Holly Gage Contemporary Jewelry

Gage Designs by Holly Gage. The need to create is an essential and personal form of my self-expression. Miniature sculptures, pictorial scenes, and symbolic use of materials and imagery, replace words as a form of communication. I welcome others into my world by means of my jewelry designs in an effort to share an intimate slice of life, idealistic thought, or deep emotion. http://www.HollyGage.com

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Gage Designs Studio, Jewelry and Instruction by Holly Gage

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2024 AMCAW Innovation Grant Winner Holly Gage

Holly Gage has innovated techniques for adding heat resistant Cultured Opals in Jewelry that require hot processes such as firing the opals in place in Metal Clay and casting them in place in with Metalsmith techniques.

Bold design and delicate textures surround beautiful Fire in Place Cultured Opals. You’ll create intricate open spaces and surface textures with your rotary tool and various burs in the greenware stage of your Silver Metal Clay.

Then you’ll capture the allure of Heat-Resistant Cultured Opals having all the radiance and iridescence you love. These can be fired at 1650º F or 900º C without burning up from the extreme heat needed to sinter the Metal Clay. Learn the secrets to success. Metal Clay Tutorial, Clay Classes, Silver Metal Clay, Metalsmith Jewelry, Clay Artists, Pendant Tutorial, Jewellery Necklaces, Jewelry Techniques, Rotary Tool

Radiant Opal Pendant Tutorial by Holly Gage

Bold design and delicate textures surround beautiful Fire in Place Cultured Opals. You’ll create intricate open spaces and surface textures with your rotary tool and various burs in the greenware stage of your Silver Metal Clay. Then you’ll capture the allure of Heat-Resistant Cultured Opals having all the radiance and iridescence you love. These can be fired at 1650º F or 900º C without burning up from the extreme heat needed to sinter the Metal Clay. Learn the secrets to success.

The sales start on November 28 - Dec. 9th • 12 days of Auctions and Buy It Now Jewelry • Jewelry Classes • Lapidary Lesson • Cultured Artisan and Fire in Place Opals • Give-A-Ways including: Jewelry • Cultured Opals • Gift Certificates For each purchase or bid, your name goes into a nightly drawing at 10:15 PM. That’s 12 winners!! So bid early and bid often. Nov. 28 - 30 Holly’s sales at: start Dec. 1 – 9 Chris continues the fun at: Facebook.com/healing.phoenix.lapidary Opal Gifts, One To One, Artwork Ideas, Online Tutorials, Dec 1, Business Advice, 12 Days Of Christmas

Chris and Holly's 12 Days of Christmas Sale

The sales start on November 28 - Dec. 9th • 12 days of Auctions and Buy It Now Jewelry • Jewelry Classes • Lapidary Lesson • Cultured Artisan and Fire in Place Opals • Give-A-Ways including: Jewelry • Cultured Opals • Gift Certificates For each purchase or bid, your name goes into a nightly drawing at 10:15 PM. That’s 12 winners!! So bid early and bid often. Nov. 28 - 30 Holly’s sales at: start Dec. 1 – 9 Chris continues the fun at: Facebook.com/healing.phoenix.lapidary

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Warrior Scar Jewelry Workshops by Healing Phoenix Arts Program

Can you believe the pattern on this jewelry is from burn scars? They are both beautiful and powerful symbols of strength and resilience. Christopher and I are hosting a Warrior Scar Jewelry Workshop this year at a Pre-World Burn Congress session. We combine art with discussion as a healing modality by replicating a healed scar from their traumatic experience. From past events, the workshop is transformative. No prior skills are needed for the survivor.

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Personal Jewelry Retreat: Opals Queen of Gems with Holly and Chris Gage

This 3-day is about pampering you, from your artistic experience to the gourmet food. Holly and Chris Gage plan on feeding your soul, your creative spirit, and your need to learn and grow in a nurturing environment. Your workshop experience will be customized to your ability, and tailored to your skill level. Gage Design Studio is well equipped with Jewelry, Metal Clay, and Lapidary equipment, so if you can imagine it, you can create it.

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Radiant Opal Pendant with a Fire in Place Cultured Black Opals by Holly Gage

Your 3 Day Retreat Includes

Arrival on Friday morning, 10:00 am

Workshop Friday – Sunday, leaving Monday after breakfast

(3) Nights, (3) day event

(3) Breakfasts

(3) Gourmet Lunches

(3) Gourmet Dinners with dessert

2 - day Metal Clay Workshop with Holly Gage

1- day Lapidary Session with Chris Gage where you can make 3 – 5 cabs depending on size for a single student.

1 per student groups of 3.

24-hour Open Studio (Evenings are on your own

with no instruction)

Alfresco Dinner on our quiet, peaceful deck weather permitting.

Evenings on your own to explore.

Depart on Monday morning after breakfast

Register at www.HollyGage.com/retreats

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Personal Jewelry Retreat: Opals Queen of Gems with Holly and Chris Gage

Your 3 Day Retreat Includes Arrival on Friday morning, 10:00 am Workshop Friday – Sunday, leaving Monday after breakfast (3) Nights, (3) day event (3) Breakfasts (3) Gourmet Lunches (3) Gourmet Dinners with dessert 2 - day Metal Clay Workshop with Holly Gage 1- day Lapidary Session with Chris Gage where you can make 3 – 5 cabs depending on size for a single student. 1 per student groups of 3. 24-hour Open Studio (Evenings are on your own with no instruction) Alfresco Dinner on our quiet, peaceful deck weather permitting. Evenings on your own to explore. Depart on Monday morning after breakfast Register at www.HollyGage.com/retreats

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Stone Polishing

Jewelry Making Classes

Clay Techniques

Working with more Fire in Place Opals. This one is Cool Mint

I’m trying a new Fire in Place Opal. 5mm facet cut Cool Mint. I show using liquid frisket to act as a resist from the liver of sulfur around and behind the stone. Polishing with 3M bristle discs for a brushed finish. And finally burnishing with the side of a pin tool in the back for ultimate reflectivity. •

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Whimsical Secretary Bird

I finished a fun Whimsical Critter. She is a Secretary Bird. She is sassy and flirty and always wears her best feathers.

She is hollow, with a blown glass eye, hand sculpted in 960 Sterling Metal Clay, textured in the greenware stage by rotary tool-carving and photopolymer plates impressions of my own drawings. Her Sapphire briolette earring moves as your hips swing. Finally, she is worn as a pendant.

Classes are available at HollyGage.com/classes

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Whimsical Secretary Bird

I finished a fun Whimsical Critter. She is a Secretary Bird. She is sassy and flirty and always wears her best feathers. She is hollow, with a blown glass eye, hand sculpted in 960 Sterling Metal Clay, textured in the greenware stage by rotary tool-carving and photopolymer plates impressions of my own drawings. Her Sapphire briolette earring moves as your hips swing. Finally, she is worn as a pendant. Classes are available at HollyGage.com/classes

Lapidarist Chris Gage shares a trauma he suffered so intense that it altered the course of his life. As horrible as the whole thing was, there is something to be gained from it,” Chris says. His positive attitude throughout an incredibly challenging ordeal allowed Chris to use art for healing, both physically and mentally, He and his wife Holly Gage embark on helping others appreciate their own wounds through making jewelry and learning the first steps to post traumatic growth. Post Traumatic Growth, Post Traumatic, Delicious Meals, Second Chance, Rio Grande

Post Traumatic Growth

Christopher Gage, A Second Chance at Life Rio Grande: For the Love of Jewelers Interview

Lapidarist Chris Gage shares a trauma he suffered so intense that it altered the course of his life. As horrible as the whole thing was, there is something to be gained from it,” Chris says. His positive attitude throughout an incredibly challenging ordeal allowed Chris to use art for healing, both physically and mentally, He and his wife Holly Gage embark on helping others appreciate their own wounds through making jewelry and learning the first steps to post traumatic growth.

For the Love of Jewelers podcast: Holly Gage

Award-winning jeweler and certified metal clay instructor Holly Gage of Gage Designs is an active conference speaker and respected author on jewelry techniques. While her creative journey began at a young age, it wasn’t until mid-adulthood that Holly learned more about her dyslexia and how art helped her to find her voice. “My creativity, visual, spatial strengths, and problem-solving skills are the positive attributes; the flip side of dyslexia,” she says.