Virtual Courses

This class shares basic chisel making skills and their use for decorative texture effects as well as an introduction to basic inlay methods. Click on course title or image to read more.

Unlock the potential of precision in this virtual class focused on creating tiny threaded connections—perfect for jewelry and small-scale sculpture. Get experience with the essential tools to create miniature nuts, bolts, and other functional cold connections entirely by hand. Click on the course image or title for more information.

Learn to make your own chasing and repoussé tools out of water-quenched tool steel! This virtual class will cover a straight and curved liner, push tools, and planishers. Click on the course image or title to learn more.

Learn to fabricate and set various types of stones by creating your own bezels, tab settings, tube settings, and flush settings with guidance from an expert in the field! Click the course image or title for more information.

Ready to take your jewelry photography beyond the basics? This intermediate-to-advanced workshop is designed for makers who want to create stronger original captures and learn how to edit their images to a more polished, professional standard. This class will help jewelers translate what they already understand about material, surface, and form into stronger photographic decisions. Click the course title or image to learn more!

Learn the basics of chasing and repoussé—an ancient technique that, through the use of hammering and punch tools, allows two-dimensional sheet metal to take on three-dimensional shapes! Click on course image or title to learn more.

This demo-focused virtual workshop will introduce participants to the world of stamp making with emphasis placed on stamping applications for gorgeous, fully functioning belt buckles! Click on course image or title to learn more.

In this demo-focused virtual workshop, students will learn the step-by-step procedures for utilizing the practically-magical electroforming technique. Click on course image to read more.

Unlock the magic of controlled chaos and melt with purpose with the art of torch fusing! Click on course image or title for more details.

This workshop is intended to familiarize one with the understanding in how to work with titanium. Participants will learn the traditional techniques of design, sawing, and fabricating. Participants are encouraged to come with an imaginative, experimental approach to art making. Click course title or image to learn more.

This three-session virtual class explores the direct method of torch firing enamel on copper. Explore surface treatments with applying opaque, transparent and crackle enamels on copper. Add texture and pattern with multiple firings using transfers, stamps, stencils and embossing. Form and color are combined to make enamel surfaces simply on copper with a torch. Click course image or title to learn more.

Create elegant paperclip-style chains using long, hand-fabricated links that are quick to make, easy to customize, and perfect for showcasing pendants or wearing on their own. Click on course title or image to read more.

Unlock a whole new world of stone-setting possibilities! Join metalsmith and lapidary artist Ryan Gardner for an exciting, hands-on virtual class where you’ll learn how to combine stones in unexpected and creative ways. Click the course image or title to learn more.

In this class you will learn how to add volume to your designs through hands-on, low tech die forming processes. In addition to learning the forming process, students will learn how to make their own press dies from wood, acrylic, or masonite as well as gain tips for repurposing old tools (steel, plastic, and wood) into custom chasing and forming tools. Click the course image or title to learn more.