Section A Meets 2/4/2013 to 5/13/2013 on Monday from 11:30 AM to 3:00 PM.
Section B Meets 1/29/2013 to 5/7/2013 on Tuesday from 6:30 PM to 10:00 PM.

Location: MICA Jewelry Center at Meadow Mill. Geared to the beginning student, but open to all levels; emphasizes creative thinking, design, and mastery of technical skills for making jewelry or small metal objects. Introduces jewelry as an expressive, inventive art form viewed with increasing seriousness over the last decade, as distinctions between sculpture, fashion, performance, and jewelry have blurred. Slide presentations and discussions provide an overview of contemporary and historical jewelry. Through demonstrations and hands-on experience, participants learn metalworking techniques, including sawing, soldering, polishing, riveting, surface embellishment, forming, and hollow fabrication - and apply these techniques to projects to create jewelry and/or small-scale sculpture of the student's own design. Note: Section A will not have class on March 25. Section B will not have class on March 19.

Section A Meets 1/29/2013 to 5/7/2013 on Tuesday from 10:00 AM to 1:30 PM.

Location: MICA Jewelry Center at Meadow Mill. Since stone cutting began, gems and minerals of all kinds have been incorporated into the art of jewelry fabrication. Because of the diversity and distinct characteristics of gemstones, multiple setting techniques have been developed throughout the centuries to enhance each stone's brilliance and wearability. The basics of several setting techniques, including bezel, tube, flush and prong will be covered. Students have hands-on instruction and learn to apply the proper techniques to strengthen their jewelry making capabilities. NOTE: Students are requested to bring a flex shaft if possible. Note: No class on March 19

Section A Meets 1/23/2013 to 5/1/2013 on Wednesday from 10:00 AM to 1:30 PM.

This course is designed for the intermediate or advanced student who wants to hone soldering skills, increase technical knowledge and stretch the vocabulary of techniques for jewelers. New possibilities for three-dimensional form, texture, and surface embellishment are explored. Through demonstration and hands-on experience, students learn the process of fabricating more complex forms in metal as well as appropriate design and production mechanisms for the pieces created. Fabrication techniques include clasps, hinges, pendant bails and pin findings. Slide presentations, lectures and critiques serve to enhance students’ understanding and the applications of the techniques explored. Prerequisite: Perfecting Basic Skills or equivalent experience. Note: No class on March 20.

Section A Meets 1/31/2013 to 4/11/2013 on Thursday from 6:15 PM to 10:00 PM.

Jewelry has the potential to cross boundaries in form, function and concept. Students explore the various ways makers can transform their jewelry into conceptual, sculptural, wearable works. This course is designed to prepare students to make and exhibit their work on a live model at MICA’s 20th Annual Benefit Fashion Show, sponsored by the Office of Diversity and the Black Student Union. Design ideas and inspirations, model making, construction techniques and finishing are explored in response to one-on-one consultation between student and instructor. A variety of techniques for incorporating jewelry processes and sculptural forms designed for the body are covered. Working group critiques, slide lectures and demonstrations throughout the course serve to enhance the creative process. Note: No class on March 21.

Section A Meets 1/23/2013 to 5/1/2013 on Wednesday from 6:30 PM to 10:00 PM.

This hands-on course, geared for the artist, jeweler, architect or designer, introduces the principles of three-dimensional thinking through small scale sculptural processes. Students use metal as the primary material to investigate a variety of techniques in both steel and non-ferrous metal. The safe and proper methods of oxyacetylene torch welding and soldering, as well as various forming and finishing techniques, are covered. Students may create projects as maquettes for larger works not yet realized, as wearable objects, or as diminutive sculptures in their own right. Emphasis is placed on revealing the unique expressive potential of sculptural forms in metal and gaining creative insight into the metalworking process.Note: No class on March 20.

Section A Meets 1/19/2013 to 1/20/2013 on Saturday,Sunday from 9:30 AM to 4:30 PM.

Location: MICA Jewelry Center at Meadow Mill, Instructor: Andy Cooperman. There’s more than one way to skin a cat. Gain a fresh perspective on working in the studio, from soldering to making your own stock, and begin to think beyond the books. This 2-day demonstration only seminar is packed with technical tips and tricks that can help get you out of sticky situations and improve your efficiency at the bench. Designed to breach some of the rigid walls that stand between you and the work that you want to make, the format is structured to allow for spontaneous discussions, addressing even non-technical topics such as professional practices, design and ideation. Open your eyes to new possibilities. To register for this class, please call the School for Professional and Continuing Studies at (410) 225-2219.

Section A Meets 3/29/2013 to 3/29/2013 on Friday from 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM.
Section A Meets 3/30/2013 to 3/30/2013 on Saturday from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM.

This one-and-a-half day workshop is intended to give students a vocabulary for working with steel wire to build structures for jewelry, accessories, and clothing. Students will learn how to solder low carbon and stainless steel with a torch and a small hand soldering iron. Layout methods, jigs, surface finishing will be covered as well as methods for create “settings” for stones and other objects in steel. Students will view demonstrations on Friday afternoon and then be assisted in making their own structure on Saturday. Lola Brooks is currently the Lamar Dodd Professorial Chair at the University of Georgia. She has taught at RISD, University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Penland School of Crafts, and Haystack Mountain School of Crafts. Her work crosses boundaries between fine art, contemporary craft, and fashion. Her work has appeared in American Craft, Metalsmith, Vogue, and Lucky magazines. She has worked with Jay McCarroll (winner of season 1 Project Runway) to create statement accessories for one of his first NY runway shows and has a number of celebrity clients for her production work. Lola Brooks will also be giving a lecture: Love and Other Indoor Sports Friday, March 29: lecture at Falvey Hall 12 -1pm