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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.
Class Listing
Workshop
With Allison Keast
- April 19, 2024, Friday from 10:00am – 5:00pm
Tuition: $155.00
Workshop
With William Vanaria
- 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
With Jill Hurant
- 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
With Jill Hurant
- 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
With Jennifer Wells
- 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
With Paulette Werger
- 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
With Cynthia Eid
- 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
With William Vanaria
- 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 Matthieu Cheminée and Mohamed Amoumoune
- May 11 - 12, 2024, Daily from 10:00am – 1:00pm (2 days)
Tuition: $225.00
In this demo-focused virtual class, co-taught by Mohamed Amoumoune, a jeweler from Agadez, Niger and Matthieu Cheminee, students will earn to raise metal and to engrave by creating three-dimensional pieces through a Tuareg technique used to make Grigri (talisman). 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
With Paulette Werger
- 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
With Paulette Werger
- 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
With Matthieu Cheminée
- June 4 - 18, 2024, Weekly on Tuesday from 10:00am – 12:00pm (3 days)
Tuition: $230.00
In this demo-focused virtual class students will discover the intricacies of making a few different chain styles including palm trees, flat palm trees, wheat, and more. Click on course image to read more.
Virtual Course
With Wendy Jo New
- 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.
Virtual Course
With Deanna Pastel
- June 8, 2024, Saturday from 11:00am – 2:00pm
Tuition: $115.00
Learn the art of sifting enamel onto low relief textures and firing using a torch in this demo-focused virtual workshop on the basse taille enameling technique. Click course image to read more.
Virtual Course
With Lorena Lazard
- June 13 - 27, 2024, Weekly on Thursday from 11:00am – 1:00pm (3 days)
Tuition: $230.00
In this demo-focused virtual workshop, you will learn how to create and apply patinas safely using only household products on copper, brass, and silver. Factors that influence patinas, common recipes, and jewelry applications will all be covered! Click course image to read more.
Workshop
With Karen Karon
- 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
With Karen Karon
- 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.
Virtual Course
With Arthur Hash
- June 15 - 17, 2024, Daily from 10:00am – 12:00pm (3 days)
Tuition: $230.00
If you’ve ever wanted to learn how to utilize computers to design jewelry (CAD), wait no longer - take this rare opportunity to learn from the maestro of jewelry “pixels” himself, Arthur Hash! Click course image to read more.
Virtual Course
With Märta Mattsson
- June 19 - 26, 2024, Weekly on Wednesday from 10:00am – 12:00pm (2 days)
Tuition: $155.00
Epoxy is a perfect material for creating interesting surfaces on top of metal or on alternative materials like wood, found objects, or clay. Join us in this exciting virtual class and let your imagination run wild! Click course image to read more.
Summer with the Masters
With Mi-Sook Hur
- 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.
Virtual Course
With Taylor Fentz
- June 24, 2024 - July 1, 2024, Weekly from 6:00pm – 8:00pm (2 days)
Tuition: $155.00
In this demo focused virtual workshop, students will learn techniques for making 3 styles of tiny hinges (the cutest of all hinges) for hoop earrings and body adornment!
Summer with the Masters
With Cynthia Eid
- 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.
Virtual Course
With Paulette Werger
- July 1 - 15, 2024, Weekly on Monday from 10:00am – 12:00pm (3 days)
Tuition: $230.00
A three-session virtual class that focuses on using Argentium to create a pendant incorporating fusion, soldering, and simple stone setting. Click on course image to read more.
Virtual Course
With Lorena Lazard
- July 5, 2024, Friday from 11:00am – 2:00pm
Tuition: $115.00
Metal etching with ferric chloride is a captivating process for creating intricate designs and patterns on various metal surfaces. Learn all you need to know about the ferric process for metal in this virtual course! Click course image to read more.
Virtual Course
With Emily Pellini
- July 6 - 7, 2024, Daily from 11:00am – 1:00pm (2 days)
Tuition: $155.00
Have you ever had the desire to make your enamel jewelry glow in a lustrous sheen?! In this demo-focused virtual workshop, learn all about luster and mica powders on to vitreous enamel for intriguing surfaces and layers! Click course image to read more.
Virtual Course
With Nanette Pengelley
- July 9 - 16, 2024, Weekly on Tuesday from 10:00am – 12:00pm (2 days)
Tuition: $155.00
Finding a small treasure in the serene wild of a wooded scape or the sandy terrain of your favorite beach can be a tranquil and cathartic experience. In this virtual class, learn to set these often uniquely shaped tokens of adventure into jewelry - memories, for you to carry and muse upon during days of a more mundane nature. Click course image to read more.
Summer with the Masters
With Paulette Werger
- 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.
Virtual Course
With Andy Lowrie
- July 12 - 26, 2024, Weekly on Friday from 10:00am – 12:00pm (3 days)
Tuition: $230.00
Is hand drawing and sketching not your cup of tea? Looking for a way to explore designing in your jewelry practice that's less manual and comes with a whole bag of prescribed "tools" to help you get the job done in an efficient yet accurate manner? Look no further than this perfectly suited virtual class! Click course image to read more.
Virtual Course
With Margo Csipő
- July 13 - 20, 2024, Weekly on Saturday from 10:00am – 12:00pm (2 days)
Tuition: $155.00
In this demo-focused virtual course students will learn to transform the surfaces of shell, bone, plastic, soft stone, and other materials through the line-based mark making technique known as scrimshaw. 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.
Virtual Course
With Alex Boyd
- July 18 - 25, 2024, Weekly on Thursday from 11:00am – 1:00pm (2 days)
Tuition: $155.00
This unique virtual class is all about stealing the long cherished secrets of blacksmiths to make jewelry! 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
With Nancy Mēgan Corwin
- 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.
Workshop
With David Baird
- 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
With Wendy Jo New
- 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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