September Workshop:   Building your personal body of work - the raw, the elegant and the sacred

My Personal Studio: Screw Factory, Lakewood Ohio
SEPTEMBER 10th-14th, 2025
Workshop hours:10th-13th 10am - 5pm EST
14th 10am - 3pm EST

Join me in my personal studio for a rare, soul-forward, semi private workshop, exploring wire as a poetic language — a way to contain the sacred, honor the imperfect, and celebrate the raw edges of the world.

  

This is an opportunity for a few artists and jewelers to come to my studio and explore + build their own personal body of work and stories that accompany them. In this five-day journey, we will build architectural settings and sculptural containers using wire, sheet metal, and story. Inspired by forms from nature and lines from architecture, you’ll learn to create prongs, twists, and tension settings that hold space for the mysterious — stones, objects, relics, and memories that don’t fit into traditional frames.

We’ll move beyond technique and into presence.
 

You’ll learn to see structure as story and join with intention — to work in alignment with your materials, your mind, and your heart.

 

✧ WHAT YOU’LL LEARN ✧

+ Sculptural Wire Construction: Build small, wearable structures using negative and positive space. Layer wire and sheet metal with elegance, precision, and wildness.

 

+ Unconventional Stone Setting: Design raw, expressive prong and wire settings for dimensional materials —stones, gems, mica, crystal, petrified wood, found objects, and sacred relics.

 

+ Innovative Metalworking Techniques: Forge, twist, solder, and shape wire using studio techniques tailored for both strength and beauty.

 

+ Intuitive Design: Compose with restraint and resonance. Learn how to let the object lead — to build forms that reveal instead of concealing.

✧ THE STUDIO EXPERIENCE ✧

This is a sacred build. To support your creative fire and nourish your spirit, we’ve designed this workshop as a whole-self experience.

 

INCLUDES:

+ Organic lunch from a local restaurant, light breakfast and coffee

 

+ Energy alignment sessions evening - with l Dr. Sam- You feel amazing afterwards and I call it learning your assets while getting in balance. 

                                     + somatic release

                                     +Intention setting and group attainment

                                     +Physical + energetic alignment for inspired creation

 

+Bench + torch setup provided (please bring your personal pliers + a few small tools)

✧ WHY THIS MATTERS ✧

Some stones cannot be held by bezels.
Some truths cannot be told in straight lines.

 

This is a workshop for those who walk the road less traveled in art —
for those building jewelry that feels like a transmission, a totem, a prayer. Those who want to dig deep into Building your personal body of work. feel your own stories in your work. 

 

This style of raw wire architectural setting has been celebrated in high fashion, museums, and major gallery exhibitions. My own work in this style was honored with an award at Milan Fashion Week 2022.

✧ DETAILS ✧

Dates: September 10-14 , 2025

Location: Personal studio of Susan Lenart (13000 Athens Ave, Cleveland, OH) studio 380 

Cost: $1,450

Payment Options: Pay in full or 2 payments of $725

 

Address:

1300 Athens Ave, Studio 339
Lakewood, OH 44107


Fly into: 

Cleveland Hopkins Airport (CLE)


Lodging:

Susan suggests getting AirBnB or hotel in Lakewood. She recommends the Hilton Cleveland Downtown (see below). She doesn't recommend the Hilton at the airport.

Hilton Cleveland Downtown
100 Lakeside Ave. E
Cleveland, OH 44114
(216) 413-5000

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After a long time of molding and crafting, our high-class ceramics, I always have the perfect beauty you need.

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SOLD OUT

After a long time of molding and crafting, our high-class ceramics, I always have the perfect beauty you need.

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