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Date: September 5th & 6th
Times: 11 - 4pm w/ 30 min break
Level: All
Membership Price: $235 (Members use discount code MEMBERS10 at checkout to receive 10% off)
Class price also includes the cost of metal you’d like to have your object cast in: brass, sterling silver, and 14k gold.
Price is based per gram market rate and will be weighed and determined at the end of the class, plus a $50 finishing fee to have your object cleaned and polished unless you’d like to do the finishing work yourself. This will also be explained in depth at the beginning of the class session.
Workshop Description:
This course introduces wax carving for small objects and jewelry, with a focus on hardware for furniture. Students will learn to design, carve, and refine wax forms, preparing them for casting. This course is great for beginners and advanced practitioners alike.
Through hands-on work, participants will develop skills in complex designs using many different specific wax tools and working with multiple types of wax.
Ideal for artists, furniture makers, and jewelers, this course helps expand and refine skills in this ancient craft!
About the Instructor:
Gia Jones is the founder and steward of Unearthen. She began making jewelry in New York in 2003, when her work as a stylist on music videos and editorial shoots led her to create the elevated, organic pieces she envisioned but couldn’t source. In 2007, she left the fashion world and its rapid trend cycles to create her first collection.
Today, her work is guided by the dialectical and meditative process that emerges when hands become conduits for intuition. Inspired by music, ancient forms, and the quiet beauty of organic materials, Gia believes that nature is responsible for everything that is beautiful and profound; her role is to listen deeply, create instinctually, and allow the meaning of each form to emerge.
Gia designs with longevity in mind. Whether creating a custom engagement ring or a set of sculptural pulls, her goal is the same: to bring forth objects of depth and substance — timeless pieces that belong to the past and present. The results are sophisticated offerings that feel as if they’ve always existed. Each piece is a study in reverence and timelessness — an object to live with now and for a thousand years to come.
Required Materials: N/A
Optional Materials: Inspiration items such as jewelry that you love, objects from nature, any gem stones you'd like to include!