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Join us for an afternoon of creative learning while making a charming owl with polymer clay. The Mokume gane technique is magic, no matter how many times you have discovered it before. Seasoned artist and author Barbara McGuire will offer her unique approach to this millennium old technique. The secrets lie in the ingredients and design building processes.  You will also learn to transfer or mold the owl face. Class project will feature a keychain pendant, or fan pull etc. 

All skill levels. 

$75 all materials included. Held 4/26/2025, 12-4pm in the Satellite Studios at Mars Landing Galleries, Mars Hill, NC

Enhance your wearable creations with basic wire wraps and links.  This is a timeless skill set! We will work with varying gauges of wire to produce eye pins, spiral headpins, jump rings, spiral links and caged beads. Examples will be working mainly in copper with sterling optional (additional charge).   

 Instructor Barbara A, McGuire is the author of Wire in Design (2001) and endorses 'linking' skillsets to enhance a variety of unique media including polymer and ceramic. All skill levels. 

$75 pp. Supplies and tool use included.

Thursday April 25, 6-9pm High Country Ceramics

Reservations, please call 828-284-5760

 Join Barbara McGuire as she introduces creatives to the mystique of painting with beeswax (encaustic). This workshop teaches Barbara's unique methods of capturing abstract versions of popular flowers. If flowers aren't your thing - you are welcome to paint abstract graphics, hearts or mountains! The 'Canvas' is a wooden panel or ceramic tile.  Class is held at High Country Ceramic Arts (located on Hwy 19) in Burnsville, NC.  All skill levels. 

$100 per person.  All materials and tools supplied. Limited enrollment. 

Sunday June 1, 1-5pm.

Please contact (828) 284-5760 for reservations.

 Join Barbara McGuire as she introduces creatives to the magic of metal clays.  This workshop teaches basic skills in copper metal clay.  Class is held in two sessions, at High Country Ceramic Arts (located on Hwy 19) in Burnsville, NC. Sessions are Thursday March 27, 6-8pm and Sunday March 30 1-4pm. The moldable metal Copper Art Clay is cured in the carbonless open fire kiln technique. Projects available include pendants, personalized components or earring components (findings available).  All materials supplied. All skill levels. 

 @ $160 per person.  Materials (50 gr. copper clay) and tools provided. 

Please contact  (828) 284-5760  for reservations