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Teaching & Lectures



2026

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Imaginative Captures. 

4 days.
March 27-30
Cyd Rowley Jewelry. Kensington, Maryland

https://www.cydrowley.com/captures

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Imaginative Captures is designed to help you find new, more fluid and elegant approaches to incorporating stones or other objects in your work: to think beyond the traditional bezel and prong.

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Capturing is really a mindset that begins with the mechanics of conventional stonesetting and then reapplies those principles to develop new and more innovative solutions, tailored to the objects that students bring to class-- whether a stone, an enamel or that strange but compelling thing that you've been carrying around for years. 

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We’ll get up close and personal with the flex shaft, soldering and cold connections and we'll learn some tips and tricks that can help you find a new approach to your studio practice.

 

If you're looking to shake things up at the bench and in your head, Imaginative Captures may be just what you're looking for. 

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"Give a person a fish and they eat dinner. Teach them how to fish and they eat dinner forever."

It's in my nature to observe something and then apply those observations as widely as I can:
To generalize from the specific.
My goal as a teacher is to share that mindset and to help students to think beyond boundaries--whether self-imposed or 
installed by others. Longer classes allow for more experimentation and work time. Content is basically the same, although spontaneous discussions and demos often develop in these extended formats..

 

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