Workshops

Join us in this fulfilling workshop, where you'll embrace the essentials of jewelry making, move metal with finesse, and emerge with two unique cuff bracelets, ready to adorn your wrists. Click on course image to read more.

Experience the magic of the laser cutting machine as a tool to etch your favorite photographs and imagery onto enamel. Click on course image to read more.

Mokume gane is a Japanese technique that bonds many layers of precious metals into a single piece that is worked into beautiful patterns. Click on course image to read more.

Learn the beautiful and unique art of Russian filigree by designing and creating a ring, pendant, or earrings from start to finish in sterling and fine silver. 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.

Flush and Gypsy style stone settings are two methods for incorporating stones seamlessly into jewelry designs, making for an incredibly secure fit and offering your stones a lot of protection. Click on course image to read more.

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

In this two-day onsite workshop, students will learn a fun and fast way to make unique shaped links by soldering and forming them in unique ways. Click on course image to read more.

This condensed 1-day course will focus on weave chains and hollow forms using a centuries old weaving technique. Click on course image to read more.

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.

 

 

Ring in the holiday season by forming and fabrication your very own jingle bell keepsake, learning fundamental forming skills in just one day! Click on course image to read more.

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.

Pulse arc welding lessons open from January through December. 

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. 

Micro pulse arc welding is widely known to be a useful tool to increase efficiency with basic bench tasks such as ring sizing, connections near heat-sensitive stones, and repairing porous castings. It works well on gold, silver, stainless steel, titanium, platinum

Micro pulse arc welding is widely known to be a useful tool to increase efficiency with basic bench tasks such as ring sizing, connections near heat-sensitive stones, and repairing porous castings. It works well on gold, silver, stainless steel, titanium, platinum, and copper, whether connecting tiny jewelry components or larger elements for small metal sculptures. Dates and times are flexible and can be adjusted directly with the instructor after registration has been completed.

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.