Class Listing

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.
Workshop
  • March 22, 2024, Friday from 10:00am – 5:00pm
Tuition: $155.00
The language of ornamental blacksmithing is as striking as it is elegant, and thankfully it’s not exclusive to wrought iron working techniques - these entrancing metal manipulation processes can be adapted to fine jewelry making as well! Click on course image to read more.
Workshop
With Violet Ita
  • March 23, 2024, Saturday from 10:00am – 5:00pm
Tuition: $155.00
Learn how to make two stunning and simple bracelet styles without the need for soldering! Click on course image to read more.
Workshop
  • March 24, 2024, Sunday from 10:00am – 5:00pm
Tuition: $155.00
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.
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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.
Weekly Class
  • April 1, 2024 - June 3, 2024, Weekly on Monday from 10:00am – 1:00pm (8 days)
Tuition: $430.00

This weekly class provides training and solutions for a range of stone settings and techniques aimed at dressing up or enhancing your jewelry designs. Click course image to read more. 

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Weekly Class
  • April 1, 2024 - June 3, 2024, Weekly on Monday from 6:00pm – 9:00pm (8 days)
Tuition: $430.00
Whether implied or actual, subtle or striking, texture has a magical ability to capture the imagination and lures the viewer to take a closer look – it’s practically irresistible! Click course image to read more.
Weekly Class
With Allison Keast
  • April 2, 2024 - June 4, 2024, Weekly on Tuesday from 10:00am – 1:00pm (9 days)
Tuition: $490.00

In this weekly in-person class students will start with learning to cut, shape, polish, and precisely carve stone to create miniature sculptures and forms that can be transformed into wearable jewelry. Students will make their own unique settings/findings! Safety and proper tool use will be emphasized. Click course image to read more.

Weekly Class
With Allison Keast
  • April 2, 2024 - June 4, 2024, Weekly on Tuesday from 1:00pm – 4:30pm (9 days)
Tuition: $490.00
For students with previous stone carving experience, this weekly class is an opportunity to work on independent LAPIDARY projects with answers and guidance offered by a professional! Click on course image to read more.
Weekly Class
  • April 2, 2024 - June 4, 2024, Weekly on Tuesday from 6:00pm – 9:00pm (9 days)
Tuition: $490.00
This introductory course focuses on developing fundamental hand skills, good studio habits, and an appreciation for quality craftsmanship. Click on course image to read more.
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Weekly Class
  • April 3, 2024 - June 5, 2024, Weekly on Wednesday from 10:00am – 1:00pm (9 days)
Tuition: $490.00

The primary goal of this class is to provide students with a grounded understanding in jewelry and metalsmtihing studio practices and the foundational hand skills necessary for working successfully with non-ferrous metals. Click on course image to read more.

Weekly Class
  • April 3, 2024 - June 5, 2024, Weekly on Wednesday from 1:30pm – 4:30pm (9 days)
Tuition: $490.00

For students with Jewelry 1 experience and above, this class is an opportunity to complete independent projects or learn new skills with direct guidance from an experienced instructor! Click on course image to read more.

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Weekly Class
  • April 3, 2024 - June 5, 2024, Weekly on Wednesday from 6:00pm – 9:00pm (9 days)
Tuition: $490.00
The primary goal of this class is to provide students with the opportunity and guidance to elevate their foundational skills to new heights! This will be a fast-paced class focused on new complexities in fabricating with metal. Click on course image to read more.
Weekly Class
With Cristina Pabon
  • April 4, 2024 - June 6, 2024, Weekly on Thursday from 10:00am – 1:00pm (9 days)
Tuition: $490.00
This class will teach you how to expand and leverage your basic metalsmithing skill set to the next level. Click on course image to read more.
Weekly Class
With Cristina Pabon
  • April 4, 2024 - June 6, 2024, Weekly on Thursday from 1:30pm – 4:30pm (9 days)
Tuition: $490.00
Pursue individual projects with questions answered by a professional jeweler. This class is loaded with great bench tips to guide students through projects with success. Click on course image to read more.
Weekly Class
  • April 4, 2024 - June 6, 2024, Weekly on Thursday from 6:00pm – 9:00pm (9 days)
Tuition: $490.00
This weekly class presents students with the fundamentals of jewelry and metalsmithing skills. Among the many techniques we will cover, students will learn how to effectively shape, join, polish, texture, and patina metal. Click on course image to read more.
Workshop
  • April 5 - 7, 2024, Daily from 10:00am – 5:00pm (3 days)
Tuition: $535.00
Are you a jeweler who has taken a ton of classes, learned a plethora of jewelry making tricks, and made numerous projects laid out with the intent to master a specific set of techniques? Then THIS is your next step on your journey - come learn to find and nurture  your jewelry design voice! 
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.
Workshop
With Bonnie Bishoff
  • April 12 - 14, 2024, Daily from 10:00am – 5:00pm (3 days)
Tuition: $535.00
Bring two bold and beautiful mediums together with a bit of engineering, a sprinkle of soldering, and a pinch of baking! The possibilities are endless for form and surface design when you combine polymer clay and sheet metal & wire. Click 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.
Workshop
With Allison Keast
  • April 19, 2024, Friday from 10:00am – 5:00pm
Tuition: $155.00
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.
Workshop
  • April 20 - 21, 2024, Daily from 10:00am – 5:00pm (2 days)
Tuition: $400.00
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.
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.
Workshop
  • April 26 - 28, 2024, Daily from 10:00am – 5:00pm (3 days)
Tuition: $535.00
Have you always admired the eternity style band ring and wondered how to fabricate it? Join Jill in this 3-day workshop to learn her method of fabricating this versatile band!
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.
Workshop
  • May 3 - 5, 2024, Daily from 10:00am – 5:00pm (3 days)
Tuition: $535.00
In this in-depth 3-day workshop, students will join Cynthia Eid as they explore synclastic forming, anticlastic forming, and spiculums, while learning to hammer comfortably and with control. Click course image to read more.
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.
Workshop
With Cheri Dunnigan
  • May 10 - 12, 2024, Daily from 10:00am – 5:00pm (3 days)
Tuition: $535.00
In this 3-day workshop Cheri will present her technique of knitting metal wire chains and the methods that she has developed to manipulate larger expanded textile forms in precious metal! 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.
Workshop
With Anna Johnson
  • May 17 - 19, 2024, Daily from 10:00am – 5:00pm (3 days)
Tuition: $535.00
Embark on a 3-day adventure of creativity, where you'll learn to combine intricate object setting with alternative materials and problem-solving to create jewelry that reflects your individual style. 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.
Workshop
With Stephen LeBlanc
  • May 31, 2024 - June 2, 2024, Daily from 10:00am – 5:00pm (3 days)
Tuition: $535.00
Focusing on extremely smooth transitions of thick stock metal rods into dynamic and sculptural forms while using the transformative metal manipulation process of forging will be the focal point of this informative 3-day workshop. Click 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
  • 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.
Workshop
With Evan Cyr
  • June 7 - 9, 2024, Daily from 10:00am – 5:00pm (3 days)
Tuition: $535.00
This comprehensive 3-day skill-building workshop is for experienced jewelers looking to add high caliber stone setting skills for three fancy cut stone shapes to their jewelry making repertoire! Click course image to read more.
Workshop
  • June 14, 2024, Friday from 10:00am – 1:00pm
Tuition: $75.00
The Back to Work weave is a more simple weave suitable for beginners to construct. Experienced weavers are also welcome! Click on course image to read more.
Workshop
  • June 14, 2024, Friday from 2:00pm – 5:00pm
Tuition: $75.00
Students will learn how to construct the Sunrise weave by making a bracelet in sterling silver. Additional material will include a demonstration showing how to create discs from the weave, which can be used as earrings, pendants, or elements that can be applied in more complex jewelry designs. Click on course image to read more.
Workshop
With Allison Keast
  • June 15, 2024, Saturday from 10:00am – 5:00pm
Tuition: $155.00

During this one-day course, participants will be turning a found beach treasure into beautiful pieces of jewelry. Students will learn how to cut, drill and carve into their glass or stone, while adding silver accents to make a pendant. Click course image to read more.

Summer with the Masters
  • June 20 - 24, 2024, Daily from 10:00am – 5:00pm (5 days)
Tuition: $875.00
In this captivating 5-day workshop, we will delve into the contemporary art of Limoges enameling, gaining valuable insights into the application of overglaze paints. Click on 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.
Summer with the Masters
  • June 26 - 30, 2024, Daily from 10:00am – 5:00pm (5 days)
Tuition: $875.00
Microfolding can also be called corrugation. The wavy undulations add strength to thin metal, making it possible to create large, yet light and sturdy, jewelry. This process offers endless possibilities for creativity through texturing and forming. Click on course image to read more.

 

Summer with the Masters
  • July 10 - 14, 2024, Daily from 10:00am – 5:00pm (5 days)
Tuition: $875.00
This intensive summer workshop focuses on ways of manipulating sheet metal through scoring, folding, tabbing, and dapping to create small volumes. Click course image to read more.
Summer with the Masters
With Tom Muir
  • July 17 - 21, 2024, Daily from 10:00am – 5:00pm (5 days)
Tuition: $875.00
This intensive, hands-on, 5-day workshop will focus on three types of hinges, for the jeweler and metalsmith: a standard three to seven knuckle hinge, an integral hinge (aka invisible or hidden hinge), and a universal joint hinge. Click course image to read more.
Summer with the Masters
With Kirk Lang
  • July 24 - 28, 2024, Daily from 10:00am – 5:00pm (5 days)
Tuition: $875.00
This technical 5-day stone setting class will explore prong, flush, and bezel setting of round and fancy cut gemstones. Channel and basic bead setting will also be covered! Students will learn the setting-theory, gemstone characteristics, tool making, and how to design for unique stones. Click course image to read more.
Summer with the Masters
With Jayne Redman and Elizabeth Lyne
  • July 31, 2024 - August 4, 2024, Daily from 10:00am – 5:00pm (5 days)
Tuition: $875.00
Let by two experts in the field, this 5-day course will teach how to transform 2D designs into workable imagery suitable for the transformative process of etching, which will then be further enhanced with die forming techniques to give them more dimension! Click course image to read more.
Summer with the Masters
With Sulo Bee and Nanette Pengelley
  • August 7 - 11, 2024, Daily from 10:00am – 5:00pm (5 days)
Tuition: $600.00
CampFIRE is a learning environment for queer teens to explore their identity, voices, and creative practices as artists. Click course image to read more.
Summer with the Masters
With Anne Wolf
  • August 14 - 18, 2024, Daily from 10:00am – 5:00pm (5 days)
Tuition: $875.00
In this intensive 5-day course, create a small mokume gane cup form or box from scratch while learning the secrets of this ancient Japanese metalworking technique that creates captivating and unique swirls of metal alloys. Click course image to read more.
Summer with the Masters
With Michael Boyd
  • August 20 - 22, 2024, Daily from 10:00am – 5:00pm (3 days)
Tuition: $675.00

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. Click course image to read more.

Summer with the Masters
With Michael Boyd
  • August 24 - 28, 2024, Daily from 10:00am – 5:00pm (5 days)
Tuition: $945.00

Learn how to integrate stone and metal as a whole, rather than as separate objects. Demonstrations include how to shape rough stones, drill through them, make perfect bezels for unique shapes, set stones on top of stones, add decorative rivets, and more. Click course image to read more.

Summer with the Masters
With Michael Boyd
  • August 30 - 31, 2024, Daily from 10:00am – 5:00pm (2 days)
Tuition: $400.00
This 2-day workshop will incorporate Michael's technique for fusing gold patterns onto Argentium silver for brilliant patterns and designs! Click course image to read more.
Summer with the Masters
  • September 4 - 8, 2024, Daily from 10:00am – 5:00pm (5 days)
Tuition: $875.00
In this 5-day intensive, students will learn the unique and exciting processes of chasing and repoussé from and established expert in the field!
Summer with the Masters
With Michael Good
  • September 11 - 15, 2024, Daily from 10:00am – 5:00pm (5 days)
Tuition: $995.00

Metalsmithing master Michael Good will lead students through a series of exercises designed to teach the principles of Anticlastic Raising - moving metal from flat sheet into complex curved forms.

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Workshop
  • December 31, 2024, Tuesday from 10:00am – 4:00pm
Tuition: $425.00

Pulse arc welding lessons are available from April through June. Metalwerx will put students in touch with the instructor after registration has been completed, to schedule the dates / times of the lesson.

Tuition covers 6 hours of instruction and practice time with David Baird. 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

Workshop
  • December 31, 2024, Tuesday from 10:00am – 4:00pm
Tuition: $425.00

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

 

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