This class has been canceled.We apologize for the inconvenience.
Are you ready to make a piece of jewelry that is more complex and refined?
In this class, you will apply the fabrication techniques and tools that you already know to create one or more pieces of your own design. The instructor will help you evaluate your design; create a pattern; identify materials; outline the steps needed to make your piece; and coach you through the process of completing it.
Bring your design ideas and any materials you have to the first class. A limited variety of materials will be available for purchase: sterling silver sheet and wire as well as copper and brass sheet and wire.
This class is for people with intermediate fabrication skills.
Participants should plan on attending Open Studios between classes.
Supplies Needed:
Details:
Instructor:
Joan Hammond began working in metal in 1994 when she started taking metalsmithing classes as an antidote to documenting computer software. What she discovered was a medium that not only utilized her previous training in painting, printmaking, and ceramics but also opened the possibilities of creating art that can be worn. Family artifacts and history, plants and animals, and the textiles and jewelry of non-Western cultures inspire her current work, which she executes using various fabrication techniques, including chasing and repoussé.
Hammond exhibits locally and nationally, and her work has been published in Metalsmith magazine’s Exhibition in Print. She is a member of the Seattle Metals Guild; has served on the Board of Northwest Designer craftsmen; and co-chaired a national conference for the Society of North American Goldsmiths. She is currently the Lead for the Jewelry and Fine Metals Studio at BARN.
This two-session introduction to the art of inlay covers traditional techniques to create modern, contemporary designs.
Make a pendant of sterling silver and learn how to cut lapidary material for inlay. You have several pendant shapes to choose from. We'll discuss what goes into creating an inlay design, and learn setting and polishing techniques.
Your kit will include enough sterling silver to make three small pendants or one or two larger pendants. If you only finish one in class, you will have enough material left to practice during future open studios.
Day 1: Fabrication. Because you already know how to fabricate bezels, a quick/ lite version of a demo is offered. Then you start your inlay - cutting and assembling.
Day 2: Continue inlay work and finish your new pendant.
Karin Luvaas - This island artist and jeweler has an art degree in encaustics, painting, and metal sculpture. She has studied under acclaimed jewelry masters Michael Boyd, Kent Raible, Petra Class, and Sarah Graham and achieved Graduate Jeweler status under Alan Revere of the world-renowned Revere Academy of San Francisco. Karin is a GIA-certified Graduate Gemologist and holds a Jewelers of America Bench Jeweler Technician certificate.
Karin’s current work can be viewed at karinluvaas.com
Contact: [email protected]
Learn a basic, two-hole bead weaving technique to create a flowing beaded rope.
Learn or review the basics of bead weaving while creating a beautiful woven rope.
This bead-woven rope is created using special two-holed super duo beads. Beads with two through holes require a unique weaving pattern that results in a beautiful, flowing finished product. You will learn the basic pattern and techniques in class and be able to finish the piece at home or in a beading open studio session.
Students each receive a supply packet which includes everything needed to finish one bead woven necklace.
Chris Eisenberg discovered beading while recovering from an accident and the resulting traumatic brain injury. Beading was her therapy and she credits it for helping her become whole again. Chris has a doctorate in classical piano performance from the University of Northern Colorado and is a performance coach and collaborator at Central Washington University. She has previously taught workshops at the Autumn Artist Retreat and in the Iron Mountain Arts studio near Port Gamble.
This class has been canceled. We apologize for the inconvenience. 1/27/23 CR
This three-session class introduces you to different types of intermediate cutting styles and gets you more time on the wheels perfecting your cabochons!
Learn how to cut and polish stones in new ways. Points, facets, flat surfaces, and integrating natural stone surfaces are covered.
All base materials are provided. You are welcome to bring any stones of your own that you have questions about or want to try cutting.
Karin Luvaas is a Bainbridge Island artist and jeweler with an art degree in encaustics, painting and metal sculpture. She has studied under acclaimed jewelry masters Michael Boyd, Kent Raible, Petra Class, and Sarah Graham and achieved Graduate Jeweler status under Alan Revere of the world-renowned Revere Academy of San Francisco, Calif. Karin also is a GIA Graduate Gemologist and holds a Jewelers of America Bench Jeweler Technician certificate.
Learn through instructor demonstration and guided, hands-on practice how to safely set up a soldering station, ignite your torch, anneal, and begin to solder metal together.
This is an opportunity to work with the industry-standard Smith® Little Torch and propane/oxygen torch during this one-day class.
The skills learned in this class help you feel more comfortable and confident in our studio or yours and ready you for project classes. This class also helps you acquire a studio skills card for access to the torches during jewelry open studio times. You get to take home your soldering sample exercises and handouts for future practice and revision.
Instructor Bio:
Sarah Jones - This Bainbridge Island artist and teacher has experience in fine metal arts, jewelry, ceramics, sculpture, stained glass, and photography. She is a BARN founding member and Jewelry Studio programming and steering committee member.
Because Sarah is a visual and tactile learner herself, her classes typically involve a lot of hands-on learning and printed information and resources for her students to refer to when practicing their new skills.
Sarah’s art has been displayed in the Seattle Metals Guild and Bainbridge Arts & Craft exhibitions. Her work is sold at Bainbridge Island Museum of Art. To view her recent work, visit at: www.foggyroaddesigns.com.
This class has prerequisites. Please see the description below before registering.
This class was orginally scheduled for February 4th, please note the new class date.
Designed for students who have taken Introduction to the Jeweler's Torch and want to learn how to solder earring posts, chain links, bails, joints and mixed metals to hone their torch skills. All of these skills learned in this class, with practice, will help you feel more confident and ready for project classes.
Each student gets to take home their soldering sample exercises and handouts for future practice and revision.
Sarah Jones is a BARN founding member, jewelry studio programming and steering committee member. She is a local Bainbridge Island artist, and teacher with experience in fine metal arts, jewelry, ceramics, sculpture, stained glass, and photography.
Because Sarah is a visual and tactile learner herself, her classes typically involve a lot of hands-on learning time. In addition, Sarah’s classes are accompanied by printed information and resources for her students to refer back to when practicing their new skills.
Make heart-shaped jewelry pieces and satisfy your curiosity about the process of creating with precious metal clay.
About this Class
Become familiar with basic techniques and tools of working with PMC - precious metal clay, which is fine silver or gold ground extremely small and suspended in a binder to create clay.
Explore molding, texturing, and stenciling techniques. While you're at it, make some beautiful, heart-felt Valentine's Day gifts.
Project
Create personalized, heart-shaped jewelry pieces with metal clay.
PMC kits and tools will be provided along with gold/bronze metal clay to play with!
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Chris Eisenberg discovered beading while recovering from an accident and a resulting traumatic brain injury. Beading was her therapy and she credits it for helping her become whole again. Chris has a doctorate in classical piano performance from the University of Northern Colorado and is a performance coach and collaborator at Central Washington University. She has previously taught workshops at the Autumn Artist Retreat and in the Iron Mountain Arts studio near Port Gamble.
Teens (7th-12th grade), come on down to BARN for a free evening of art, friends, music, and creativity! You're not going to want to miss it. We'll have pizza and snacks and you'll get to choose from activities like cooking, woodworking, sewing, jewelry making, metal working, and more - every month is a different lineup. Come with a friend or come on your own and meet new friends!
Teen Night is so popular that we're now requiring registration to ensure that there's enough food and activities for everyone!
We're grateful to the City of Bainbridge Island for their financial support so we can offer this event for teens in our community!
Learn how to add 24k gold to your creations, using an ancient Korean technique called Keum-boo.
During this project class you will make a pendant or a pair of earrings out of .999 fine silver. Then learn how to bond 24k gold to it creating a stunning and unique piece of wearable art.
The materials and tools needed for the project will be provided for use during this class.
BARN is committed to accessibility. Tuition Assistance is available - click here to fill out the simple application before registering for a class. For those who might need physical assistance, please learn about BARN's Companion Program here.
Sarah’s art has been displayed in the Seattle Metals Guild and Bainbridge Arts & Craft exhibitions. Her work is sold at Bainbridge Island Museum of Art. To view her recent work, visit at: www.foggyroaddesigns.com
Create a pair of uniquely enchanted earrings or a pendant using only wire and beads.
This is a great project for students with little or no experience with wire and beads. Simple shaping techniques are used to create small wire frames which are then wrapped with tiny seed beads. Students can choose bead and wire colors and also have an option to create a pendant size piece.
Students will make a pair of earrings or a pendant.
Make something special with that someone special in your life this Valentine?
Together you will learn how to use jewelers tools to cut, shape and customize your earrings, pendant or keychains. All tools, materials, chains, earring wires and gift bags will be provided.
No experience needed, all welcomed.
Open to all lovebirds ages 12 and up.
If you've ever wanted two or more of the same piece, injectable molds are a great way to go. In this class, we make silicone molds that can be injected with wax to make duplicates.
The waxes can then be cast later in one of our lost wax casting classes or independent casting sessions.
One day one, we sprue two objects, and mix and pour the RTV material. On day two, we cut the molds and inject them with wax.
Jody Lyle - A goldsmith with more than 25 years' experience designing and making jewelry, Jody graduated from the University of North Texas where she studied with Harlan Butt. She has continued her education through classes with masters, apprenticeships, trade school training, skill-building classes, and lots of bench time. She believes in learning by doing, listening to others’ experiences, and looking at how things are made around you. Her main focus right now is wax carving, fabrication, chasing, and repoussé. She works mostly with silver, gold, steel, rock, and semi-precious and precious stones to create fun and beautiful pieces to be worn and enjoyed. Her work can be seen on Instagram @movingmetals and Flickr.
This three-session class introduces you to the art of stone cutting.
Learn how to cut and polish cabochons from rough, using various cutting and polishing equipment in the process. All base materials are provided.
You're welcome to bring any stones of your own that you have questions about or want to try cutting.
Completion of this class gains you access to open studio time to use the lapidary equipment and is the prerequisite for all intermediate lapidary classes.
* This class has prerequisites. See below.
Add stone setting to your jewelry-making repertoire by learning how to make a bezel setting and how to set a cabochon stone.
You will wrap bezels, solder, fabricate a ring and set a round or oval cabochon stone. This is a great class if you want to learn how to add colorful stones to your work and increase your fabricating skills.
This is the first in the 2023 Stone Setting class series. It is a prerequisite for some of the stone setting classes that follow, because it introduces you to basic concepts and soldering techniques that will be built upon throughout the series.
This introduction to the process of lost wax casting, starting with a wax piece and finishing with a metal piece, uses an assortment of waxes and materials.
Students learn the basic skills of creating models. General information and some history on different methods of lost wax casting are covered - from the creation of a model to the completion of the metal casting. Some hands-on time is included to make a model, then students sprue and invest their model.
Pieces are burned out in time for the second class, when metal is poured. Also covered are techniques of cleaning up and finishing metal casting .
Note that while different waxes are introduced, this is not a wax carving class.
A $35 materials fee is included in the tuition price.
We take one 30-minute break if you want to bring food/ snacks. BARN has a refrigerator on the lower level to store your lunch.
Please click here for BARN's current COVID-19 health & safety protocols.
Instructors:
Karin Lee Luvaas - This island artist and jeweler has an art degree in encaustics, painting, and metal sculpture. She has studied under acclaimed jewelry masters Michael Boyd, Kent Raible, Petra Class, and Sarah Graham and achieved Graduate Jeweler status under Alan Revere of the world-renowned Revere Academy of San Francisco. Karin is a GIA-certified Graduate Gemologist and holds a Jewelers of America Bench Jeweler Technician certificate. Her work can be viewed on Instagram @karinluvaas.
Jody Lyle - A goldsmith with more than 25 years' experience designing and making jewelry, Jody graduated from the University of North Texas where she studied with Harlan Butt. She has continued her education with classes with masters, apprenticeships, trade school training, skill-building classes, and lots of bench time. She believes in learning by doing, listening to others’ experiences, and looking at how things are made around you. Her main focus right now is wax carving, fabrication, chasing, and repoussé. She works mostly with silver, gold, steel, rock, semi-precious and precious stones. Her work can be seen on Instagram @movingmetals and Flickr.
Create three-dimensional geometric designs and figurative drawings from a flat sheet of metal using these techniques.
This class explores chasing and repoussé techniques. You’ll learn methods for transferring a line drawing onto sheet metal. Then, following the pattern or drawing on your metal, you’ll create dimension by “pushing” the raised portions of your design from the back of the metal using repoussé punches. From the front side, you’ll complete the design by refining the shapes, and adding texture and detail using chasing tools.
You will transfer a line drawing to form a pattern and then create a raised design on metal.
Students should bring:
This is a beginning/intermediate level class. Students should know how to saw, pierce, drill, anneal, and file metal. Riveting and soldering skills are helpful, but not required.
Ages 14 and up are welcome.
View BARN’s current COVID-19 health and safety protocols.
BARN is committed to accessibility. Tuition assistance is available. Fill out the application before registering.
For those who might need physical assistance, learn more about our Companion Program.
Joan Hammond began working in metal in 1994, when she started taking metalsmithing classes as an antidote to documenting computer software. What she discovered was a medium that not only used her training in painting, printmaking, and ceramics, but also opened the possibilities of creating art that can be worn. Family artifacts and history, plants and animals, and the textiles and jewelry of non-Western cultures inspire her current work, which she executes using various fabrication techniques, including chasing and repoussé.
Hammond exhibits locally and nationally. Her work has been published in Metalsmith magazine’s Exhibition in Print. She is a member of the Seattle Metals Guild.
Add faceted gemstones to your work by setting small to medium stones using the flex-shaft, burs, files, burnishers, and pushers.
Choose from a selection of jewelry items like a ring, pendant, or tie pin. A tube setting is similar to a bezel setting, which makes this a natural introduction to faceted stone setting. This type of setting holds the stone securely by compressing the tube walls down over the outer edge of the stone while supporting from beneath.
Tube setting can be a quick, reliable, and versatile addition to your growing jewelry techniques.This class focuses on the mechanics of securing a faceted stone and on the process of setting that stone, although we talk about materials and building options. This isn’t a fabricating class, but you should go home with a finished product to keep or gift. It can be a challenging class, so it is recommended that you take the basic bezel class, but it is open for all who are interested.
This two-session class introduces you to different types of intermediate cutting styles and gets you more time on the wheels perfecting your cabochons!
Become familiar with the Jewelry Studio space and tools. Students of all levels learn how to safely and efficiently use jeweler's tools through instructor demonstration and guided, hands-on practice.
Start with a studio tour/facility walk-through and learn about the studio's guidelines, safety protocols and policies. Learn how to order materials and tools, acquire a jewelry studio skills card, and all about our open studio.
The skills covered include how to safely use a jeweler’s saw, bench shear, step shear, disc cutters, files, hammer identification, stamping tools, dapping tools, pliers, rolling mill, flex shaft, and buffing wheel. All of these skills will help you feel more comfortable and confident in our studio or yours and ready you for project classes. Each student takes home their sample exercises and handouts for future practice and revision.
This class is a prerequisite for other Jewelry Studio classes.
Bring your design ideas to life with Champlevé!
Champlevé is a process of filling cells with enamel and dates back to the 2nd century BC. These cells can be carved, etched, or pierced. In this class you will learn how to saw out your designs, solder and enamel the pieces to create colorful pieces of jewelry.
We will be working in copper with opaque enamels.
Soldering skills are recommended but not required.
$35 materials fee is included in the tuition.
We will take one 15-30 minute break if you want to bring food/ snacks. BARN has a refrigerator to store your lunch, located on the lower level.
Karin Lee Luvaas is a local Bainbridge Island artist and jeweler. With an art degree in encaustics, painting and metal sculpture, Karin has studied under acclaimed jewelry masters Michael Boyd, Kent Raible, Petra Class, and Sarah Graham and achieved Graduate Jeweler status under Alan Revere of the world renowned Revere Academy of San Francisco, Calif. Karin is also a GIA certified Graduate Gemologist and holds a Jewelers of America Bench Jeweler Technician certificate. Karin’s current work can be viewed on Instagram @karinluvaas.
This class has a prerequisite. Please read the details below before you register.
This is an exciting opportunity to practice casting your own work in precious metals. This is a hands-on experience that is more like an open studio as opposed to a class, as participants do every step in the casting process themselves. Students need to be well versed and comfortable with the process.
Introduction to Lost Wax Casting. This class is offered Feb. 25-26. If you've If you've had lost wax centrifugal casting class in the last two years in which you poured your own metal, email us here to get instructor approval.
Payment for this independent casting includes one or two flasks equal to 500 grams of investment.
If you choose to cast more than two flasks, bring cash or a check to pay for the extra investment used.
Please provide your own metal. Bronze or sterling are the most often cast materials. If you are using scrap, please clean and remove all solder beforehand. You can cast in gold if you choose.
Session 1: Investing. Please arrive with your pieces sprued, weighed (don't forget to record your wax weight and bring it), and attached to the sprue base. Please attend an open studio on Monday or Wednesday PRIOR to this session to complete your sprue work. We have a casting locker for you to store your sprued flask.
Session 2: Casting. Arrive with your clean, pre-weighed metal and appropriate casting attire. Teams of two will take turns casting until we finish. Everyone helps to clean up on both days.
This two-session class will introduce you to the art of stone cutting.
Learn how to cut and polish cabochons from rough, using various cutting and polishing equipment in the process. All base materials will be provided.
Students are welcome to bring any stones of their own that they have questions about or want to try cutting.
Completion of this introductory class gains you access to open studio time to use the lapidary equipment. This class also is the prerequisite for all intermediate lapidary classes.
Karin Luvaas is a Bainbridge Island artist and jeweler with an art degree in encaustics, painting, and metal sculpture. She has studied under acclaimed jewelry masters Michael Boyd, Kent Raible, Petra Class, and Sarah Graham and achieved Graduate Jeweler status under Alan Revere of the world-renowned Revere Academy of San Francisco. Karin also is a GIA Graduate Gemologist and holds a Jewelers of America Bench Jeweler Technician certificate. Her current work can be viewed at karinluvaas.com.
* This class has a prerequisite. Please see below.
Learn traditional inlay techniques to create modern, contemporary designs in this two-session introduction to the art of inlay.
Make a ring made of sterling silver and learn how to cut lapidary material for inlay. Choose from several ring shapes, discuss what goes into creating an inlay design, and learn setting and polishing techniques.
Your kit will include enough sterling silver to make two small rings or one larger ring. If you only finish one during class, enough material will be left to practice during future open studio sessions.
Day 1: Fabrication. Because you already know how to fabricate bezels and ring shanks, a quick/ lite version of a demo is offered. Then start your inlay - cutting and assembling.
Explore bezel making for stones with angles, working in silver.
Fitting a bezel for a pear, rectangular, or otherwise angular shape can be intimidating, but it doesn’t have to be. With the provided stones and metal, you can learn how to form an angular bezel and solder it to a backing to make a ring or simple pendant. Once your piece is built and finished, we focus on how to set our stones.
Jody Lyle - A goldsmith with more than 25 years' experience designing and making jewelry, Jody graduated from the University of North Texas where she studied with Harlan Butt. She has continued her education through classes with masters, apprenticeships, trade school training, skill-building classes, and lots of bench time. She believes in learning by doing, listening to others’ experiences, and looking at how things are made around you. Her main focus right now is wax carving, fabrication, chasing, and repoussé. She works mostly with silver, gold, steel, rock, and semi-precious and precious stones to create fun and beautiful pieces to be worn and enjoyed. Her work can be seen on Instagram @movingmetals and Flickr
This is an opportunity to work with the industry-standard Smith® Little Torch and propane/oxygen torch during this two-day evening class.
Further develop your stone-setting skills by learning how to set faceted stones in thick wall settings.
You will learn to set faceted stones using the tools of the trade in this skills class. We will be setting round- and square- (princess cut) faceted stone in thick wall settings using gravers, burs, files, punches, and pushers. This is a type of tube or bezel setting, but you will be using more advanced-level tools to prep the seat and move the metal. These skills come in very handy if you want to set stones in a stiffer material like 14k gold, or carved bezels, and if you want to set faceted stones that have corners. The techniques learned in this class will improve your faceted stone-setting understanding and skills. This isn’t a fabrication class and we will be setting stones in prepared settings.
Stone Setting 1 - Basic Bezels and all of its prerequisites. If you have learned the needed skills somewhere else or at an earlier time, please contact us at [email protected]
Ages 14 and up are welcome. (unless otherwise specified in class details, in which case omit)
Learn to design, carve, cut, weld, and file away wax to expose your model that can be used in the metal casting process.
None, but access to casting is recommended. The casting or molding of finished wax is not included in this class.
Jody Lyle is a goldsmith with more than 25 years' experience designing and making jewelry. She graduated from the University of North Texas where she studied with Harlan Butt. She has continued her education through classes with masters, apprenticeships, trade-school training, skill-building classes, and lots of bench time. She believes in learning by doing, listening to others’ experiences, and looking at how things are made around you. Her main focus right now is wax carving, fabrication, chasing, and repoussé. She works mostly with silver, gold, steel, rock, and semi-precious and precious stones to create fun and beautiful pieces to be worn and enjoyed. Her work can be seen on Instagram @movingmetals and Flickr
Add stone setting to your jewelry-making repertoire by learning how to make a bezel setting and set a cabochon stone.
This is the first in the 2023 Stone Setting class series. It is prerequisite for most of the stone setting classes that follow, because it introduces you to basic concepts and soldering techniques that will be built upon throughout the series.
Jody Lyle is a goldsmith with more than 25 years' experience designing and making jewelry. She graduated from the University of North Texas where she studied with Harlan Butt. She has continued her education through classes with masters, apprenticeships, trade school training, skill-building classes, and lots of bench time. She believes in learning by doing, listening to others’ experiences, and looking at how things are made around you. Her main focus right now is wax carving, fabrication, chasing, and repoussé. She works mostly with silver, gold, steel, rock, and semi-precious and precious stones to create fun and beautiful pieces to be worn and enjoyed. Her work can be seen on Instagram @movingmetals and Flickr.
