This comprehensive immersion into the world of metals is carefully curated to enhance your creative artistic journey. Engage in enriching classroom sessions led by seasoned metalsmiths and jewelers, featuring captivating demonstrations, insightful lectures, and visually stimulating presentations. Intimate class sizes foster optimal interaction between participants and instructors.
Instructor: Amelia Toelke
This workshop will focus on the creation of a sterling silver charm bracelet adorned with charms designed by participants. Learn precision soldering techniques that focus on chain making, sweat soldering, small-scale construction and fabrication with sheet and wire.
Instructor: Roy Talahaftewa (Hopi)
Explore Indigenous ingenuity and learn to cast jewelry utilizing a unique form of limestone called Tufa stone. This labor-intensive process involves many steps but will leave you with a lasting imprint and insight into a unique technique in silversmithing.
Instructor: Richard Tsosie (Navajo)
Design patterns and create colorful collages in semi-precious stones as you learn how to operate lapidary equipment to cut, grind, and polish stones to set into the silver form of your choice, such as bracelets, pendants, belt buckles, and rings, which you will create!
*Due to popular demand, we are excited to offer two Navajo Inlay Jewelry sessions. You may enroll in both weeks or just one. For returning students, the second session provides the opportunity to dive deeper into your newly established jewelry making skills and work on additional projects or continue a larger project.
