Jewelry Making and Repair - North Bennet Street School

Jewelry Making and Repair from North Bennet Street School is a Campus Certificate Jewelry degree that prepares you for a Art and Design career. North Bennet Street School teaches the time-honored skills, ideas, and values of fine craftsmanship through intensive hands-on training. The Jewelry Making and Repair program\\\\\\\'s inspiring curriculum, supportive environment, and master faculty encourage individual growth, a commitment to excellence, an appreciation for beauty, as well as technical mastery. This program attracts students from around the world who share a love of materials, artistic expression, and the intelligence of hands to make jewelry that transcends time. Curriculum The fine art of jewelry fabrication and stone setting requires exceptional hand skills, focus, and a thorough understanding of materials, which develops with years of experience with metal and stones. NBSS?s intensive, 72-week program provides an efficient, thorough foundation in the fundamental knowledge and technical skills of jewelry making and repair that prepares students to quickly enter the workforce as professional jewelers. The Jewelry Making and Repair program is designed to develop the competent jewelry ?mechanic,? providing a thorough understanding of the characteristics of metal and stones, and the skills to create and repair jewelry . An ability to do focused, careful work is extremely important since students must work with material that has great monetary value and is often irreplaceable because of sentimental attachment. Students challenge themselves to constantly fine-tune their skills and expand their knowledge. Through a series of hands-on projects, each requiring new skills and building on previous learning, students will develop proficiency in: Working with tools of the trade Metals and stones Metal forming techniques Polishing, soldering, engraving Silver and gold fabrication Wax model making Jewelry repair Advanced construction of jewelry Stone setting Repair work is an essential and on-going part of jewelry making. Students are strongly encouraged to develop their skills in repair techniques and will learn to re-size rings, repair their own pieces, as well as jewelry belonging to real clients. Having solid experience in repair work increases the artisan?s marketability in the industry and also provides a deeper understanding of workable designs. After just a few months of training, many NBSS students have the confidence and skills to pursue professional part-time repair work in the hours after class. Employment Graduates of the Jewelry Making and Repair program often begin work as bench jewelers in trade and retail shops, in various aspects of the trade, such as repair, custom design and fabrication, stone setting, and reproduction of classic jewelry . Many of our alumni are self-employed. View more details on North Bennet Street School . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Jewelry courses.