Current Issue

March 2008
Issue #21
Features
Midwestern Renaissance
While metal-arts programs across the country are facing budget cuts and closures, the faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee are leveraging a creative approach and a receptive community to make their metals program grow.
By Hazel L. Wheaton
A Conversation with Jack da Silva
The founder of the MAKER school talks about the current state of education and his own history.
What is a Teaching Artist
A career move that will allow you to make money, make a difference, and keep making your own art.
By Kristin Sutter
Cultivate a variety of techniques to build a hybrid pod pendant.
By Jeffrey Lloyd Dever
Shape your leaf forms two at a time to make perfectly matched pairs.
By Lilian Chen with Addie Kidd
Fuse silver to silver and fuse gold to silver to make a seamless sphere.
By Patricia Tschetter
Your paint: watercolor enamelsYour canvas: steelYour frame: metal clay
By Pam East and Jane Levy
Use basic fusing and simple wireworking to create a classic silver chain.
By Howard Siegel
Departments
From the Editor: Hazel Wheaton
Contributors: About Our Artists & Writers
Reader Forum
Your letters, your questions and our answers.
Book and Media Reviews
Which to buy, which to read, and which to avoid.
Product Reviews
What's new on the market and what's worth adding to the workbench.
Gallery
A collection of pieces to intrigue and inspire you.
Basics
Demonstrations and definitions of beginning jewelry-making techniques needed for the projects in this issue.
Contacts and Suppliers
Where to contact the artists and find the materials and tools used in this issue.
Shows & Workshops
A listing of events throughout the U.S.
Beyond Jewelry
Marie Frances Quinn's Greenhouse: a copper flower with a twist, created using jewelry-making techniques.

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