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Rio Grande Jewelry Making Classes and Rio Rewards PMC Certification Classes


 

Ready to start making jewelry? Or maybe you're a wiz at the bench, but a new jewelry making technique would complement your skills and expand your designs? Then it's time to Learn with Rio!
Throughout the year, Rio Grande offers numerous jewelry making classes where you'll benefit from expert instruction and the kind of learning that comes from getting hands-on time at the bench. Whether you're interested in a single soldering class, offered several times per year, or you want to join fellow students for a week-long Workshop Series event where you can learn how to form metal in Bill Fretz's class, then walk next door to Kate Wolf's wax carving class, Rio Grande is your source for learning all things jewelry! And with the Rio Rewards PMC Certification program, you can earn your PMC certification and enjoy the benefits of our special purchasing program. At Rio, any time is a great time to learn!
Rio Grande Jewelry Making Workshops
Experience Rio firsthand at a Rio Grande Jewelry Making Workshop Series! Learn jewelry making from the industry’s top instructors, including Bill Fretz, Kate Wolf, Tim Sheriff and Tim McCreight (just to name a few!). It’s a week full of educational opportunities, where you can sign up for several classes (wax carving, fold forming, casting, stone setting and more!) and indulge your craving for learning! While you’re here, tour our 180,000 square foot solar-powered facility, and discover the latest and greatest jewelry making tools in our demo area. Try out products from CraftOptics™, JoolTool and Swanstrom, and techniques using epoxy resin, rolling mills and e-coating!
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Rio Grande Jewelry Making Classess
Class is IN! Take a Rio Grande jewelry making class and share in the spirit of learning! Experiment, ask “What if?”, and join fellow students in classrooms filled with curiosity, drive and artistry. Our jewelry making classes are held througout the year, right here in our Albuquerque, New Mexico facility, covering everything from PMC to metal forming, soldering to stone setting. Every student works at a jeweler’s bench, rolls up their sleeves and gets hands-on experience using the materials, tools, and equipment provided for the class. Our instructors are professional jewelers, metalsmiths, gemologists, stone setters and designers. Their dedication to this rewarding and invigorating art form is manifest in every class they teach, and their understanding of individual learning styles helps them better guide students to reach their goals. Rio Grande’s jewelry making classes are kept small, so students benefit from more valuable, one-on-one instruction.
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PMC Certification
Get certified doing what you love—register for a Rio Rewards PMC® Certification class! PMC artists who are seeking the recognition that a standardized level of expertise offers will thrive in this intensive three-day workshop.
Established in 1998 by PMC guru Tim McCreight, the program includes a demanding and invigorating curriculum intended for artists who have already been working with metal clay. World-class Senior PMC Instructors include Tim McCreight, Patrik Kusek, Barbara Becker Simon, J. Fred Woell, Celie Fago, Tonya Davidson, Terry Kovalcik and Chris Darway. All instructors teach specific skills and techniques and evaluate each piece you make to assess the level of accomplishment before awarding certification. Classes are kept small, so you’ll enjoy plenty of one-on-one instruction as you work to complete seven projects, each designed to include a range of techniques that help you continue to work or teach using PMC. And once you complete the program and receive your certification, you will be enrolled in the Rio Rewards special purchase program!
Your certification awaits!

 



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