Find The Fundamentals - 36 hours
	Broaden Your Basics - 120 hours
	Discover Your Direction - 240 hours
	Develop Your Design - 480 hours

Find The Fundamentals - 36 hours

Kristin Hanson Fine Jewelry School offers an introductory course for students who want to create and discover fundamental jewelry techniques. This program has been established for inspired creatives that have never delved into the jewelry fabrication arena and would like to do a little exploration of this exciting discipline. It offers someone with a full-time job or other commitments the flexibility they need to complete their coursework. As a student in this program you will have the opportunity to complete three pieces of your design while fulfilling the projects' basic requirements.

During the Find the Fundamentals program you will be exposed to the following:

Broaden Your Basics - 120 hours

The second tier of the Kristin Hanson Fine Jewelry School is a beginner-to-intermediate course perfect for serious students who are ready to bring their craft to the next level. Students enrolled in this program may choose from a one-month intensive or a more flexible schedule to be completed in a four-month duration. As a student in this program you will have the opportunity to complete eight projects that capture your own design aesthetic. We want you to leave the studio with eight pieces that you are proud to wear and are reflective of your own personal style.

The skills and techniques you'll be exposed to in Broaden Your Basics are:

Discover Your Direction - 240 hours

Students who enroll in the Discover Your Direction course need to be able to dedicate 20 hours a week to studio time. Although some students must keep their full-time outside commitments they are still required to complete their 20 hours every week in our gorgeous Brooklyn space. The curriculum can be completed during the evening hours or on weekends, but we strongly encourage creatives enrolled in this intensive to give it as much time and attention as possible. This program is designed to help you graduate from student to jeweler. Not only do we provide you with the fundamental jewelry fabrication skill-set you’ll perfect over time, but we teach you how to reign in your creative ideas and have them manifest as beautiful works of art. Jewelry is sculpture that is worn and appreciated daily. We are confident this course will light your creative fire and help refine your jewelry making talent.

Not only will the 12 projects you complete expose you to a wide variety of jewelry manufacturing techniques, but you will leave with a small jewelry portfolio.

During your approximate two months of studio work in Discover Your Direction, you'll partake in the following:

Develop Your Design - 480 hours

The Develop Your Design course is available for full-time students only. This rigorous, yet rewarding program is great for jewelers who want a more intensive and advanced education in a condensed course. Students will gain a full understanding of the jewelry studio, master their fundamental jewelry fabrication skills, and be exposed to a variety of workshops, seminars and field trips. After completion of this program we believe you will walk away as a confident and inspired designer ready to making the time commitment to becoming a master at your craft.

Every designer needs a small body of work that is representative of their design aesthetic and style. This program was built with that goal in mind. Upon completion of the core curriculum, Kristin works with students to help them create their own project and pieces. Your final project will be a culmination of a variety of techniques you have learned in the studio and you will be given free rein to dazzle her and the world with your talent. As a student with this level of dedication we look not only to expose you to the importance of bench work, but we will provide you with some of the basic production fundamentals as well.

In Develop Your Design, we will expose full-time students to a variety of practices including the following: