Jewelry Arts Institute is live on YouTube

April 21, 2012

I’m happy to report that lovers of jewelry making can now watch instructional  videos on our brand new YouTube channel. http://www.youtube.com/user/JewelryArts?feature=mhee Here is the first in the series…  

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Jewelry Arts Institute named one of Top 50 Fashion Schools Across the Globe

April 15, 2012

Hi all, I am so proud to announce that Jewelry Arts Institute has been chosen as one of the Top 50 fashion schools across the globe!!  You can click on the link below to read all about the nice things they had to say about us.  I just had to share this with you all. […]

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Jewelry Arts Institute’s Student of the Week-Barbara Clayton

June 28, 2011

Congratulations to our latest Student of the Week- Barbara Clayton.  I thought we might continue our discussion on jumprings with these striking earrings.  Barbara did a fabulous job with these earrings, letting the stones be the star.  To allow the stones to keep center stage, the jumprings have to do their job as well as […]

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Jewelry Arts Institute’s Student of the Week- Sheila Gudis

June 21, 2011

Congratulations to our latest Student of the Week- Sheila Gudis.  These beautiful dangling earrings depend on one key element-jumprings to bring everything together.  In all my years of teaching, I don’t think any one topic induces such fear and loathing in students as jumprings.  I thought maybe I would offer a few tips to make […]

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Jewelry Arts Institute’s Student of the Week- Kate Sheehan

June 14, 2011

Congratulations to our latest Student of the Week- Kate Sheehan.  We have been so caught up in our big move (to 22 East 49th Street Fourth Floor NY NY 10017) that I haven’t written a new Student of the Week in a couple of weeks.  Now that we are settling in, I’m ready to get […]

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We have Moved to Midtown!!!

June 4, 2011

I am delighted to report that we are up and running at our new larger studio at 22 East 49th Street Fourth Floor NY NY 10017.  We have lots of new school projects to go along with our new space so I’m posting a photo of one and here is the link to look at […]

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Jewelry Arts Institute’s Student of the Week- Julia Parish.

May 10, 2011

Congratulations to our latest Student of the Week-Julia Parish.   This fabulous pendant is really all about the bezels and stones.  The  sharp, clean angles in the bezel of the center quartz stone is juxtaposed with the rough set, rose cut diamonds.  Talking about bezels is a recurrent theme since they are such a common element […]

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Jewelry Arts Institute’s Student of the Week- Julie Low

May 3, 2011

  Congratulations to our latest Student of the Week- Julie Low.  This fabulous granulated pendant is all the more impressive when you know that this was made during Julie’s second semester.  That isn’t a lot of classes to be accomplishing something on this level.  We have discussed granulation recently so I thought we could go over […]

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Jewelry Arts Institute’s Student of the Week-Patricia Smiley

April 26, 2011

Congratulations to our latest Student of the Week- Patricia Smiley.  I have been teaching this project to students for years but Patricia’s version turned out so beautifully it inspired me to turn it into an official school project.  Let’s go over some of the techniques Patricia used to make it so beautiful.   It’s best […]

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Jewelry Arts Institute’s Student of the Week- Amanda Michel

April 12, 2011

Congratulations to our latest Student of the Week- Amanda Michel.  This fantastic necklace was the result of a lot of dedicated effort.  I thought we could discuss some  of the techniques Amanda used to make it turn out so beautifully. All of Amanda’s links are made of fine silver,  so she fused them shut rather […]

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