Armory on the Square: Stamp Your Own Ornament

700 South Rosemary Avenue,West Palm Beach FL 33401

15 December, 2021

Description

Get in the holiday spirit with Armory Art Center and instructor Maria Camera-Smith. In this class, stamp patterns into your own copper holiday ornament. Students will have access to stamping tools, hammers, and steel blocks to personalize patterns, text, and texture on copper cut outs. Details: Best for ages 13 and upCreate one ornament for $10Create two ornaments for $15 By signing up for this event, you acknowledge and agree to be contacted by Related and its affiliates.About the artist: Maria Camera-Smith is a maker of jewelry, functional hollowware, and large wearable works, which focus on humankind's relationship with its environment. She uses traditional and contemporary metalsmithing techniques alongside precious metals, enamel, industrial, natural and synthetic materials. Camera-Smith is the current Artist in Residence in Jewelry & Metalsmithing at the Armory Art Center in West Palm Beach, FL. She earned her MFA in Jewelry, Metals, and Enameling from Kent State University, OH in 2021 and a BFA in Metalsmithing from Slippery Rock University, PA in 2015. Camera-Smith has also worked as an A level bench jeweler for Signet Jewelers. Her work has been exhibited nationally and is in private and public collections including the Brockway Center for Arts and Technology in Brockway, PA. Camera-Smith is a member of the Allegheny Metals Collective (AMC), Ethical Metalsmiths Students (EMS) and Society of North American Goldsmiths (SNAG).