Onsite Courses
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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