Easy as 1-2-3

Master the basic tools and techniques of jewelry making and, with individualized guidance from the instructor, create and execute your own original designs for pendants, earrings, bracelets, and chains. Learn how to clean and prepare copper, use a jewelers saw, pierce designs, rivet pieces of metal together, and more. Making your own wearable art is as easy as 1-2-3!

$35-$75

Emolyn Liden is an artist, musician, and dancer. She grew up in Brasstown, North Carolina and discovered her love of craft at a young age observing the artists in her community. She learned from her mother about raising sheep, natural fiber, and to knit without patterns which led her to spinning and natural dyeing. She designs knitwear inspired by texture and color, teaches people of all ages to knit, and displays her work at craft shows and exhibits. She is a graduate of the Professional Craft program in jewelry at Haywood Community College. She is interested in the cross-section of fiber and metalsmithing, how to create a softness in something structured like metal, and how to create sculptural art with knitting techniques. She has danced with the Cane Creek Cloggers of Chapel Hill; the Green Grass Cloggers of Asheville; Cape Breton step-dancing team, The Twisty Cuffs; and has been a dance instructor for kids in public school and at camps around the country. She regularly performs Appalachian old-time music and teaches at Warren Wilson College in Asheville, North Carolina. Learn more about her work at www.therovingknitter.com and www.lidenhandmade.crevado.com