Small Sculpture: Silver Clay Charms Sunday, February 9, 1 pm - 5pm Materials: $40.00 ; Tuition: $130.00 INSTRUCTOR: Kenya Diaz + Kenley Turner
Learn the basics of small sculpture through charm making with mixed media artists Kenya Diaz + Kenley Turner using the magical medium, Silver Clay! Silver clay is sculpt-able clay made out of real fine silver, that can be turned into any shape or form, and then fired. Learn jewelry basics like how to create and carve clay into shapes, use molds, and set dazzling stones. Experience the firing process, and understand how you can continue this process at home. Take home your beautiful hand crafted charms and a silver chain.
*Each student will receive a 10 gram package of silver clay, zirconium crystals, and a sterling silver chain.
Kenley Turner Bio:
Kenley Turner is a mixed-media visual artist and musician born and raised in Dallas, Texas. There, she attended Booker T. Washington High School for The Performing and Visual Arts to study and focus on guitar. Throughout her time there, she studied classical and contemporary guitar, played in several ensembles, and wrote original music. During this time, outside of school, she spent most of her time performing and in a rock band, she is a lead guitarist for the Bombs! The immersive exposure to the arts she received at Booker T. Washington introduced Kenley to many performance artists who combined music, performing, and visual art into a singular medium such as Chris Burden and Yoko Ono, which she became extremely interested in. From this point, she went on to study visual arts at Kansas City Art Institute and she graduated with a BFA in sculpture. As of now, she lives as a working artist in Dallas, Texas creating fashion, music, sculptures, and paintings as a means of world-building to promote imagination, self-expression, and personal liberation. She also is the studio manager at Oil and Cotton, a studio in Dallas that focuses on bringing art education to the community.
