Welcome to the Metal Clay Academy
Here you will find everything you need to know about metal clay. We've collected together the best metal clay resources and information from the internet, metal clay teachers and experts around the World to provide you with this comprehensive source of information.
On the left there's a link to a page which explains what metal clay is. If you are a complete beginner, check out our metal clay beginners page. You'll find basic metal clay information, links to more metal clay resources and a useful article about how to work with metal clay without spending lots of money on tools and equipment. Advanced metal clay users will find inspiration and more challenging projects and information in these pages.
We've also collected lots of resources, suppliers and teachers of subjects allied to using metal clay. So if you're looking for beads to complement your metal clay creations, findings, wire or cord, glass, enamel or a whole host of other things, have a browse around.
Check back often to find out what's new in the world of metal clay, send us your questions and we'll add them to the FAQ page.
News!
25th April
Art Clay Worldwide Price Increase
Looks like this increase in price is going to be worldwide. Some Art Clay Distributors are not passing on the increase to customers though. Here is a public post from Jackie Truty of Art Clay World USA....
"Art Clay World USA is doing its best to keep the amount of increase down, so we will be absorbing a majority of the costs, choosing to make less profit rather than pass all of the increase on to our customers and instructors. In fact, in one or two cases, our silver prices won't go up at all. We will be announcing our increase on May 1st."
Art Clay in the UK will be increasing in price from 1st June by around 30%. Initial indicative pricing puts a retail 50g pack of Art Clay Silver 650 up from £109 to £142.50 including VAT.
The public announcement from Metal Clay Ltd, one of the UK distributors is as follows:-
"Change in Art Clay pricing - Aida has managed to keep the prices of metal clay as low as possible for a long time but, due to the historical high rate of the Japanese Yen appreciation against the US Dollar and Euro since last year, combined with the continuous high price of gold and silver and increases in manufacturing costs in Japan, they now need to be more realistic with how they price their products, in order to keep manufacturing and supplying us.
They’ve been discussing different solutions for recovery and protection of the current price. As a result, they’ve reached a decision to apply a new price change formula for Art Clay series products in order to be able to continue manufacturing and sales of their products.
Unfortunately, this means a price increase on the 1 June 2012.
Following this price increase, AIDA will review their prices every quarter of the year. The price review will be based on a couple of factors: if silver and/or gold prices has increased or decreased more than 10%, as well as major changes in the international currency exchange rate of JPY against USD and Euro. A decision will be made based on this and the prices will be adjusted accordingly. "
18th April
Art Clay World Biannual Conference not running in 2013
Art Clay World have just announced that they won't be running a conference next year. They are calling on the metal clay manufacturers to get together and organise a conference for the community or for some other entity to take this on. Read the full statement here.
27th March
The new issue of Metal Clay Artist Magazine is now in stock and available to order here. You can still buy back issues of the magazine here. If you missed some issues and would like to buy more than one, email us and we'll work out a special shipping rate for you.
The Perfect Present
If you're looking for the perfect present for the metal clay maniac in your life, have a look in our shops. We've now added a UK metal clay merchandise shop so whether you're based in the US or the UK, you can buy affordable metal clay related t-shirts, sweatshirts and other merchandise with fun metal clay slogans. Take a look now...
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