One-Day Earring Workshop
Spend a day creating your own stunning earrings! In this hands-on workshop, you’ll learn to make French ear wires, dangles, hoops, and more using wire, sheet metal, and beads. With just a few simple hand tools and a touch of imagination, you can craft beautiful, personalized pieces. Materials include silver-plated, sterling, gold-filled, and copper wire. $25 materials fee, payable to instructor.
Discover Silver Metal Clay Workshop: Session A
Learn to work with Silver Metal Clay, a versatile material that feels like clay but becomes pure silver when fired. This workshop covers forming, texturing, firing, finishing, and flush setting of gemstones (optional stones available for purchase). Perfect for beginners and artists of all kinds—no prior jewelry experience needed. Finish and take home your own unique silver jewelry pieces while exploring the endless design possibilities of this exciting material.
Materials fee of $105.00 is payable to instructor at class and includes metal clay, use of tools, supplies and handouts. Materials fee of $100 is payable to instructor at class and includes metal clay, use of tools, supplies and handouts. This class has a required materials list.
Metals & Jewelry: Session B
Learn through demonstration, discussion, and hands on, how to create works of art made of fine metals. From jewelry to small sculpture, students will be introduced to metalworking tools and techniques to manipulate copper, brass and silver. Students will learn sawing, filing, cold connections, soldering, surface textures, forming, fabricating, stone setting, and finishing. Other techniques will be introduced according to class interest. Guidance will be given to encourage creativity and develop design skills. Please be sure to attend the first class and bring a note book and writing utensil.
Guided Independent Studies In Metals
This class is structured for students with metalworking experience to focus on their own interests. Students will select and design their own projects and receive guidance to execute them. Focus will be on enriching design skills and addressing artistic intent.
Intermediate Metalsmithing: Jewelry
Building on foundational skills developed in other metalsmithing classes, this intermediate course emphasizes precision, design development, and expanded stone-setting techniques: advanced bezel, tube, prong, and multi-stone settings. Students will refine soldering, fabrication, and finishing methods while creating projects such as a multi-stone ring or pair of earrings. Attention is given to layout accuracy, symmetry, and craftsmanship, as well as creative problem-solving. Students will demonstrate increased
technical confidence and a more personal design voice in their work.
Intro to Metalsmithing: Jewelry
This introductory studio course provides a foundation in essential jewelry fabrication
techniques. Students will learn to measure, saw, file, solder, and finish sheet metal
through guided exercises and projects such as spinner ring, stacker ring, or single-stone
ring. Basic cabochon stone-setting methods will be introduced, along with an emphasis
on design planning, craftsmanship, and safe studio practice. By the end of the course,
students will complete several small wearable pieces that demonstrate confidence in
basic metalsmithing skills.
Metals & Jewelry: Session A
Learn to create art from fine metals through demonstration, discussion, and hands-on work. Students will explore metalworking tools and techniques with copper, brass, and silver, including sawing, filing, soldering, cold connections, forming, surface textures, stone setting, and finishing. Additional techniques will be introduced based on class interest, with guidance to foster creativity and design skills. Please attend the first class and bring a notebook and pen.