Gale Schlagel offers PMC Classes

These are the current classes available from Gale, in addition to the classes listed at http://pmcconnection.com/education/class_schedule. (Gale is a certified PMC Connection Instructor.)

In addition there are classes on Gale's website listed that can be scheduled privately, including "Hollow Form Construction".  Just email Gale for info at galeschlagel @ gmail.com (You will need to remove the spaces in address.)

Level 1 Certification

Thursday and Friday, July 12, 13, 201

Saturday and Sunday, July 21, 22, 2012

Saturday and Sunday, August 18,19, 2012,

Saturday and Sunday, September 8, 9, 2012,

Thursday and Friday, October 11, 12, 2012

Saturday and Sunday, November 10, 11^, 2012

Saturday and Sunday, December  1, 2^nd, 2012

 — 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Stone Setting

Tuesday, August 7^, 2012,

Sunday, August 26, 2012,

Saturday, September 15, 2012,

Sunday, October 7, 2012,

Saturday, November 3, 2012,

Saturday, December  1, 2012    — 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Intro Day with PMC

Saturday, July 14, 2012

Saturday, August 25, 21012

Sunday, September 16, 2012

Saturday, October 6, 2012

Sunday, November 4, 2012

Sunday, December 2, 2012

 — 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

August KCPMC Guild Meeting - Keumboo!

Gesundheit! Oops....no wait. Keumboo is a metalworking technique, not a body explosion.

Tuesday, August 16, 2011 - Keumboo How To is the topic of Kansas City's PMC Guild meeting. Member Jen Finley will demo and teach you how to apply precious bits of real gold leaf to fired PMC.

You may watch the demo or actively participate with your own work. To play along, you will need to bring

• A fired, but unhandled, untumbled, unburnished, unpatina-ed, unmessed with piece of silver metal clay. A fairly flat piece will be the easiest to work on for a first piece. Pieces with low relief will turn out the nicest. (Copper and bronze won't work.)
• A tiny pair of scissors like embroidery scissors (optional if you want to cut out a specific shape).
• Tiny decorative paper punches.  I will bring some that everybody can use.
• An agate burnisher if you have one. I will bring extras.
• That's it unless we want to have people who are afraid to torch fire bring a small already dried piece that we can torch at the meeting.  The keum boo process is fast and easy, so people can bring as many pieces as they want to do.  I'll bring a hot plate, burnishers, punches, and gloves.
• Money (Jen has a $75 piece of gold leaf (about 3" square) which she's willing to share - cost will depend on how many people will divide the piece)

Info about the KC PMC Guild and directions to our meetings is on our website at http://www.kcpmcguild.org. 

To view some sample from member artist Gale Schlagel click here to go to her website.

 The Metal Clay Today website here has an intevriew with Gale and several more photos of her pieces using keumboo. As you can see from these sample pictures found with a Google search for keumboo, the gold application can be random or very specific.

There is a great online demo from Jewelry Artist Magazine that shows keumboo used with making hollow lentil beads...

Way to go, Gale!

 KCPMC Guild member Gale Schlagel recently donated one of her large PMC lentils with gold keumboo and crystal necklaces to a local charity auction - and it ended up on tv last week. Worn by NBC Action News anchor Elizabth Alex, Gale's piece caught my attention right away.

Here's the link to the story and video for a better view. Stamp Out Hunger drive brings 223,000 pounds of food to metro non-profit organizations

Gale has a website if you want to see more of her work. She has been featured or interviewed on Metal Clay Today and on REview.

Now, if only the news anchor had been wearing a sign that said "jewelry created by local artist member of KCPMC Guild"!!