Make delicate, textured bangle bracelets utilizing not-so-delicate blacksmithing techniques on copper and silver! Students in this two-day workshop will learn how to hammer-draw, planish and shape heavy gauge wire into these wearble forms. 

“Pick” up your date—or come solo--and “Stir” things up this Valentines holiday with a handcrafted cocktail and your own handmade cocktail pick or stirrer to go with it!  You will learn how to hammer, forge, shape, and embellish your own set of sterling silver cocktail picks or stirrers.  We will begin the evening with a demonstration of making a cocktail pick and stirrer, then you will practice making your own design with copper. Once you’ve perfected your design with the help of instructor Wendy Jo New, you will create your own set in sterling silver!

You've asked for it, so here it is…Chain Maille (and Scale Maille) Open Studio!  This class is designed for students with some chain maille experience who would like help finishing current projects, beginning new projects, improving techniques, troubleshooting weaves, or simply working on personal projects while spending time with other maillers.  Bring your supplies, tools, UFOs and project ideas.

Keum Boo provides a cost efficient means of introducing high-karat gold to jewelry designs while simultaneously adding texture, pattern, and color. Learn how to create your own foil and employ a variety of embellishment techniques.

Swing the door open to add hinge mechanisms to your work! Hinges are the focus of this intensive three-day workshop. Special attention will be given to simplifying the fabrication process for assured, secure results.

The ancient technique of granulation is demystified in this workshop. Granulation is the process by which small spheres of gold or silver are fused onto jewelry. Learn to make granules, properly prepare metal, set up a design, fine silver, and clean-up.

So much emphasis is often placed on designing a piece of jewelry around a beautiful stone, but what about the design of the bezel itself? This 3-day workshop investigates the sculpted bezel and how one can transform a stone setting from ordinary to extraordinary.

Pursue individual projects with questions answered by a professional jeweler. Finish up work hiding in your bench and get advice on new pieces. This class is loaded with great bench tips to guide students through projects with success.

Build upon the basic techniques covered in Jewelry 1 to open up design possibilities and create more complex pieces.  Discover some advanced soldering techniques, trickier cold connections, and strategies to design and produce jewelry. Students will set stones, fabricate hollow forms, and more!

Pursue individual projects with questions answered by a professional jeweler. Finish up work hiding in your bench and get advice on new pieces. This class is loaded with great bench tips to guide students through projects with success.

Pattern welded steel, otherwise known as Damascus steel, is typically used to make all manner of beautifully crafted sharp implements. In this workshop, we will take cut-off sheets of Damascus steel and create stunning cabochons.

This introductory course will focus on the design process and basic fabrication techniques of jewelry making and metalsmithing. In this class, students will begin with a sample project to practice design, layout and construction of a small decorative metal piece.  This will serve as a guide to practice using basic tools and techniques for sawing, soldering, texturing and polishing. Using these skills students will design and construct a custom pendant, ring and/or earrings. Additional demonstrations including bezel setting and riveting will be included during this course.

Champlevé is a French term that describes enamels that are inlaid into designs made of metal with higher fields and recessed compartments. One of many ways to achieve these surfaces is through a sustainable electrolytic etching process. Over the course of a three-day workshop, students will have the opportunity to learn how to modify drawings and designs to be compatible with Champlevé, apply resist to metal, etch, wet pack, fire, stone, and finish wearable works of art.

Earrings are double trouble but essential for a jeweler to make and master. This two day workshop will be all about designing and making different kinds of ear baubles. Learn the basics of soldering posts and forming ear wires to crafting hinges for click top hoops. Techniques covered will include but are not limited to finding balance and troubleshooting designs vs fabrication. Beginners and advanced students will benefit from group demonstrations and one on one guidance from the instructor in order to grow their ideas.

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, solder inlay, and more while creating one-of-a-kind jewelry!

This one-day class on metal clay will show you how to use nature and natural items as a basis for your metal clay jewelry.  Students will use natural items directly as a substrate or textural component of their work, as well as use 2-part silicone molding compound to create molds so that repeat items can be make from a single natural item. Students will take home a finished piece of silver jewelry, as well as a mold or two for future use. This workshop is for beginner to advanced metal clay students.

This Chain maille is a two thousand-year-old art form originally used to create garments worn for protection by warriors from Europe, the Middle East and the Orient. Modern approaches use these classical patterns of cold-connected jump rings for sculpture and jewelry. For these non-traditional applications, hundreds of new patterns have been invented.

The cuff is a classy and sassy piece of jewelry that can stand alone or be stacked with other pieces. Learning the basics of how to make this wardrobe staple will help progress your jewelry-making endeavors too. Students will learn how to design, size, cut, shape, anneal, and form strips of metal to entwine the wrist. Master the plain cuff first, then let your imagination take over — there are endless ways to customize. Techniques such as hammering, roller printing, stamping, and piercing will be covered in order to create all sorts of design outcomes.

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 and produce several of these finishes on pre-made ring bands. Students are also encouraged to bring in personal work to get feedback and suggestions on how to finish it.

Learn how to utilize a tool you use every day to capture beautiful images of your work!

During this workshop students will refine and become confident in their sawing skills through guided exercises and patterns.  Learn how to use your saw frame to your advantage and tackle those straight lines, curves, spirals, tricky angles, and more. 

Every jeweler eventually tires of buying typical stones and setting them in conventional settings. Come spend three days with Michael Boyd, and learn how to cut and polish your own cabochons with limitless shape, size, and color options.

Have you always wanted to know how to make jewelry but never had the time? This weekend course teaches the basics of sawing, annealing, soldering, filing, texturing, polishing, and stone setting.

Hooked on metal clay, but sick of using the commercial texture plates and stamps available to everyone? Join us and learn to create your own patterns and molds with limitless possibilities.

Next to form, the surface of an object may be what most defines it and gives it depth and character. But it seems that we so often come to rely on a handful of basic textures rather than developing our own creative surfaces.The goal of this fun and fast-paced 3-day class is to fix that, to uncover new ways to consider surface.

Investigate the possibilities of clasp design and fabrication in this 5-day workshop focused on designing your own custom clasps for necklaces and bracelets. Students will address challenges related to designing and mechanisms, while learning about various fabrication techniques including key and box clasps, soldering to stainless steel, puzzle solving, precision fitting and function. Participants can expect to lease with 2 clasp samples, one of which will be transformed into a front clasp necklace.

Through fabrication methods and proper soldering techniques, students will learn how create a wire prong setting to trap objects in their jewelry. We’ll also learn a variety of soldering techniques (such as sheet & wire applique, open filigree wire work, and simple kinetics) which will help students add surprising and delightful details to their work. Many other short cuts, tips & tricks, and techniques will be covered as we go along! Soldering small to large components will be a major part of this class.

Explore the infinite possibilities of synclastic and anticlastic forming. These techniques allow us to create complex three-dimensional structures from a single sheet of metal and seamlessly combine concave and convex curves.

Explore personal approaches to working with enamel, developing your technical and design skills in independent ways. A variety of techniques will be demonstrated and students can focus on those that interest them most. Use of opaque, transparent and opalescent color, foils, painting and drawing techniques, cloisonné, liquid enamels, torch firing and experimental explorations will be discussed as well as soldering before and after enameling. Both beginning and advanced students will be challenged to work at their own level of experience.

Precision pulse arc welding is revolutionizing the jewelry world. The welders utilize an electrode about the size of needle and all of the action happens under a microscope, which allows for precision welds similar to a laser welder. Unlike soldering, welding can happen right next to stones or other heat sensitive materials, making some designs that were previously impossible, and repairs that would have been a nightmare, a quick and easy reality.

Explore the natural world in this 5-day workshop that investigates how organic materials can be translated into through metal to create stunning pieces of jewelry. The instructor will be demonstrating forming, fusing, and forging techniques for creating form and dimension, while addressing applications of color through patina formulas, guilder's paste, and enameling. Students will be asked to consider the forms in nature that most inspire them, and to draw from those forms, colors, and textures to create their naturally inspired jewelry. 

Determine the best way to describe your product, identify potential clients, get work into the marketplace, and create a cost-effective marketing plan. From press kits to artist statements, pick up essential skills needed to promote a craft business.