About Aberose™

In our online retail store, entitled Aberose Creations, we feature jewelry-making kits and tools plus offer Dichroic Glass instructions to help you create your very own handcrafted, one-of-a-kind, jewelry art creations.

Our present goal is to share what we've learned with you, in our ongoing Dichroic Art Glass Workshops.

Rose Marie's EDUCATION & PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

M.A. & B.A. DEGREES, Holy Names University and Mills College, Oakland, CA:

~ Dual Majors: Fine Art and Humanistic Studies
~ Concentration Fine Art Photography.

Art courses and workshops taken include: Art History and Humanistic/Cultural Studies from ancient to contemporary times, color, drawing, two and three dimensional design, etching, printmaking, stained glass, fine art photography, Web site authoring and the additional jewelry-making and photography workshops below.

wwwPMCConnection and wwwPMCGuild.com
Certified PMC I and II Instructor/Designer/Artisan


CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF ARTS, Oakland, CA - Metalsmithing Jewelry Classes and Workshops:

~ Beginng Metalsmithing,
~ Inlay/Cloisonne' Encrustation,
~ Jewelry Design,
~ Lapidary,
~ Rock Stars Workshop, Canadian Artist Donald Stuart
~ Trompe L'Oeil Surfaces (Lapidary and metal-smithing),
~ Two Ring Workshops plus

Fine Art Photography Classes and Workshops taken include both:

~ Black & White Darkroom Photography and
~ Color Photography
Taught by two of Ansel Adams' students: Chris Johnson and Wanda Hammerbeck.
(21 total college units in photography).

Other Workshops:

~ Dichroic Glass Fusing with Carol and Monty, Oakland BABE Bay Area Bead Extravaganza, CA Conference;
~ Dichroic-coated Glass Fusing Jewelry, Eugene Oregon Glass School;
~ Dichroic-coated Glass Fusing Jewelry with Mary Elin D'Agostino, El Cerrito, CA; and
~ Advanced Glass Fusing and Glass Slumping workshops with Marge Bougas, Cobb Mountain, CA. Plus
~ Sculpted Wire videos by Master Wire-wrapper Preston Reuther.
~ PMC Video workshops by Linda Bernstein.
~ Hattie Sanderson's Contemporary Metal Clay DVD Workshops (8 Hours).
~ Four-month series of PMC Textural Workshops (April through July 2005) with renown Instructor/Artist/Inventor Hadar Jacobson, Berkeley, CA.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS - Member of:

PMC Guild

PMC Connection

SFBA Silver Clay Group.

The Society of North American Gold (and Silver) Smiths (SNAG) - the organization for jewelers, designers and metalsmiths. SNAG publishes the award-winning Metalsmith magazine--the only magazine in America dedicated to the metal arts.

FAVORITE JEWELRY ART PROFESSIONAL SUBSCRIPTIONS:

Art Jewelry Magazine

Colored Stones Magazine

Lapidary Journal now called Jewelry Art Magazine

Studio PMC Magazine

Metalsmith Magazine