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 for 5 years.

• 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!