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Date(s) - 12/05/2020
11:00 am - 1:00 pm
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Lynette Andreasen Embossed Holiday Ornaments
Zoom Demonstration
Saturday, December 5th, 11AM to 1PM
(Zoom meeting information will be sent in a separate email before the presentation.)
Lynette Andreasen will demonstrate how to create fun and unique handmade ornaments this holiday season using the hydraulic press as well as low tech methods of embossing. Techniques covered will include fabricating your own embossing dies, embossing metal, using pancake dies with embossing dies, and some simple enameling techniques.
Lynette Andreasen is a jeweler and metalsmith originally from Tucson, Arizona, but currently living and working in Rio Rancho, New Mexico. She earned both a Bachelors of Fine Arts and Masters of Fine Arts, specializing in Metals and Jewelry.
She has exhibited her work at locations such as Mesa Art Center in Mesa, Arizona, the John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, the Society for Contemporary Craft in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and the Metals Museum in Memphis, Tennessee. Her work has also been widely published in publications such as American Craft Magazine, Art Jewelry Magazine, and two Lark Books; “500 Silver Jewelry Designs,” and “500 Necklaces.”
Aside from maintaining her own studio practice, Andreasen also works as an educator and currently teaches jewelry making at Central New Mexico Community College and FUSE Makerspace. She has also formerly taught at institutions such as Arizona State University, Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar, Central Arizona College, Baltimore Jewelry Center, Peters Valley Craft Center, and others. Lynette has two young children that she is raising with her husband, which keeps her very busy and perpetually exhausted, but when she does have free time she loves to garden, cook, bake, read, and play the ukulele.
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