Cold Connection 1.5 & Enameling - Dolores Osborne-Hensley & Samantha Lazzaro

Cold Connection 1.5 & Enameling - Dolores Osborne-Hensley & Samantha Lazzaro

Class | Registration opens 12/2/2024 9:00 AM EST

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5/25/2025-5/30/2025
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$200.00

Cold Connection 1.5 & Enameling - Dolores Osborne-Hensley & Samantha Lazzaro

Class | Registration opens 12/2/2024 9:00 AM EST

ENAMELING & COLD CONNECTIONS 1.5

INSTRUCTORS:  SAMANTHA LAZARRO & DOLORES OSBORNE-HENSLEY

 

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, stones, or copper cut-out elements which will be selected by the student.  Class lab fee includes copper sheet, pre-cut bracelet and copper round shapes, 1 stone or fossil, 3 copper precut-out shapes, 5 metal bails, rivets, screws and the use of enameling powders to complete 6 to 10 projects the instructors will be teaching.  Additional stones, fossils, copper cut-out shapes and enameling powers (to take home) will be available for purchase.  Experience in both techniques is preferred, but not necessary.  A basic tool kit will be provided for student use, and both instructors will have tools, metal, enameling supplies for sale if students are interested.

Class Fee:  $200

Estimated Material Fee: $0 to-100

Consumables Fee:   $0

Prerequisite:  Enamel and Cold Connections Classes or Experience

Additional Class Offerings:

Osborne-Hensley, Dolores
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.

Lazzaro, Samantha
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.