

Symposium Classes 2012
Awaken Your Creativity
Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Catches, Findings & Mechanisms
Chasing, Engraving & Saw Piercing
Chasing and Repoussé
Fold Forming
Gem Carving
Inventive Forming
Multiples, Dies, Patterns, and Keum-boo
Prepare for Success
Surfaces
Stone & Metal
Stone Setting & Saw Piercing
Torch Fired Enameling
with Gregoré & Jennifer Morin
| April 23-27, 2012 from 9 am - 5 pm | $999 + $110 kit |

Ever wondered what it takes to create a line of jewelry, design award-winning pieces, be inspired by the world around you, and use it in your work? Two outstanding, award-winning instructors will teach you how to open creative doors, solve problems, and become a jewelry designer. The class combines lectures, guided exercises, individual exploration, group discussion, and skill building that is accessible and fundamental to the novice, key to those building on past experience and invaluable to those farther along the path. The class is organized into the five essentials of creative success: Imagination, Seeing, Drawing, Designing, and Believing. Learn how to create a personal “jewelry journal.” Discuss and learn foundation principles of design, drawing, and coloring. Learn to render dimensional jewelry designs with gemstones using watercolors and colored pencils. Design a collection of original jewelry. You will gain confidence and learn to trust the artist within you. This class provides the tools and environment to identify your style and create new work, as your unleashed creativity soars!
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Gregoré Morin is a Canadian-trained master goldsmith and jewelry designer. He has won 12 AGTA Spectrum awards for jewelry design, 2 MJSA awards, the AJDC New Talent Contest and JA’s Mort Abelson New Designer of the Year Award. All work is designed and hand made by Gregoré with the utmost care and attention to detail. Gregoré and Jennifer Morin are married and share a studio in Santa Barbara, California. Visit gregorejoailliers.com.
Jennifer Morin is a London-trained master goldsmith and jewelry designer who received High Commendations in her final examinations. Jennifer has an MFA in metals under the tutelage of German-trained Dieter Müller-Stach, as well as a California High School teaching credential. Jennifer is the in-house designer at Silverhorn Jewelers in Santa Barbara. She has won 4 AGTA Spectrum awards and was an AJDC New Talent Contest runner-up. Visit jenniferjoailliers.com.