CLASSICAL JEWELRY-MAKING INSTRUCTION

Personal instruction by Cecelia Bauer will provide the student with hands-on experience in basic and advanced classical jewelry-making techniques.  These techniques include gold and silver granulation, chain making, hand forming and fabrication, soldering, stone setting, and finishing.  Students are encouraged to use their individual creativity to design and fabricate their own jewelry inspired by and created using, these classical jewelry-making techniques.  Classes include students of all skill levels, from beginning to advanced, with individual instruction by Cecelia Bauer.

Cecelia Bauer is a master goldsmith and jewelry designer, specializing in 22K gold granulation.  She has an M.F.A. degree from Pratt Institute, and was trained in classical jewelry-making techniques by Robert M. Kulicke and Jean Reist Stark at Kulicke-Stark Academy.  Ms. Bauer subsequently taught at Kulicke-Stark Academy, The Jewelry Arts Institute, and Pratt Institute.  Her designs are sold in fine jewelry galleries.  Ms. Bauer is featured among prominent contemporary jewelry artists in Ettagale Blauer’s Contemporary American Jewelry Design (Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1991), in 500 Earrings: New Directions in Contemporary Jewelry (Lark, 2007) and in Showcase 500 Rings (Lark, 2012).  Ms. Bauer opened C.Bauer Studio in August of 1991, where she has been teaching classical jewelry-making for the past 28 years.

SUMMER INTENSIVE SESSIONS 2019

There will be six  Summer Intensive Sessions.  Six hours of instruction per day with a one hour lunch

break.  Tuition is $850 per week.  There is a $200 non-refundable deposit  required to hold your seat.

Dates are as follows: June 24-28, July 1-5, July 8-12, July 22-26, July 29-August 2, August 5-9.

Weekly classes are held on Monday mornings from 11am-2pm, Tuesday mornings from 10am-1pm, Thursday evenings from 6-9pm.  Each session will consist of ten classes.  Tuition is $850.00/ session.  Saturday classes meet alternate Saturdays from 11am-6pm with a one hour lunch break.  Five Saturdays tuition is $850.00/ session.  Classes are limited to five students.  Reservations and a $200.00 non-refundable deposit are necessary to hold a seat.  Private instruction is available for $100/ hr., two hour minimum.

JEWELERS BENCH RENTALS

Fully equipped studio

$600/month

For more information please call, or write, to Cecelia Bauer, 212-354-1656, 64 West 48th Street, Suite 505, New York, NY 10036, or e-mail to ceceliabauer@mac.com. 

Photographs by Ralph Gabriner and Ed Addeo