Virtual Courses

Virtual Course
With Tim Lazure
March 19 - 26, 2024, Weekly on Tuesday from 10:00am – 12:00pm (2 days)
Tuition: $155.00
This demo-focused virtual workshop will provide students with the opportunity of honing their stone setting skills as instructor Tim Lazure masterfully leads them through a variety of different types of stone setting techniques. Click course image to read more.
Virtual Course
March 19 - 26, 2024, Weekly on Tuesday from 6:00pm – 8:00pm (2 days)
Tuition: $155.00
This is Part 2 to Solder Savvy, a two-part virtual course on soldering from the ground up! Click course image to read more.
Virtual Course
With Deanna Pastel
March 20 - 27, 2024, Weekly on Wednesday from 6:00pm – 8:00pm (2 days)
Tuition: $155.00
This demo-focused virtual course is designed to get you proficient in riveting, a cold-connection staple in the metalsmithing field that's a value in any jeweler's arsenal of techniques. Click course image to read more.
Virtual Course
With Charles Lewton-Brain
March 27, 2024 - April 10, 2024, Weekly on Wednesday from 6:00pm – 8:00pm (3 days)
Tuition: $230.00
Foldforming is a contemporary, rapid, easily learned method of shaping sheet metal with hand tools while creating intricate shapes and forms. Click course image to read more.
Virtual Course
With Deanna Pastel
April 6, 2024, Saturday from 12:00pm – 3:00pm
Tuition: $115.00
The focus of this course will be placed specifically on forming principles with intent to further student's understanding of how to move metal in such a way as to create beautifully intricate flower forms. Click course image to read more.
Virtual Course
April 8 - 22, 2024, Weekly on Monday from 10:00am – 12:00pm (3 days)
Tuition: $230.00
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.
Virtual Course
With April Wood
April 8 - 15, 2024, Monday from 6:00pm – 8:00pm (2 days)
Tuition: $155.00
We often think of welding as an industrial process, utilized on a large scale or for structural fabrication. This demo-focused virtual course, part 2 in a 2-part series with April Wood, will introduce students to the oxy-acetylene welding for steel jewelry. Click on course image to read more.
Virtual Course
April 12 - 19, 2024, Weekly on Friday from 10:00am – 12:00pm (2 days)
Tuition: $155.00
In this virtual class, part 1 of a 2-part series, we will make boxes and containers with the most perfect little friction and bayonet lids you've ever seen! Round, square, irregular - oh my, so many options! Click course image to read more.
Virtual Course
With William Vanaria and Lindsay Minihan
April 12, 2024, Friday from 10:00am – 1:00pm
Tuition: $115.00
In this information-dense course, join William Vanaria and Lindsay Minihan as they cover essential surfacing techniques using rotary and hand tools to add texture, intrigue, and visual complexity to your jewelry. Click course image to read more.
Virtual Course
April 20 - 21, 2024, Daily from 10:00am – 12:00pm (2 days)
Tuition: $155.00
This 2-day virtual workshop will focus on an ancient Etruscan style braided ring! Click course image to read more.
Virtual Course
April 26, 2024 - May 3, 2024, Weekly on Friday from 10:00am – 12:00pm (2 days)
Tuition: $155.00
In this virtual class, part 2 of a 2-part series, we will make boxes and containers with the most perfect little friction and bayonet lids you've ever seen! Round, square, irregular - oh my, so many options! Click course image to read more.
Virtual Course
With Brie Flora
April 29, 2024 - May 1, 2024, Monday and Wednesday from 10:00am – 12:00pm (2 days)
Tuition: $155.00
This is not your typical Stacker Ring workshop! In this demo-focused virtual course, students will learn to improve on their small scale fabrication and will additionally learn techniques to add their own personalized flair to a series of stacking rings! Click course image to read more.
Virtual Course
With Matthieu Cheminée
April 30, 2024 - May 7, 2024, Weekly on Tuesday from 10:00am – 12:00pm (2 days)
Tuition: $155.00
Ready for a virtual get-away?! Filigree is a common technique in West African countries and is a specialty of Senegalese jewelers. Join Matthieu Cheminee in this demo-centered virtual workshop, as you learn to make traditional West African filigree rings. Click course image to read more.
Virtual Course
May 1 - 15, 2024, Weekly on Wednesday from 10:00am – 12:00pm (3 days)
Tuition: $230.00
This demo-focused virtual class will focus on adorning the hand, as students design and make Argentium bangle bracelets while exploring a variety of designs and techniques such as hammer texturing, forging, forming, and fabrication.
Virtual Course
With Logan Woodle
May 6 - 20, 2024, Weekly on Monday from 10:00am – 12:00pm (3 days)
Tuition: $230.00
Pewter’s low melting and flow points present metalsmiths with unique opportunities to create complex compositions by combining it with traditional nonferrous alloys. Click course image to read more.
Virtual Course
May 7 - 14, 2024, Weekly on Tuesday from 10:00am – 12:00pm (2 days)
Tuition: $155.00
Ready for a technical jewelry challenge?! In this demo-focused virtual workshop students will learn how to create a ring with a free spinning kinetic element in the center - otherwise known as a "spinning ring"! Click course image to read more.
Virtual Course
With Aurélie Guillaume
May 9 - 16, 2024, Weekly on Thursday from 6:00pm – 8:00pm (2 days)
Tuition: $155.00
Bring your drawings to life in this demo-focused virtual workshop! Students will learn how to illustrate with enamel by combining a variety of simple techniques such as wet packing, color gradation by sifting, fine line black, metallic lusters, and inlays with a focus on opaque colors. Click course image to read more.
Virtual Course
With Nanette Pengelley
May 15 - 22, 2024, Weekly on Wednesday from 10:00am – 12:00pm (2 days)
Tuition: $155.00
In this demo-focused virtual course students will explore various fiber techniques for embellishing jewelry, both traditional and non-traditional. Click course image to read more.
Virtual Course
With Marilyn da Silva
May 17 - 24, 2024, Weekly on Friday from 1:00pm – 3:00pm (2 days)
Tuition: $155.00
This virtual workshop will explore the use of gesso and colored pencils on metal as a method for applying color onto metal. Click on course image to read more.
Virtual Course
With Bonnie Bishoff
May 18 - 25, 2024, Weekly on Saturday from 11:00am – 1:00pm (2 days)
Tuition: $155.00
In this demo-focused virtual workshop, Bonnie will demonstrate a variety of techniques that she has employed over the years in making some of her favorite cane designs, capitalizing on the unique qualities of translucent polymers. Click course image to read more.
Virtual Course
With Joanna Gollberg
May 21 - 28, 2024, Weekly on Tuesday from 10:00am – 12:00pm (2 days)
Tuition: $155.00
In this unique demo-focused virtual course, students will join master fabrication artisan Joanna Gollberg as she teaches how to fabricate custom prong settings to perfection using a torch with two direct gases and how to then prong-set their stones with efficiency and accuracy. Click course image to read more.
Virtual Course
With Brie Flora
May 21 - 28, 2024, Weekly on Tuesday from 10:00am – 12:00pm (2 days)
Tuition: $155.00
Powder coating has become a popular option in the contemporary jewelry making sphere for metalsmiths looking to add color to jewelry that is affordable, durable, and an alternative to enamel. Learn all the FUNdamentals in this 2-day virtual course! Click course image to read more.
Virtual Course
May 22, 2024 - June 5, 2024, Weekly on Wednesday from 10:00am – 12:00pm (3 days)
Tuition: $230.00
A three-session virtual class that focuses on using Argentium silver sheet metal to create a series of jewelry. Click on course image to read more.
Virtual Course
June 3 - 17, 2024, Weekly on Monday from 1:00pm – 3:00pm (3 days)
Tuition: $230.00
This three-session virtual class is designed for students ready to take the next steps in design and fabrication by learning to add gold to their work, with emphasis placed on their purse strings! Click course image to read more.
Virtual Course
With Ben Cooke-Akaiwa
June 4 - 11, 2024, Weekly on Tuesday from 10:00am – 12:00pm (2 days)
Tuition: $155.00
Scoring and bending is an easy way to add volume to sheet metal and an invaluable technique within a metalsmith’s arsenal! Click course image to read more.
Virtual Course
June 5, 2024, Wednesday from 10:00am – 1:00pm
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June 12, 2024, Wednesday from 10:00am – 11:00am
Tuition: $155.00
Add color and style to your jewelry making repertoire with resin inlay! Click course image to read more.
Virtual Course
With Bonnie Bishoff
June 22 - 29, 2024, Saturday from 11:00am – 1:00pm (2 days)
Tuition: $155.00

In this demo-focused virtual workshop Bonnie will share some of her tried and true methods for designing and building hand fabricated or modified findings paired with polymer clay components. Polymer layering techniques, ear wires, posts, simple wire working, and design considerations will all be explored. Click course image to read more.

Virtual Course
With Brie Flora
June 24 - 26, 2024, Monday and Wednesday from 10:00am – 12:00pm (2 days)
Tuition: $155.00
In this demo-focused virtual workshop students will learn to sift, cure, add multiple layers of powder without over baking, and effectively add color, patterns, and illustrations to the powder coated surfaces. Click course image to read more.
 

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