Projects challenge skill level and improve technique.

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Explore the craft of stonesetting, including bezel, prong, channel and gypsy. Each setting is executed in a sterling silver ring provided by instructor.
Prerequisite: Jewelry I.

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Design your own earrings, necklaces, bracelets and brooches. Techniques include stringing, knotting, weaving, off-loom beadwork, basic wire work and clasp attachments.
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Through fusion and bonding, learn the traditional weaving and linking techniques used to make ancient styles of hard-woven chains, clasps and closures.

Basic jewelry-making skills are desirable but not required.

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Learn to solder multiple links for chains and discover a variety of chain-making skills.

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This two day workshop focuses on the same fun and versatile techniques that were applied to such monumental sculptures as the statue of liberty! It is a great follow up class for students who have taken Hydraulic Die Forming and wish to expend and refine the skills they have learned as well as an informative [...]

A chain is a staple in any jewelry wardrobe – and making one is not only fun, but also a great way to introduce important techniques in jewelry making such as sawing, soldering, using a rolling mill and drawing wire, forming and finishing. This course will introduce you to the art of chain-making, beginning with [...]

Learn the techniques of classical/Greco-Roman-style goldsmithing in fine silver or high-karat gold. Cover fabrication, sol-dering fusing, bezel settings, chain making and twisted wire.

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Practice advanced techniques of classical/Greco-Roman-style goldsmithing in fine silver or high-karat gold, such as alloying, granulation and chain making.

Prerequisite: Classical Goldsmithing Technique I.

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Calling all fashion, jewelry and accessory designers! You’ve perfected your craft, developed your look and done your homework: your line is fabulous, unique and ready to be offered. Now what? In this course, experienced designers will give insider information and the critical skills to successfully launch your line. We will examine all the basics for [...]

Explore new techniques and stitch combinations to design your own unique beaded jewelry. Projects are offered by the instructor, but students are encouraged to explore their own design ideas. Basic knowledge of stringing techniques and seed beadwork is required.Explore new techniques and stitch combinations to design your own unique beaded jewelry. Projects are offered by [...]

This class will show you how to attach clasps to strung beads.  You will learn a simple and secure way of crimping.  In this class you will create a floating crimped bracelet or necklace.  The price of this class includes 18″ of soft flex wire, 1 base metal lobster clasp and jump ring, and base [...]

THIS CLASS IS CLOSED.  This is a studio course for beginning students, covering the following techniques that will enable you to create your own jewelry as you envision it: soldering, stone setting, metal construction and forming, piercing, finishing, surface design and polishing, repousse, ancient and modern chain-making and granulation. Instruction in cloissone enamel will also [...]

THIS CLASS IS CLOSED. 

This workshop will expand and develop your jewelry techniques in silver and gold. The skills covered will include advanced techniques in soldering, stone setting, metal construction and forming (including hollow Roman rings and bracelets), hinges and clasps, granulation and fusing, ancient and modern chain-making, finishing, surface design and polishing. Instruction in cloissone [...]

Make ear wires, head pins, hoop earrings and wire wrapping to create earrings with beads as embellishment. Explore the hydraulic die press to make quick multiple shapes that can be used for earrings. Each student leaves with three or four pairs of earrings.

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This class will show you how to attach your earring designs onto ear wires.  You will learn the “hangman’s noose” wrap which is one of the basic staples in jewelry design.  The cost of this class includes headpins and base metal earwires.  Beads not included.

All beading classes are one session each.  Classes include the findings [...]

Learn the basic techniques to create enameled jewelry, including enameling on three-dimensional forms and castings. Basic jewelry skills are combined with enameling techniques such as champlevé and cloisonné to create jewelry with form and color.

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Design and make your own pieces while exploring the fundamentals of working with precious metals and setting stones. Learn about all aspects of fabrication, including soldering, forming, setting techniques, mechanisms, alloys and pouring ingots.

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Use various gauges of copper, brass, bronze, nu-gold, nickel and silver wire to twist, cut, solder and roll through the mill. Create a sheet of patterned metal that can be used for brooches, pendants and more.

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 Learn to pour an ingot in sterling silver or gold and forge it into a classic tapered S-clasp.

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Gold is the most sought after precious metal since pre historic times. Pure Gold is a bright yellow metal called 24 karat and made up only of its self. In this class students learn the age old methods of alloying the pure gold to make 22 karat, 18 and 14 karat gold in colors ranging [...]

Learn to navigate the world of colored gemstones. Find out what to ask when looking to purchase. Review the memo process and price structuring at the wholesale and retail levels.

This two day workshop (two Saturdays) focuses on introducing the students to the basic tools and processes involved with Hydraulic Die Forming. Students will be encouraged to draw from various sources for their 2-D images which, will then be made into a matrix die. Students will then learn to use the matrix die to press out metal forms [...]

Create a ring of half-round interlocking bands sometimes called a Welsh wedding band or a Tiffany ring.

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This course is in TRIBECA.  Learn basic skills for creating quick and easy beaded jewelry. Techniques include weaving, pearl knotting, stringing with elastic, beading wire with crimp beads and simple wire work with headpin and eye-pins.

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Get an introduction to seed beadwork, learn more advanced knotting techniques and expand your wire-working skills.

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This course is in TRIBECA.  Get an introduction to seed beadwork, learn more advanced knotting techniques and expand your wire-working skills.

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Learn basic skills for creating quick and easy beaded jewelry. Techniques include weaving, pearl knotting, stringing with elastic, beading wire with crimp beads and simple wire work with headpin and eye-pins.

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Learn to create iridescent, jewel-like colors on niobium and titanium.

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A fast paced introduction to the art of jewelry making. This Silversmith class covers the basics including soldering, filing, and sawing, polishing, riveting and cabochon stone setting. The classes are project based and students learn through fabrication while finishing one to two pieces of jewelry over the duration of the course.

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Construct three-dimensional jewelry forms by sawing, bending, folding, dapping and soldering. Concentrate on technical exercises where personal expression emerges as a result of skill rather than design.

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Learn the basics of jewelry making and create a sterling-silver ring, an object of jewelry with a bezel set cabochon and a self-designed piece utilizing the skills covered in class.

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Expand your skills to make stepped bezels, a linkage project and a fabrication project.

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Expand your skills to make stepped bezels, a linkage project and a fabrication project.

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Develop individual projects with an emphasis on technical problem-solving and mastering new skills. Individual instruction allows students to strengthen design skills and produce a cohesive body of work. The course focuses on each student’s objective for his or her work, from personal expression to marketing and becoming an industry professional.

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Pour hot metal into easy, fun-to-make molds and marvel at what happens! Unlike traditional metal casting from carved plaster or wax models, “low-tech” methods such as cuttlefish casting, sand casting and bean casting create abstract, freeform shapes that can then be transformed into unique jewelry. Working in silver and/or bronze, students will explore the properties [...]

Gain general knowledge about materials and methods specific to the field of jewelry making, and explore a variety of technical and conceptual approaches to develop individual ideas and presentation. Bring your work-in-progress to refine ideas, concepts, design skills and marketing plans..

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Study both traditional and experimental techniques in cloisonné and champlevé, as well as introductions to grisaille and plique-à-jour. Create solderless enamel jewelry, wall pieces or small objects on copper, silver or gold, as well as on cast pieces.

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Hone your design and production skills, and make your work cutting edge through field trips to current New York jewelry shows and events combined with studio classes.

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Explore the intricacies of precious metal clay, a material made of gold or silver powders, that can be shaped with your fingers. It is carved when hard and fired in a kiln, forming a light, durable and precious piece.

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Designed to help students gain detailed information about the structure of the art world, this course will address the skills necessary for surviving as an artist. Students will develop and produce a professional packet, plan an effective career strategy, begin to build a network of art world contacts and foster a sense of clarity about [...]

Make twisted wire bangles, an initial pendant and a bezel-set ring with prefab components.

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Learn to melt down and alloy your old gold to make new sheet or wire.

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Make color a dynamic part of your jewelry with epoxy resin. Create myriad effects with an unlimited color palette by com-bining resin with pigments and collage materials. This process requires no heat and can be done at your kitchen table.

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This studio course is for experienced jewelry students who would like to further refine their silver and gold jewelry-making skills and design. Students will work on projects of their own design and will be individually assisted by the instructor. The course will emphasize problem solving and refinement of techniques and design skills, with stress on [...]

This studio course is for students who would like to design and create jewelry in sterling and fine silver. Basic metalworking and soldering skills will be practiced by making a ring set with a stone. Students will then design and fabricate a personal project, based on traditional or modern applications of the media. Soldering, stone [...]

Practice forming, forging, raising and planishing, and get an introduction to chasing and repoussé for jewelry and small objects.

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Take your bezel setting up a notch and make bezel settings for facet stones.

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Do you crave color? Epoxy resin, a simple two-part adhesive, is a wonderful base for creating dynamic effects with color pigments, embedded objects and painting techniques. Sometimes known as “cold enamel,” using epoxy resin is easy and fun, and requires only a small space, a little specialized equipment and no heat. This course will introduce [...]

Back by popular demand: Quickie Bling Bling! Make wrapped-eye earrings with beads or pearls, a roll printed or pierced cuff bracelet and a bezel-set ring with prefab components.

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Use various gauges of copper, brass, bronze, nu-gold, nickel and silver wire to twist, cut, solder and roll through the mill. Create a sheet of patterned metal that can be used for brooches, pendants and more.

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Turn one ring into a hundred! Learn methods to design and create wax models for casting, including direct carving, wax build-up, wax wire and sheet construction, preparation for enameling, and reproduction and duplication of existing forms.

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Working in wax offers jewelers great possibilities for designing and creating jewelry with a highly sculptural feel. Learn to carve wax using files and burrs, apply heat for building up wax model or repairing mistakes and finishing techniques to obtain a clean casting. Advanced wax-working techniques introduced as students develop their skills. Completed projects will [...]

Choose from a variety of projects and design strategies. Begin by using practice wire and beads to concentrate on tech-nique, and progress to projects of your own choosing.

Prerequisite: A working knowledge of basic crochet stitches is required: chain stitch, slip stitch, single crochet and half-double crochet. Students must bring samples of their fiber crochet work [...]

Learn basic cold-connection techniques that combine wire and beads to create earrings, necklaces and bangles.

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Explore weaving, braiding, free-form wire wrapping, wire crochet and more.

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