About Tonya

Tonya Davidson is an award-winning metalsmith who has also been an educator of metals, glass and ceramics for over 25 years. She owned 2 paint your own pottery stores, Paint Yourself Silly, for 10 years, a coaching business, Artful Success, where she helped artists with their businesses and a metals tool and supply company, Whole Lotta Whimsy, for 10 years. 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. Her work focuses on granulation, reticulation, fusing, surface texturing and gold application.

She has a bachelor of science degree in Interior Design and Marketing but her husband lovingly calls her the Life Efficiency Expert.  So you can assume that she has scoured every book, taken over 185 classes with other leading experts and masters trained all over the world, and tried every tool she could get her hands on, so she could pass along that information to you. So when you take a class from her, you are really taking a class from so many and that’s pretty unique!