Create a bracelet a day using different techniques, tools, and equipment. Explore the use of the rolling mill, hydraulic press, punches, and hammers to embellish the surfaces of your bracelets. Using a torch and patinas, learn to add color to your designs. Leave the week with a treasure chest of bracelets. All levels welcome.

Forge and fabricate hollow-form critters from mild steel. Bears, bugs, squirrels, birds, or fish–if it walks, flies, swims, or slithers you can create it in a realistic or expressive style. Enthusiastic students of any level who are comfortable working with their hands and willing to work hard are invited to join us for this fun and challenging class.

Begin the journey towards beautiful metal embossing (repujado). Experiment with aluminum, copper, and pewter, creating a sampler of embossing techniques and styles suitable for display. In addition to other take-home pieces, focus on an accordion book with a metal-embossed cover piece. All levels welcome.

Use tools and methods of 19th-century tinsmiths to create functional and decorative items from tin. Focus on a traditional pierced-tin lantern and, as time allows, explore other projects and possibilities. Learn how to create a pattern, lay it out, and transfer the pattern to tin. All tools and materials are provided; all skill levels welcome. $

Produce beautiful, etched copper and brass jewelry. Learn how to make a simple saltwater and battery setup, prepare the metal, create unique designs, and etch. Create pendants, beads, and other pieces that can be completed with cold connections–no soldering required–and finished with findings. Depart with your wearable art and plenty of knowledge to continue making fantastic pieces of your own at home. All levels welcome.

Add some interesting color and texture to your jewelry. Apply vitreous enamel to metal and learn several innovative enameling and metalworking techniques. Explore sifting, stenciling, corrugation, fold forming, and high fire enameling. Also, try torch firing enamels and set them in interesting traditional and nontraditional ways. All levels welcome. $

Champlevé is a specialized process whereby the artist inlays and fires enamels into recessed areas of a metal surface. Create spaces in the metal by piercing a design with a jeweler's saw, then solder the design onto a flat background. Learn fundamental champlevé processes including depletion gilding, applying metallic foils, wet packing and firing the glass in a kiln. An introduction to color theory along with some finely tuned blending and shading will further boost your enameling abilities.

Explore jewelry making fundamentals such as soldering, forming, texturing, and setting cabochon stones. Through demonstrations and project making, learn foundational skills for working with copper, brass, and sterling silver while creating your one-of-a-kind jewelry pieces. All new metalsmiths welcome as well as those of you looking to refresh your bench skills! Good eyesight, magnification, and some hand-strength necessary. $

Your metalsmithing journey begins here! For newcomers and novices, this class will open up a wealth of knowledge for learning the skills behind fabrication and forming of metal into wearable and sculptural artwork. Demonstrations will include how to design, saw, solder, sand, polish, and texture precious metals. Leave the week with a great foundation to build upon for future endeavors in the metal arts.

Construct a unique and whimsical, copper-clad birdhouse as a home for birds or as a decorative element for your own nest. Working with thin copper foil, learn various ways to texture and form the metal, apply liquid enamels, and torch-fire for color. Attach the metal pieces to a wooden base for structure and have fun enhancing it with small found objects. All levels welcome. $

Create unique hanging jewelry for your garden or porch with copper tubing, copper sheet, and found objects. Scale up basic jewelry-making techniques like coiling, sawing, soldering, and cold connections to create rain chains and tree or porch dangles. Add extra whimsy and personality to your chain by wire-wrapping upcycled glass or metal charms into the links. No experience required; good hand strength is a must.

Empower and build your confidence working in a blacksmithing shop while learning various metalsmithing techniques. Plan and create a small project during class which will incorporate steel and bronze. Expect instruction in coal forge maintenance, tool use, forge welding, and metal casting. All levels welcome.

Experience making four different copper boxes: a round ring box, an oval ring box, a Shaker dovetail box, and a square box. Learn or practice soldering, riveting, jewelry sawing, and casting small handles. Motivated students can make more than one of each box. All levels welcome. $

Create whimsical and elegant sculptures that hang in your garden using copper tubing, sheet, wire, and found objects. Scale up basic jewelry-making techniques like coiling, sawing, soldering, and cold connections to create rain chains, tree dangles, and mobiles. Add extra whimsy and personality to your hangings by incorporating upcycled glass or metal “charms” into the links. All levels welcome, but good hand strength is a must. $