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Do you love glass marbles and pendants? Wonder how they are made? Now you can learn the fundamentals of glass torch work and make them yourself! Topics include a brief history of beads and glass technology, small sculptural items, safety procedures, tools and techniques.

Make beautiful fine silver and bronze jewelry by hand with precious metal clay using basic tools. Learn to fire in both a kiln and by torch. Projects will include ring making, stone setting, casting from handmade molds, designing textures, and more. Finish your pieces and learn polishing techniques and patinas. $30 materials fee due to instructor on...

Destination Jewelry! Rings, earrings, pendants, stone setting and more! Whatever your skill level, a winter wonderland of jewelry techniques awaits you! This class presents specific projects to cater to beginning through to nearly intermediate jewelers. Includes 1-hour instructor-led open studio. Required supplies for this program: Materials fee...

What skills do you want to learn? Gracefully curved and soldered wire work? Mechanisms? New stone captures and settings? Hinges? A nifty box clasp? Maybe you want to incorporate enamels into your fabricated jewelry? Learn new techniques and use them in your next project! Get professional, personalized guidance, and expand your skillset with demonstrations...

Continue to develop your basic skills and increase accuracy in sawing and filing and use them to create patterns and forms in your pieces. Learn techniques for clean wire work, clasps and decorative elements. Explore design ideas with riveting and riveting for movement. Explore design layout and planning methods to streamline your projects. Final project...

Destination Jewelry! This is the first term of a series, designed to teach the ins and outs the hows and whys of jewelry fabrication. Jump on board to learn sawing, filing, soldering, texturing and finishing, cold connections, ring making, tool use and maintenance, metal forming, layout, and more.  Perfect for beginners, as well as students who...

Learn how to cut a design or pattern into metal by using a chemical etchant. This ancient technique has been used in a wide range of applications through many cultures, from printing plates and champlevé to medieval armor.  Class will cover two methods for preparing metal for etching, PNP (Press & Peel) and using a scribe. Beginning students...

A class for beginners and experienced beginners! This project based course is designed to get you up to speed with basic skills like measuring, sawing, filing, soldering, hammering and forming, while making, hoop earrings and finally, bezel settings, for use in self designed pendants or as earrings. Twists and turns as well as additional projects are...

Learn to create unique metal surfaces with texture and color. This class is appropriate for metalsmiths that have already completed (or are currently taking) beginning sculpture or jewelry classes. Students can choose individual techniques to work with and apply the techniques to already produced pieces, or create sample pieces on which they can learn...

Students learn to fabricate basic jewelry and learn use of hand tools and power tools. Perfect introductory class for students hoping to move into metal arts.  Students will learn use of basic hand tools to make two types of projects.  The first project will teach soldering to combine pieces of jewelry.  The second project will include...

If you've taken some beginning courses and are wondering what to do next, try Intermediate Jewelry! Exercises and your own projects combined with expert individual assistance will see your skills soar. Includes 1 hour instructor-led Open Studio. Take this multiple times to gain confidence and move on to Advanced Jewelry. To ensure best progress for...

Fabricate jewelry using small side stones. This is a project-based class with an emphasis on traditional assembly techniques and design.

Learn the history of jewelry mold making, and current low tech methods. Learn how rubber molds are made with the “Vulcanizer”and how they are cut. Instead of the same old printed jewelry, there are several other low tech ways to repeat the waxes. The wax finished products can be sent off site to be cast for a fee dependent on the metal's current...

Lapidary 101 for all skill levels: Create in semi-precious stone! Gain insight into gem and mineral attributes for working with stone; learn and practice basic and advanced stone shaping, and drilling techniques. In this class we start with standard template design, then graduate to free form technique and carving in the following class. Use finished...

In this class, create colorful and intricate inlay jewelry by hand. Learn to cut, shape, and fuse stones together to build complex and impressive motifs by using traditional techniques of lapidary and inlay.  Students will explore various inlay styles including mosaic, flush, and intarsia. After getting comfortable with foundational basics,...