Tidepool Bracelet with Linda Ames

Fri, May 24, PM: CLOSED

Fri, June 14, AM: REGISTER

Pendant Set with David Farris

Create a unique textured copper pendant and/or earrings to impress your friends and family with jewelry designer David Farris. In this 2 hour class you will learn a variety of different techniques including cold connection, texturing, finishing, metal forming and stamping. No experience necessary, alternate materials will be offered at an additional cost.

Apply these techniques to a larger piece of copper and create a metal accent piece bound to leather. 

Bio
David Farris is a jewelry designer, metalsmith, and G.I.A. certified gemologist living in Orange County, CA. His jewelry designs feature a wide range of materials ranging from sterling silver and semi-precious gemstones to platinum and diamonds and often showcase unusual textures and markings combined with rich surface patinas. In all of his work, he believes that the design and composition of the piece is every bit as important as materials used. David considers his jewelry creations to be wearable pieces of art and believes that his formal fine art and design education from California State University, Long Beach gives him a unique approach to jewelry design.

Sat, May 25, PM: CLOSED

Sat, June 8, PM: REGISTER

Water Casting with Erin Proctor

Bio
Erin Proctor is a native southern Californian artist specializing in wearable metal sculpture with a retro-futuristic feel.  She graduated from California State University Long Beach in 2009 with a BFA in Metalsmithing and Jewelry Design and has since started her own studio practice where she continues to explore the art of metal sculpture and jewelry making. Her studies and interest in such things as aviation, classic automobiles, cosmology, quantum physics and mid-century aesthetics are whimsically represented in her work.

Sat, May 18, AM: REGISTER

Fri, June 7, PM: REGISTER

Sun, June 9, AM (Soldering, 3.5 hours, $125): CLOSED

Sat, June 22, PM: REGISTER

Sat, June 29, PM: REGISTER

Jewelry Making with Lorraine Hornby

Twist & Turn: Silver Wire Sculpture Earrings

Let your imagination run wild to create a unique pair of silver earrings! Using a few simple hand tools, students will learn how to transform a length of silver into a work of art. Students will begin with a design set in copper before completing the sculptural silver earrings. Class also offers the option to add pearls and gems for extra dazzle.

Bezel Setting with a Gemstone - Create a unique sterling silver pendant showcasing a bezel-set cabochon gemstone. This class requires no prior jewelry making experience, but is packed with fundamental techniques. Students will learn to texture metal, create a bezel setting, solder (using a simple micro torch), drill, and set a stone.

Bio

I love the process of designing a new piece: thinking about color, balance, texture, and form. I spend many hours searching gem shows to find distinctive stones to include in my work. Each piece that I make is the culmination not only of this searching, but of time spent imagining many variations leading to the final design, and of the actual creation of the work.

Fri, May 24, AM (Silver Earrings): CLOSED

Sat, June 1, PM (Bezel Setting a Gemstone): REGISTER

Sat, June 15, PM (Bezel Setting a Gemstone): REGISTER

Chain Making & Fold Forming with Annette Doreng-Stearns

In the Chain Making class you will learn how to design, file, forge, how to create jump rings and assemble a chain with maximum movement. Students will leave with a handmade copper necklace, and if time permits, a matching pair of earrings.

In the Fold Formed Leaf Earrings class, you will learn to anneal metal, how to curve it with hammer blows and how to shape it into a leaf form.

In the Fold Formed bracelet class, students will learn how to texture a cuff by folding and hammering, and then adding a fire patina.

Introduction to Precious Metal Clay (PMC)

Learn how to work with PMC to create unique jewelry, in the fun and creative full day workshop, taught by Rio Grande certified PMC instructor, Annette Doreng-Stearns.  You will learn how to cut, texture, form, paste, finish and fire PMC clay, and will leave this class with several pieces of pure silver jewelry. This class includes 16 gr. PMC3 and use of tools. Feel free to bring your own rubber stamps to make textures in the clay, and really make it your own.

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"Say it" with Jewelry with Jamie Bichler

Say it with Jewelry!
Explore the craft of jewelry making in this fun introductory workshop! Using hand tools and letter stamps to emboss words and short phrases into silver discs, you will create your very own pair of sterling silver earrings or pendant, to keep or give as a gift. Names, positive affirmations, and light humor are among the decorative themes to explore as you learn the basics of working with silver.  

Bio

Jamie has been making jewelry for close to 20 years. Her work blends her love of words with her sassy nature to make powerful and whimsical jewelry.