{"id":2505,"date":"2014-01-29T19:18:38","date_gmt":"2014-01-29T19:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soigne.ca\/?p=2505"},"modified":"2014-01-29T19:18:38","modified_gmt":"2014-01-29T19:18:38","slug":"soigne-welcomes-andrea-roberts-new-teacher-and-her-lost-wax-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soigne.ca\/blog\/2014\/01\/29\/soigne-welcomes-andrea-roberts-new-teacher-and-her-lost-wax-class\/","title":{"rendered":"Soigne welcomes Andrea Roberts, new teacher and her Lost Wax class."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder Soigne is very thrilled to welcome <strong>Andrea Roberts<\/strong> and her new class <strong><a title=\"Andrea Roberts\" href=\"http:\/\/soigne.ca\/about\/lost-wax-new\/http:\/\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wax Carving\/ Lost Wax for Beginners<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Andrea<\/strong>, a certified goldsmith, studied at the prestigious <strong>College for Goldsmiths in Pforzheim<\/strong>, Germany. After her graduation in 1989 and working in the trade she moved to Vancouver 1996 where she established her own studio.<\/p>\n<p>Since 1999 she is teaching intermediate and advanced Jewelry Techniques to aspiring students at <strong>VSB Continuing Education<\/strong> and private study programs for all levels in her studio. The same year she became a <strong>Circle Craft Coop<\/strong> member selling her art work at the Granville Island store.<\/p>\n<p>Her love for unusual and rare Brazilian gems are often incorporated in her designs. <strong>Andrea<\/strong> addresses her work to people who claim jewelry as a formal idiom of their own and is specialized in one-of-a-kind designs.<\/p>\n<p>To Andrea, art is a reflection of a person\u2019s soul. Her own inspirations are drawn from nature, materials, forms and people. She uses techniques such as roller-printed textures to transform and shape her sculpture like jewelry to give a piece character and depth.<\/p>\n<p>In 2002 her piece \u201cflower of the universe\u201d was given to the <strong>Queen of Norway<\/strong> by former Governor General<strong> Mrs. Adrienne Clarkson<\/strong> as a present of state representing <strong>Canadian Arts and Craft.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I am excited to be invited to Octopus Studios in collaboration with Beata Kacy\/Director sharing some <strong>25 years<\/strong> of my professional experience in the jewelry making and designing field and 15 years of mentoring aspiring students exploring their creative potential with fun and never ending curiosity.<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_1_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soigne is very thrilled to welcome Andrea Roberts and her new class Wax Carving\/ Lost Wax for Beginners &nbsp; Andrea, a certified goldsmith, studied at the prestigious College for Goldsmiths in Pforzheim, Germany. After her graduation in 1989 and working in the trade she moved to Vancouver 1996 where she established her own studio. Since [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,18,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-classes-and-workshops","category-general","category-guest-teachers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soigne.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/soigne.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/soigne.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soigne.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soigne.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2505"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/soigne.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2517,"href":"https:\/\/soigne.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2505\/revisions\/2517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soigne.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soigne.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soigne.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}