Kim Struve, a Senior Certifying Metal Clay Instructor in San Antonio, Texas, chooses industry leaders’ hands-on courses to accelerate her competencies. She has provided metal clay courses to adults and children in large [70] and small groups since 2011. Struve has great student rapport, as one opined, “Kim is an amazing artist with a big heart and open mind; ready to learn from every class she teaches.” Love, math and nature influence the designs and passion demands she share the FUNctional, unique and novel. Struve’s “Fold Lock” techniques resulted from a determination to create strong joinery, components, jewelry and art by folding dry metal clay. Kim developed Metal Leather fine silver precision strips to make it simple and affordable.