Description:

In this Mixed Levels Jewelry Class new students will learn fundamental jewelry fabrication techniques including sawing, filing, sanding, soldering, riveting and finishing. Skills taught in this course can be applied to a variety of jewelry forms including rings, necklaces, earrings, bracelets, etc. Returning students (or those with skills equivalent to our Beginning Jewelry course) are welcome to work on independent projects with assistance from the instructor. Demonstrations on more advanced techniques —such as stone setting, ingot pouring and more complex fabrication— will be added as needed and as time permits. Students can expect to complete 2-3 small projects during the course. Limit 10 students. Classes meet 3 hours once a week. Open to all levels of experience.

Schedule:

Tuesdays 6-9pm, November 11 - December 16

Location:

Smith Shop, 180 Victor St, Highland Park, MI 48203

Instructor Biography:

Amy Weiks is Co-owner and Co-founder of Smith Shop. She began her art career as a photographer before studying printmaking at the Glasgow School of Art in Glasgow, Scotland. She discovered metalsmithing in 2004 and has been a practicing metalsmith since. Amy’s innate sense of form and composition along with her detail oriented nature help drive Smith Shop’s exacting standards of quality. Amy has shown her artwork nationally and internationally including exhibitions at the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft in Houston, TX, The Bellevue Arts Museum in Bellevue, WA, and Galerie Marzee in Nijmegen, Netherlands. In 2013 Weiks had a solo exhibition at Velvet da Vinci, a noted jewelry gallery in San Francisco, CA. She received her BFA from Western Michigan University her MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art.