Create Your Collection - 1080 hours
	Build Your Brand - 2400 hours

Create Your Collection - 1080 hours - $17,920.00

Fine Jewelry School offers a 9-month intensive course for serious students looking to create their own line of jewelry. The Create Your Collection program inspires creative minds that wish to see their ideas come to fruition. During this program, students translate their inspirations into jewelry designs, learn about jewelry history, and understand basic rendering fundamentals. Student skill level can range from beginning to intermediate.

This is a comprehensive jewelry fabrication course. During the approximate nine months students spend working and learning how to create their own collection, the extensive curriculum will enable them to discover and hone their design aesthetic, learn the diverse skills needed to take the next step into professional jewelry making.

During the Create Your Collection program, students will:

Build Your Brand - 2400 hours - $36,860.00

The comprehensive 2-year Build Your Brand program not only teaches you how to become an excellent jeweler, but an excellent businessperson as well. This curriculum will be instrumental in developing a quality body of work, and learning how to turn your passion into profit.

Students are only accepted into this program after three months of work within the Create Your Collection program, a review of their body of work, and a one-on-one interview with a Fine Jewelry School instructor. If granted admission, after completion of Create Your Collection students will move into this mentored apprenticeship.

The Build Your Brand program helps designers build confidence in their design, production and business skills. Many students naturally desire to start their own business as their design and fabrication skills improve. This program ensures a student's transition from the studio into the business world.

In Build Your Brand, students will work closely with instructors to set specific goals for their development, build their business plans, and develop the most efficient way to accomplish their dreams in the jewelry industry. They will focus not only on expanding their jewelry fabrication skills with more advanced techniques, but further develop their business aptitude. Fine Jewelry School will help students develop relationships in the industry and prepare for the launch of a fine jewelry collection.

During this two year period at Fine Jewelry School, will provide students with all the tools necessary to succeed in the jewelry industry. Receive a certificate of completion and exhibit in a solo show in the Kristin Hanson Gallery.

During the Build Your Brand program, students will: