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The New York Polymer Clay Guild is pleased to announce a workshop with Sandra McCaw . The event will take place Sept. 20-21, 2008 from 10am-4pm. Topic: The McCaw Cane. Learn the secrets of creating the magical “McCaw Cane” from the originator of this technique. Participants will create intricately patterned canes while practicing the execution of precise geometric canes. A variety of cane combining and manipulating strategies will be explored. We’ll look at alternative patterns, and uses for the finished canes. Students will construct a flower brooch. More details on the NYPCG web site: http://www.nypcg.org/workshops.shtml About the ArtistSandra McCaw majored in illustration and photography at the Boston Museum School and The School of the Worcester Art Museum, graduating from WAM in 1978. She worked as an illustrator, graphic designer and photographer in the corporate world for eight years.In 1994 Sandra began working with polymer clay as a creative medium. And, about one year later, she discovered a technique that bears her name, "The McCaw Cane". She is co-founder and past president of the Southern New Hampshire Polymer Clay Guild. Sandra has been a juried member of the prestigious League of New Hampshire Craftsmen (www.nhcrafts.org) since 1996 and served for four years as a juror of non-metal jewelry and polymer clay.
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