Three Day Workshop — May 23-25, 2025 — $420

Ellen Prophater, the gallery director at Creative Journey Studios and the in-house artist and teacher, is bringing her latest ideas on mokume gane to a three day class to start the year’s classes at CJS. Using translucent clay and precious metal leaf, she has developed a predictable outcome to her mokume. She now takes advantage of 3D printed stamps created by Randy (our jack of all trades) to get repeatable results, and makes veneers that can be fashioned into jewelry or wall art.

Mokume gane is a metal working technique of making a wood grain effect with layers of metals that has long been used to make Japanese swords. It has long been an imitative technique using polymer clay and has been developed by many of the “masters” of polymer, giving a variety of results.