Class Listing

Pursue individual projects with questions answered by a professional jeweler. This class is loaded with great bench tips to guide students through projects with success. Click on course image to read more.

This weekly class provides training and solutions for a range of stone settings and techniques aimed at dressing up or enhancing your jewelry designs. Click course image to read more. 

So, you’ve created a beautiful pendant, now what? If you have taken the time on a special piece, don’t miss an opportunity to continue the design or make a statement by adding a bespoke chain, rather than using a commercial one! It doesn’t have to be complicated.  And extending the look with a custom chain can elevate the project as a whole.

Are you a jewelry lover ready to break into making your own shining jewels? This class will introduce the fundamental metalsmithing skills you need to let your creativity flow! Click on course image to read more.

For students with previous stone carving experience, this weekly class is an opportunity to work on independent LAPIDARY projects with answers and guidance offered by a professional! Click on course image to read more.

Pursue independent projects with answers and guidance offered by the instructor on a case by case basis. Technical demonstrations will respond to participants' interests and needs; cabochon stone setting, synclastic forming, raising, and fold forming are among the many possibilities. Click on course image to read more.

Learn the safe and effective use of a hydraulic press, as well as the best way to use pancake and impression dies in tandem with a press to create intriguing reliefs ready to be turned into or added to your jewelry. Click on course image to read more.

This weekly class presents students with the fundamentals of jewelry and metalsmithing skills. Among the many techniques we will cover, students will learn how to effectively shape, join, polish, texture, and patina metal. Click on course image to read more.

The primary goal of this class is to provide students with a grounded understanding in jewelry and metalsmtihing studio practices and the foundational hand skills necessary for working successfully with non-ferrous metals. Click on course image to read more.

This class will teach you how to expand and leverage your basic metalsmithing skill set to the next level. Click on course image to read more.

Are you a jewelry lover ready to break into making your own shining jewels? This class will introduce the fundamental metalsmithing skills you need to let your creativity flow! Click on course image to read more.

Jewelry 2 presents projects designed to expand student's skill sets and solve setbacks with finishing and soldering. Practice both flush and tube setting for faceted stones, form a hammered cable link chain, add pattern and color to metal, and much more!

This information-dense virtual workshop explains metal structures, annealing, firescale, melting, alloying, and much more with just enough science to improve your metal working without getting TOO nerdy! Click on course image to read more.

In this one-day onsite workshop students will get a thorough crash course in bezel tube settings while making fun sparkly earrings! Click on course image to read more.

In this workshop, students will learn how to cut and shape a handmade cabochon out of a rough stone and then how to turn it into a silver ring. Click on course image to read more.

Soldering is a fundamental metalsmithing skill. Are you interested in learning all you need to know? Then this virtual class is for you! Click course image to read more.

The first in a three-part series, this is a demo-focused virtual class that focuses on using Argentium silver wire and understanding the process of fusing in multiple gauge thicknesses to make a variety of work highlighting the element of line and line work. Click course image to read more.

Explore ways of adding color, dimension, and texture to your work with stone layering techniques taught by a master in the field! Students will learn important tips for creating custom fit bezels, see his steps for drilling holes into stones, and learn to create mountings with tube rivets. Click course image to read more.

Create a variety of unique experimental castings to incorporate into your jewelry, along with the know-how to make more! Click on the image to learn. more.

With a focus on Argentium fusion and torch use, learn to design and make several earring styles with varying combinations of hoops and links that make your earrings wiggle, pivot, and become a focal element!

In Stackable Rings you’ll learn to make a stack of hand-textured sterling silver rings, complete with an array of bezel-set cabochon stones or metal accents. Click on course image to read more.

2-day intro-level workshop leaving students with a collection of unique silver bangles and a strong understanding of both forming techniques and properties of metals used.

This demo-centered virtual class will focus on numerous wire twisting techniques for rings and bracelets. Witness the magic of transforming simple wire into intricate wearable patterns! Click course image to read more.

If you have experience in jewelry or metalsmithing and want to explore the possibilities of enameling, before taking an intensive course, this workshop is for you! Click on course image to read more.

In this demo-focused virtual workshop, students will learn the fundamentals of moving metal using multiple hammering techniques. Skills and demonstrations will focus on how to taper and spread wire stock into various shapes, how to "scroll" wire using both pliers and hammer methods, as well as basic fold-forming techniques for creating unique shapes including leaf and flower forms. Additional demonstrations will teach students how to construct simple 3-dimensional flower forms, as well as soldering techniques.

2-day project-based workshop exploring best practices for separating out usable precious metals from scrap, how to melt it down, cast an ingot and turn that into usable stock.

Create timeless pearl strands in this beginner friendly course. Click on course image to read more.

This condensed exploration of metalworking fundamentals is perfect for those who have always wanted to learn jewelry making but never had the time. Saw, anneal, solder, file, texture, create inlay, and more while creating one-of-a-kind jewelry! Click on course image to read more.

In this demo focused virtual course, learn how to make numerous simple cane design and then build off this knowledge with progressively more complex cane patterns. Click course image to read more.

In this demonstration-format workshop, students will be introduced to a collection of tools and techniques, from simple to elaborate, that have been developed over the centuries to address the challenge of holding our jewelry work. Click course image to read more.

In this demo-focused virtual workshop, students will learn the ins and outs of hammering a metal rods/wire into structural and decorative elements called rivets. Demos will focus on ;both small and large, and in two variations used most commonly in jewelry and metalsmithing - flush rivets and mushroom rivets. Click class image for details.

This hands on demo class will take you through the step by step process of creating a Florentine chain.

Create various textures and twists on both sheet and wire! Using hammers and the rolling mill, students will learn how to create interesting and beautiful textures on metals.

Learn the terminology, principles, and forms you will need in order to ensure that your business is in compliance with US federal law, as well as gaining an understanding of the overall financial health of your business! Click the image to learn more -

This demo-centered virtual class will focus on the design and creation of objects for dining, with specific emphasis placed on the design and history of spoons. Techniques such as forging, forming, fabrication, fusing and surface embellishment will be demonstrated. Click course image for details.

What’s better than a tube set gemstone ring? A stack of them! This virtual course will focus on fabricating a set of tube set gemstone and sterling silver rings that can be stacked together or worn solo on different fingers! Learn to add a contemporary element and extra dimension to your stacking rings with gemstones and varying tube setting heights! 

In this 3-session virtual course refine your skills and learn expert shortcuts and tips for fabrication and design - take your work to the next level!

Hone your fabrication skills and make a custom set of utensils for your kitchen! Joy will show various hammer textures that can be added to give character to flatware.

In this intermediate level virtual chain maille course, students will learn the Tank Treads weave. This weave produces a flat, dense band that is appropriate for bracelets, rings, belts and watch bands. Click class image for details.

During this one-day course, participants will be turning a found beach treasure into beautiful pieces of jewelry. Students will learn how to cut, drill and carve into their glass or stone, while adding silver accents to make a pendant. Click course image to read more.

For those interested in documenting their jewelry work for selling, marketing, and exhibiting, this course teaches how to take publishable, quality images rapidly using limited equipment. Click on course image to read more.

Applying the right finish to a piece of jewelry is one of the most important aspects of creating successful work. There are countless ways to finish jewelry, from the flawless mirror finish seen in commercial jewelry, to the matte brushed finish popular with many art jewelers. In this workshop, students will learn industry level tips, tricks, and techniques, while producing several of these finishes on numerous ring blanks. Students are also encouraged to bring in personal work to get feedback and suggestions on how to finish it.

Looking to dip your toes in the vast waters of jewelry making and metalsmithing, but don’t know where to start? Look no further than this perfectly honed "crash-course" weekend. Click on course image to read more.

This is Part 2 to Solder Savvy, a two-part virtual course on soldering from the ground up! Click course image to read more.

Keum Boo provides a cost efficient means of introducing high-karat gold to jewelry designs while simultaneously adding texture, pattern, and color. Embellishment techniques such as roller printing and adding a patina, will also be demonstrated to enhance and emphasize metal surfaces.The class will be a combination of teacher demonstrations with ample time built in for student practice and fabrication. 

Rings, rings, rings! In this 2-day workshop, students will learn to fabricate numerous styles of rings, including a band ring with a set cabochon stone, a tube-set faceted gemstone ring, a 3-band intertwined Russian wedding band, and a spinner ring *time permitting!  Wendy will teach students to saw, file, use a torch to anneal and solder, hammer, form, polish, and many more fundamental and transferable metalsmithing skills that will result in some beautiful rings

In these paired half day classes, we will explore the classic Byzantine weave in the morning and then level-up in the afternoon to create a Persephone weave chain, which starts with a modified Byzantine cage. Take one class or both!

In these paired half day classes, we will explore the classic Byzantine weave in the morning and then level-up in the afternoon to create a Persephone weave chain, which starts with a modified Byzantine cage. Take one class or both!

The rolling mill will be the featured piece of equipment in this 1-day workshop. Students will focus on using the rolling mill while learning to add texture onto various pieces of sheet metal which will then be used in the fabrication of bracelets, rings, and earrings.

Tuition covers 6 hours of instruction and practice time with Wendy Jo New. These dates and times are flexible and can be adjusted directly with the instructor after registration has been completed. Please contact us at [email protected] if you have any questions. Click the image for more details!

Tuition covers 6 hours of instruction and practice time with David Baird. These dates and times are flexible and can be adjusted directly with the instructor after registration has been completed. Please contact us at [email protected] if you have any questions. Click the image for more details!