Hey Wire Artists- We’re looking for your stories!

Email brandonh@wire-sculpture.com with your wire jewelry story, and you may be featured on Wire-Sculpture.com in an upcoming section!

We want to know:

• What lessons or experience would you share with beginning wire artists?
• What skills have you learned—including sales experience?
• How you learned to be more efficient?
• Where are you on your journey to reaching your goals?
• And anything else you’d like to share!

Please email brandonh@wire-sculpture.com with “My Story” in the subject line.

We’re looking for inspirational and interesting stories from our fans, so we can keep the flow of creativity and education flowing through our customers.

We’re looking forward to reading your stories!

Breaking News: Dale “Cougar” Armstrong is one of our Tucson 2012 Instructors! Discover Dale’s wire wrapping classes here: Dale Armstrong Course Listings

Dale "Cougar" Armstrong is the Education Consultant for Wire-Sculpture.com. A die-hard rockhound, lapidary, and wire jewelry designer, instructor and author, Dale credits her mom for spurring the main interest that led to Dale’s chosen career. Her mother was an avid rockhound and many, weekend family adventures involved traipsing through the White Mountains of New Hampshire in search of abandoned pegmatite mines. This is where Dale’s fascination with, and education of rocks and minerals began, some 40 years ago.

Dale/Cougar, has a diverse art background, training in two-dimensional art with Carl Haskins of Vermont, and William Keyworth of New Hampshire. She also spent several years receiving personalized instruction with Karl Drerupe, renowned cloisonné and repossé artist. Dale attended the University of South Florida where she studied fine arts and geology. She worked as a technical, advertising artist for several years, ‘before the age of computers’.

Under her studio name of Cougar’s Creations, Dale displays her works at juried art shows, where she has taken many awards. As a featured artist, Dale has been interviewed on live television and has works for sale in museums and galleries. Dale “Cougar” Armstrong is a regular contributor to Step-by-Step Wire Jewelry magazine and has been published in The Wire Artist Jeweler, Bead Unique and Art Jewelry magazines. She is a frequent instructor at Lapidary Journals’ BeadFest events, and has made a series of instructional DVDs, produced by Jewelry Television. As an instructor, she conducts workshops in her personal studio and by request, travels to teach classes at beadshops and other events nationwide.

Dale’s newest success is her recently published book entitled: Wirework: An Illustrated Guide to the Art of Wire Wrapping.