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Class canceled: In response to updated guidance from the CDC and the Washington State Department of Health, BARN will continue to be closed through the end of April. 3/23 SK

This class has prerequisites, please see below.

Gold is one of the most universally admired and desired elements known to mankind. For this one-day workshop students will use their own old or broken jewelry to learn the how-to’s of recycling gold. Students will use a Jeweler’s Loupe and a “touch stone” with acids to separate different karats of gold in this class. Casting gold into ingots and processing the ingot by reducing, annealing, and rolling mill use will be demonstrated. Turn your broken chains, earrings, and rings into wire for new jewelry use!  

Due to changes in Federal laws regarding gold identification and its use in jewelry making we will be covering new and old hallmarks that are used with gold. Participants must provide their own gold for this class and will leave with their own gold recycled into a more useful form.

Details:

• This is an intermediate level class.
• Prerequisites: 
  Basic fabrication skills that are covered in Beginner Jewelry Skills class or torch skills that are covered in Introduction to the Jewelers Torch class.  Please see our jewelry calendar for the next offerings if you need to fulfill the prerequisites.
  
• $25 materials fee is included in the tuition.
• BARN has a refrigerator to store your lunch, located on the lower level.

Instructor: Nanz Aalund’s wide ranging career as a jewelry designer, goldsmith, and educator, began with high school shop classes. After serving as a fine jewelry designer and marketing consultant for Nordstrom, Neiman Marcus, and Tiffany & Co., Aalund taught jewelry and metals classes at the University of Washington and at the Art Institute in Seattle. Earning a Masters of Fine Art (MFA/Metals) and a Masters of Education/College and Technical Teaching Curriculum (CTTC). Her work has been exhibited both national and international since the 1980s. She authored the book, "Masters Gold,” published by Lark Books in 2009 and her most recent publication, “A Jeweler’s Guide to Apprenticeship” published in 2017 for MJSA, received a Silver Medal in the national AM&P Excel Awards, in 2018.

Nanz Aalund, certifications@bainbridgebarn.org

Contact: Jewelry.Lead@BainbridgeBARN.org