CT School Of Jewelry Art

CT School of Jewelry Art Studio

WINTER 2012 CLASSES

JEWELRY I

Learn the basic skills needed to begin designing and fabricating your own handmade jewelry! No previous experience necessary. Techniques for sawing, piercing, soldering, and polishing silver will be introduced. You will complete at least one project, which will include learning how to bezel set a stone. Your final piece will be of jewelry store quality that you can wear or give with pride! Please bring a $30 materials fee and a one time $15 lab fee to the first class.

CLASS A : with Emilie Cohen

8 Wednesdays beginning Jan. 11th- 7:00 to 10:00 pm. Tuition $305

CLASS B: with Michael Pundy

8 Mondays beginning Jan. 9th- 12:00 to 3:00 pm. Tuition $305

JEWELRY II

Continue to build on the skills you learned in jewelry I. Many new forming techniques will be taught, including use of a hydraulic press, fold-forming, and more advanced constructing. Students will work at their own pace, exploring ever-more advanced techniques. The instructors will guide and encourage students as they find their own "voice" as jewelry designers. Please bring a $20.00 materials fee and a one-time $15.00 lab fee to the first class. Open studio time is included in tuition.

Class C: (with Emilie Cohen)

8 Mondays beginning Jan.9th- 7:00 to 10:00 pm. Tuition $305

Class D: (with Michael Pundy)

8 Tuesdays beginning Jan. 10th- 12:00 to 3:00 pm. Tuition $305
Class E: (with Emilie Cohen)

8 Thursdays beginning Jan. 12th- 7:00 to 10:00 pm. Tuition $305
Class F: (with Michael Pundy)
8 Thursdays beginning Jan. 12th- 12:00 to 3:00 pm. Tuition $305

Open Studio

Open Studio time will now be available from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm on selected Saturdays. The studio will be monitored, but no instruction will be given. Prerequisite: Completion of a jewelry II class at CSJA. Hours will be announced during weekly classes, or call for details.

$25 per session, (free for current jewelry II students).

Workshops

Jewelry II Student Hard at Work

Faceted Stone Setting Basics
with Raychel Wengenroth                                                                                                                                                                  $95

     This one day workshop will introduce students to the basics of setting round faceted stones in prong, tube and flush settings.
Demonstrations will be followed by hands-on samples by the students. Participants will learn 4 settings during the class and
all materials will be provided.

Experience: Basics skills including soldering, sawing and the use of the flexible shaft.
Materials fee: $15.00
Date: Sat Jan.14th, 2012 snow date Jan. 15th-10am to 4pm

Fold Forming

with EmilieCohen $95

     Fold Forming is a technique using hammers, mallets, fingers, hands, anvils and rolling mills to create high relief's from single
sheets of metal. You will discover the plasticity of metal, and open new doors to metal forming techniques which rapidly
effects changes in the form and surface of the metal.

Experience: None.
Materials fee: $10.00
Date: Sat Feb. 11th, 2012 snow date Feb. 12th -10am to 4pm

Who We Are...

Emilie Cohen

Emilie Cohen is a professional jeweler with 30 years of experience working as a metalsmith. She actively exhibits her work in juried shows throughout the country. Emilie earned her B.F.A. from the School of Visual Arts in New York and her Art Teacher Certification from CCSU. She taught jewelry classes at the Farmington Valley Arts Center for 16 years before leaving to start her own school.

Michael Pundy

Michael Pundy is well known in the area as a craftsperson, a wood worker and a jeweler. Mike worked with wood and metal for 15 years before turning his talents to jewelry making in 1997. Trained under Emilie Cohen, Mike is a partner at the Connecticut School for Jewelry Arts, where he makes beautiful jewelry when he is not teaching classes.

For enrollment and more information contact:

Emilie Cohen or Michael Pundy

The Connecticut School Of Jewelry Art

108 Main St., Collinsville, CT 06019

(860) 693-9427

ctschjewelryart@aol.com

Emilie Cohen and Michael Pundy Jewelry

Visit cohenpundy.com to purchase jewelry