Annual Gem and Mineral Show Manager, but recently transferred her membership to the Alabama Mineral and Lapidary Society, in Birmingham, Alabama to explore more rock digs, classes and meet other rock lovers. Dolores is a member of the Pike Road, Alabama Art Guild and teaches cold connection classes to the public and art guild members. Her other lapidary passions consist of rock hounding, cutting semi-precious stone slabs and shaping cabochons.
Samantha Lazzaro
Samantha (Sam) has vast experience in working with metal and enameling techniques. She teaches Enameling I and II, Fused Glass, and Metal Etching at William Holland. She has been beading since her teens and began working with glass and metal when she moved to Florida. Besides being self-taught, she has taken numerous classes at William Holland to expand her knowledge of the lapidary arts.