Beginner jewelry classES
Forming Flowers
With Alyx Barnes
Sunday, May 17th | 10:00am – 5:00pm
Tuition: $240
Alyx Barnes will walk you through how to make a fun decorative flower hook for your home using basic metalsmithing techniques. She will teach sawing, texturing, annealing and low level forming in the first couple of hours. Then after a lunch break she will go all in on soldering and light finishing techniques. This class is the perfect introduction into forming and you’ll leave with the perfect decoration for spring.
All levels welcome!
Belt Buckle
With Rooster Gelderman
Saturday and Sunday, May 23rd & 24th | 10:00am – 4:00pm
Tuition: $450
Learn to sand cast on a larger scale in bronze. Rooster will walk you through making impressions to create a larger design. Day One of the course will be spent discussing design for the green sand molding process. Each student will design a belt buckle out of modeling clay. Day Two will be spent molding and casting the designs and learning how to install belt buckle hardware. Students may choose between a darkened patina or polished finished for their belt buckle.
All Levels Welcome!
Bolo Tie Making
Add some western flair to your jewelry making practice with our Bolo Tie Class! Tamara will walk you through her process of creating a bezel setting for a larger stone, she will help you design a piece including a secure bolo clasp and her signature braided wire!
All Levels Welcome!
Ring Bands
Ring making can seem intimidating, but it’s an essential part of jewelry making and is the perfect place to begin. In this hands-on ring making class, you’ll create your own sterling silver ring from scratch.
Not only will you leave with beautiful, wearable piece— you’ll also gain practical skills that can be applied to future jewelry projects.
Beginner: No experience needed!
Lapidary
Learn to cut rough stones into beautiful cabochons that you can set into jewelry. Each class is designed to teach how to cut rough and use a series of lapidary wheels to shape and buff the stone out.
Our lapidary classes cap at 3 students per session so the class is very personal with the instructor similar to a private lesson.
All Levels: No experience needed, open to all skill levels
Silver Stacking Rings
Make your own sterling silver stacking rings—no experience needed! You’ll solder, shape, and finish three rings (two round, one twisted) using real metalsmithing tools and a torch. Come get hands-on with metal and leave with rings you made yourself!
Beginner: No experience needed. The minimum age requirement is 16 and above.
Ring Making
Ring making can seem intimidating, but it’s an essential part of jewelry making and is the perfect place to begin. In this hands-on ring making class, you’ll create your own sterling silver ring from scratch.
Not only will you leave with beautiful, wearable piece— you’ll also gain practical skills that can be applied to future jewelry projects.
Beginner: No experience needed!
Marriage of Metals: Puzzle Inlay
Create a mixed-metal piece using a mosaic-like puzzling technique, where separate pieces of sheet metal are sawed, soldered, and finished into one unified design. This class focuses on complex sawing, sweat soldering, filing, sanding, polishing, and patina.
All Levels Welcome!
Build a Bezel: Stone Setting
with Issy Martel
Sunday, June 21st | 11:00 am–4:00 pm
Tuition: $200
Looking to improve your jewelry skills? This bezel setting class is the perfect place to start. In just four hours, you’ll learn how to create a simple bezel from scratch and finish your own handmade ring or pendant.
You’ll work with oval cabochon stones that range from 1–3 cm in diameter. At every step, you’ll gain essential skills and leave with a completed piece of jewelry.
Beginner: No prior experience required!
Casting Objects
In this two-day course, you’ll explore how to transform delicate and unexpected items — like lace, plastics, bugs, flowers, and more. You’ll learn how to turn them into beautiful metal forms using the lost wax casting process.
All Levels Welcome!
Tube Setting
Join Zeineb for this fun tube setting class with an astrological theme. She will be teaching the skill of tube setting as well as how to create a pendant with multiple settings. You don’t have to do a constellation for your final project, but you will be soldering tubes to sterling silver sheet and setting multiple cubic zirconia into a one of a kind pendant regardless.
All Levels Welcome!
Carve and Cast
In this weekend intensive, Griselda will take the first day to show you the basics of carving a wax ring. After you carve the ring you will sprue and invest the creation. Overnight the wax will burnout in the kiln and you’ll come in the next day ready to cast. She will walk you through melting and pouring the metal and then show you basic sprue clean up and finishing techniques!
All Levels Welcome!