San Diego Jewelry Lab offers live, instructor-led interactive online classes covering a wide range of the jewelry/metals field, from beginner topics to advanced specialty techniques such as mokume gane chisel-patterning and keum boo. We also host free, interactive metal arts events featuring tips & tricks, guest artists, metal arts history, live studio tours and more.
Until we can travel again, join us online - all classes include a free side of virtual warm sand and sunshine.
Until we can travel again, join us online - all classes include a free side of virtual warm sand and sunshine.
Free Events
Online Sawing Circle Every Tuesday
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When: Tuesdays 5-7pm Pacific Time - Attend as much or as little as you like
Where: Online via Zoom Cost: FREE Our Sawing Circle is like a book club but instead of reading, we work on cool stuff, help each other with problems, share ideas and provide accountability for ongoing work. If you've been looking for support for moving forward on your projects during quarantine then this is the online gathering for you. Join us from your studio to work in the good conversation and company of like-minded friends. Totally free, no need to RSVP, simply make yourself a snack, settle at your bench and click the link on our home page to join in. We're also looking for volunteers to fill in one night a month to help take our Sawing Circle weekly. Interested? Fill out our Volunteer Form. |
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Metal Arts Adventures #26: Details coming soon
May 20th from 5-6pm Pacific Daylight Time
Meet & Greet starts at 4:45pm.
Online via Zoom
We're still putting together our May Metal Arts Adventure but here's a hint...we'll be oogling some rare jewelry pieces collected by students, watching tool reviews and seeing some best-of-the-best student tips & tricks. As always, stick around till the end for our lively Q&A discussion of all things metal arts. MAAA is a FREE weekly online metal arts live show. In this fun, interactive gathering we offer demos, share tips & tricks, feature work by artists and students from around the world, go on virtual studio tours, discuss historical metal arts traditions and share resources. You're invited to join in! Need help with a tricky soldering job? Wondering if a tip you saw really works? Want to give us a tour of your studio or recommend an instructor? Submit a question or segment idea and we'll follow up. Send it in!
Meet & Greet starts at 4:45pm.
Online via Zoom
We're still putting together our May Metal Arts Adventure but here's a hint...we'll be oogling some rare jewelry pieces collected by students, watching tool reviews and seeing some best-of-the-best student tips & tricks. As always, stick around till the end for our lively Q&A discussion of all things metal arts. MAAA is a FREE weekly online metal arts live show. In this fun, interactive gathering we offer demos, share tips & tricks, feature work by artists and students from around the world, go on virtual studio tours, discuss historical metal arts traditions and share resources. You're invited to join in! Need help with a tricky soldering job? Wondering if a tip you saw really works? Want to give us a tour of your studio or recommend an instructor? Submit a question or segment idea and we'll follow up. Send it in!
Upcoming Classes
Twisting Mokume - Sold Out!
Live Online Workshop with Anne Wolf
June 26-27, 2021 - Saturday - Sunday 10:00am - 4:00 pm PDT
Tuition $295 + $75-$195 kit fee (+tax & shipping)
Learn to do the twist! Twist patterning is the basis for most of the precious-metal mokume rings made in the US – mine included. In this class you’ll learn exactly how I create such detailed organic patterns in my rings, all while you create an intricately patterned copper/brass cuff bracelet. (You’ll also learn why we are making bracelets rather than rings.) On the second day I’ll show two more variations on the twist – the star pattern and a more advanced pattern I call ‘mizu’ or the water pattern. According to your interest and experience level you can focus on finishing the bracelet or try one or both of these other techniques. The basic kit comes with enough copper/brass mokume rod for two or possibly all three of the techniques. For the more advanced or ambitious students you can purchase the deluxe kit, with enough additional mokume to make a silver/copper/brass bracelet. For the best experience, this class is limited to 15 students. Prior experience with annealing and forging is recommended. Get details and sign up on waiting list at Anne's site - AnnevilleStudio.com.
Live Online Workshop with Anne Wolf
June 26-27, 2021 - Saturday - Sunday 10:00am - 4:00 pm PDT
Tuition $295 + $75-$195 kit fee (+tax & shipping)
Learn to do the twist! Twist patterning is the basis for most of the precious-metal mokume rings made in the US – mine included. In this class you’ll learn exactly how I create such detailed organic patterns in my rings, all while you create an intricately patterned copper/brass cuff bracelet. (You’ll also learn why we are making bracelets rather than rings.) On the second day I’ll show two more variations on the twist – the star pattern and a more advanced pattern I call ‘mizu’ or the water pattern. According to your interest and experience level you can focus on finishing the bracelet or try one or both of these other techniques. The basic kit comes with enough copper/brass mokume rod for two or possibly all three of the techniques. For the more advanced or ambitious students you can purchase the deluxe kit, with enough additional mokume to make a silver/copper/brass bracelet. For the best experience, this class is limited to 15 students. Prior experience with annealing and forging is recommended. Get details and sign up on waiting list at Anne's site - AnnevilleStudio.com.
What's New?
Metal Arts Adventures #25: Tool Time with Tevel of Allcraft Tools in NYC
Do some virtual shopping and hang out with Tevel! Tevel is the long-time owner of Allcraft, the renowned jewelry/metals supply shop in midtown Manhattan. He'll join us to share some new and intriguing jewelry tools, and answer your tool-related questions. From rolling mills to stakes, from abrasives to kilns, Tevel knows it all! Anne will test some of his newest acquisitions live. Stick around till the end for our lively Q&A discussion of all things metal arts. Watch the video recap and view resource links.
Do some virtual shopping and hang out with Tevel! Tevel is the long-time owner of Allcraft, the renowned jewelry/metals supply shop in midtown Manhattan. He'll join us to share some new and intriguing jewelry tools, and answer your tool-related questions. From rolling mills to stakes, from abrasives to kilns, Tevel knows it all! Anne will test some of his newest acquisitions live. Stick around till the end for our lively Q&A discussion of all things metal arts. Watch the video recap and view resource links.
New Call for Art! Emerge - San Diego Jewelry Lab’s Juried Spring Exhibition
As the sun warms the earth, green things emerge, slowly unfolding their leaves.
As the cold winds depart, wild animals emerge, leaving their winter dens.
As the vaccines arrive, we too emerge, hugging friends and revisiting normalcy.
In this time and place, like none we've ever known, what does it mean to emerge?
San Diego Jewelry Lab invites all jewelry/metals arts artists to enter their work in our upcoming online exhibit "Emerge". Pieces will be juried by San Diego Jewelry Lab co-owners Anne Wolf and Ame Stanko on craftsmanship, creativity and use of the theme and our panel of instructor judges will award prizes for the best submissions. Exhibition is open to metalsmiths worldwide. Work can be any size; wearable, functional, or sculptural; made within the last year. Get details on our Emerge event page.
As the sun warms the earth, green things emerge, slowly unfolding their leaves.
As the cold winds depart, wild animals emerge, leaving their winter dens.
As the vaccines arrive, we too emerge, hugging friends and revisiting normalcy.
In this time and place, like none we've ever known, what does it mean to emerge?
San Diego Jewelry Lab invites all jewelry/metals arts artists to enter their work in our upcoming online exhibit "Emerge". Pieces will be juried by San Diego Jewelry Lab co-owners Anne Wolf and Ame Stanko on craftsmanship, creativity and use of the theme and our panel of instructor judges will award prizes for the best submissions. Exhibition is open to metalsmiths worldwide. Work can be any size; wearable, functional, or sculptural; made within the last year. Get details on our Emerge event page.
Guadalupe Home Jewelry Team Update
We are thrilled to announce that we've sailed past our Guadalupe Home Jewelry Team goal! Captained by the talented Sky Paxton, we now have works from 10 different artists on their way to the annual fundraiser auction for Guadalupe Home - a transitional shelter for pregnant and parenting mothers who find themselves homeless. See all of their beautiful pieces.
We are thrilled to announce that we've sailed past our Guadalupe Home Jewelry Team goal! Captained by the talented Sky Paxton, we now have works from 10 different artists on their way to the annual fundraiser auction for Guadalupe Home - a transitional shelter for pregnant and parenting mothers who find themselves homeless. See all of their beautiful pieces.
Metal Arts Adventures #24: Meet the Master: Norio Tamagawa and the Gods of Mt. Yahiko
Come with us to Japan to meet master mokume gane metalsmith and designated National Treasure Norio Tamagawa! We'll tour his home, work a bit in his studio and even enjoy tea hosted by his wife, who is a master in the art of the traditional Japanese tea ceremony. Afterwards we'll take a spectacular hike up Mt. Yahiko to commune with the gods of mokume (well, most of the trip is by tram...) plus, we hear stories and see some great photos from Yoko and Karen, metalsmiths who also recently visited Tsubame-Sanjo area and made their own cool metalsmithing discoveries. News alert! We are also excited to announce that we're now accepting entries for Emerge, our brand new juried online show. Read more for photos of Norio's studio.
Come with us to Japan to meet master mokume gane metalsmith and designated National Treasure Norio Tamagawa! We'll tour his home, work a bit in his studio and even enjoy tea hosted by his wife, who is a master in the art of the traditional Japanese tea ceremony. Afterwards we'll take a spectacular hike up Mt. Yahiko to commune with the gods of mokume (well, most of the trip is by tram...) plus, we hear stories and see some great photos from Yoko and Karen, metalsmiths who also recently visited Tsubame-Sanjo area and made their own cool metalsmithing discoveries. News alert! We are also excited to announce that we're now accepting entries for Emerge, our brand new juried online show. Read more for photos of Norio's studio.
"Anne's Metamorphic Mokume Gane class was great! So surprised it worked out so well being online." ~ Joe Bacik