About Tonya
About Tonya
2026 Metalmorphosis: The Art of Filing & Texturing
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Tonya Davidson is an award-winning metalsmith, author, and speaker who has also been an educator of metals, glass and ceramics for over 34 years.
Her education and expertise:
She owned 2 paint your own pottery stores, Paint Yourself Silly, for 10 years.
She owned a marketing, branding and coaching business, Artful Success, where she not only taught online classes but was a full-service branding/website company. Not only does she have a college background in marketing, but she privately studied with several highly sought after marketing coaches, speaker coaches, author coaches and masterminds.
She owned a metals tool and supply company, Whole Lotta Whimsy, for 10 years with over 3800 different tools and 100,000 skus.
She was a senior teacher for Rio Grande for 10 years and has been teaching metals since 1996.
She has been published in several books as a chapter author including PMC Technic, PMC Decade and featured in numerous magazines such as Art Jewelry and Beadwork.
She has taken over 230 classes covering nearly all techniques in jewelry. Her work focuses on granulation, reticulation, fusing, surface texturing and gold applications. She has been a speaker at many PMC Conferences, International Society of Glass Beadmakers, the Enameling Society, International Society of Contemporary Ceramic Stores, PMC Conferences, and many more.
She has a bachelor of science degree in Interior Design and Marketing but her husband lovingly calls her the Life Efficiency Expert.
So when you take a class from her, you are really taking a class from so many masters (academic and production working jewelers) and that’s pretty unique!