Classes and Kid's Camps

We have opened our studio space to jewelry classes!

Laura Lady previously taught at the Art's Center of the Capital Region, and River Rocks and Beads. She also regularly teaches happy hour jewelry making events at local breweries, cideries and distilleries including Rare Form and Nine Pin Cider. She loves sharing her passion for jewelry making and her strong background in the industry coupled with her schooling from the prestigious New Approach School for Jewelers make her the perfect bubbly fun and knowledgable guide. 

 

As part of the generous COVID relief grant given to us by the city of Albany, and Capitalize Albany, we have been able to equip our studio space with a state of the art HEPA air filtration device, professional level polishing equipment, student jewelry work stations, lost wax casting equipment, glassworking equipment, electroforming equipment, soldering equipment and 3D rendering technology, to name a few things!  

Our teaching studio at 40 Broadway, is conveniently located off of 787, with ample off street parking. 

 

We are pleased to announce we are now offering one-on-one intensives to run monthly. Intensives are eight hours of instruction and include all materials, tools and access to the studio space.

Intensives are geared towards students who have some experience with jewelry making, and are particularly helpful when prospective applicants have a medium they'd like to learn to work in, or a specific project in mind. 
I have taught intensives with children, and with adults, in varying levels of jewelry making, from wire wrapping to  lost wax casting, to everything in between.
Think of it as a small, intimate, independent study, but instead of a multiple week program of a few hours each week, this is multiple hours, squeezed into just one day. 
Our studio boasts a wide array of equipment and materials. As this is a smaller instruction program, we will be sending out an email questionnaire prior to class commencement to ensure that we have all of the necessary raw materials on site to complete the projects/learn the skill set. 
For more advanced students, it is nice to note that we do have several GRS Benchmates in house, as well as a GraverMach exclusively for student use, which means, dependent on prior experience and skill level, intensives could include advanced stone setting work such as bead setting, thread-set and pave.

Additionally, we have opened up the roster to half day kid's summer camps.  Our summer camps are run with a flexible teaching schedule, to encourage children to learn more about jewelry making. It is a STEAM based curriculum, and we go over the projects together as a group, and ask that the campers try the project once, and if they don't enjoy it they can move on to something else.

 

Some images of projects previous campers have made are below. Projects include a variety of mediums and techniques including, but not limited to, wire working/cold fusion techniques, electroforming (using electricity and polarization to create metalworked jewelry), torch soldering, making stacking rings... the list goes on. 

PLEASE NOTE: OUR KIDS CAMPS CAN ONLY RUN IF WE HAVE ENOUGH STUDENTS. IF CAMPS DO NOT RUN, PARENTS HAVE THE OPTION OF DOING AN INTENSIVE IN LIEU OF THE WEEK LONG KIDS CAMPS 

Big Kid's Camps (ages 9-11)    and our Pre & Teen Camps (ages12-17).                                 AUGUST 8-12                                            AUGUST 1-5

 

 

 

Waiver will be sent out for both the one-on-one intensives and the kid's summer camps to the email addresses provided at time of purchase.