About
Successfully completing this hour-long session will grant access for BARN members and guests to the Jewelry & Fine Metals Studio for working independently on projects of your choosing during monitored Open Studio hours only. Monitored Open Studio sessions are free to members and $20 for guests.
If you need a refresher rather than an assessment, check out our skills classes. They're designed for all experience levels to become more comfortable and confident in any jewelry studio and ready for project classes.
Bring a towel for cleanup.
What to expect
- Bring a sample of your recently made jewelry to help showcase your skills (photos not accepted). You'll showcase this work at the start of your assessment.
- You'll be shown where things are located in the studio so you can set up for your demo(s).
- You'll be asked to explain the steps you're taking, and demonstrate proper use of the tools/equipment and complete a sample to showcase your understanding of safety and use.
- Be prepared to set up and tear down your work space for all the skills you demo.
- If you meet the skills and safety requirements, you'll get a skills card that indicates that you can use that equipment during Open Studio.
- If it's decided that a refresher class is needed, you'll need to complete that class before getting a skills card. Once you have the skills card, your fob will be activated.
Skills
Be sure you have stated which of the following skills you'd like to be assessed on:
- Soldering: Demonstrate sweat, joint, post.
- Flex Shaft: Demonstrate drilling, sanding, or polishing.
- Rolling Mill: Demonstrate rolling a found texture.
- Disk Cutter, Dapping: Demonstrate cutting some metal and dap.
- Buffing Wheels: Demonstrate polishing.
- Shears: Demonstrate cutting metal.
- Drill Press: Demonstrate drilling.
- Hand Tools such as disk and shape cutters, dapping blocks and punches (discussion).
- Chemical handling (discussion).
Specialty
The special skills listed below, and their associated equipment require a separate assessment. These skills can't be combined with the items listed above due to time constraints.
- Enameling: Demonstrate preparing metal, enameling, kiln, finishing.
- Lapidary: Demonstrate cut, cab, dop, finish (bring your own towels for cleaning up).
- Casting, investing, wax carving (this requires two or three sessions with additional fees): Demonstrate carve, sprue, weigh, invest, cast.
- Hydraulic press: Demonstrate set up and use.
- Chasing and repoussé, hammers and stakes: Demonstrate set up and use.
- Grinders: Demonstrate grinding.
- GRS tools: Demonstrate set up and use.
