The best selection of jewellery schools. Find complete and updated information: brief history, images, courses, workshops, information on events, publications, professors, contact. The section is organised by countries and names.

A.N.U. School of Art, Gold & Silversmithing Workshop
(Canberra, Australia)

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The University presents the new teachers list, new website & works of the 3rd year graduate 2012 students.

St Lucas University College of Art & Design Antwerp
(Antwerp, Belgium)

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Update of the workshops program of the school for 2013. In February Benjamin Lingnel will conduct a workshop about taking control of all that is transmissible in your work as jeweler: view this as different stages in a process of making the work disappear, and reconstruct it on the other side of the mirror.

China Academy of Art
(Zhuan tang Town, Hang zhou, China)

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The Jewelry major was established in 2004 and belongs to the department of Ceramic and Handcrafts of Public Art college of China Academy of Art. We offer students four years of bachelor program and three years of master.

Estonian Academy of Arts
(Tallinn, Estonia)

Estonian Academy of Arts (EAA) is the only institution in Estonia offering education at university level in the fields of art and design. EAA consists of the faculties of Fine Arts, Design, Media Arts, Architecture and Conservation as well as the Institute of Art History. Director of the Jeweller Depatment is Kadri Mälk.

Lahti Polytechnic Institute of Design
(Lahti, Finland)

Saimaa University of Applied Sciences
(Imatra, Finland)

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We were called before South Carelia Polytechnic and Jewellery was under Arts and Crafts department. Now the official name is Saimaa University of Applied Sciences. One even bigger change is that we have totally new space in Imatra,in an other town 30 kilometres more north from Lappeenranta. The new department is now under Fine Arts.

Design Werkstatt
(Freiburg, Germany)

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The workshops of the Design Werkstatt are journeys of discovery trough shapes and colours and create space for individual technical and artistic development. Find your pick in the jubilee programme 2013 as Design Werkstatt celebrates 25 years!

Fachhochschule Düsseldorf, Fachbereich Design
(Düsseldorf, Germany)

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Update of the page with new images of student work and information about comming events.

Fachhochschule Trier
(Idar-Oberstein, Germany)

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Information about projects, workshops and exhibitions 2010-2011

Hochschule Trier
(Idar-Oberstein, Germany)

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News about the Symposium SchmuckDenken IX - 2013 ThinkingJewellery.

Klasse für Schmuck und Gerät Prof. Otto Künzli
(Munich, Germany)

Pforzheim University / School of Design
(Pforzheim, Germany)

Update of the page with images of  student works. This summer semester visiting teacher is Peter Bauhuis.

Alchimia Contemporary Jewellery School
(Florence, Italy)

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It is time for the students of Alchimia to show what they have been up to at the graduation show of 2013

Le Arti Orafe
(Florence, Italy)

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Le Arti Orafe has updated the page with complete new information about the summer intensive courses & workshops for 2013.

Hiko Mizuno College of Jewelry
(Tokyo, Japan)

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The school has a new page with the coming event: the 2013 graduation works exhibition. Over 200 pieces of art and craft works will be exhibited in Aoyama Shibuya.

Gerrit Rietveld Academie
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)

(...) a place where students can experiment freely, an artistic laboratory where through differentiated assignments, students are stimulated to develop their own vision; iconographically but also philosophically and technically. The primary goal is to develop a personal vision on jewellery. (...)

Opere International Jewelry School
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)

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In Opere Ruudt Peters continues his activities as a teacher with private courses, aiming at students or graduates of art academies and artists and designers that are searching for a greater depth in their work. Update of the page. The deadline for the workshop Move Now is on the 15th of May.

Ar.Co Centro de Arte e Comunicação Visual
(Lisbon, Portugal)

The Jewellery Department aims to renew the concept of jewellery as a form of plastic and individual expression. Investigating the concept of the jewel, its status and its form in the contemporary world.

Contacto Directo
(Lisboa, Portugal)

The school was founded in 1988 to enable those who might be interested to acess a technical and consistent professional training, the capability of expressing themselves through jewels of their own emotional, critical or aesthetical concepts.

Escola Superior de Artes e Design
(Senhora da Hora
Matosinhos, Portugal)

The Ural State Academy of Architecture and Arts
(Ekaterinburg, Russian Federation)

Academy of Fine Arts and Design Bratislava
(Bratislava, Slovakia)

In an atmosphere of spiritual freedom, new teaching staff has been hired in a competitive contest, the selection criteria of which were based solely on artistic merits and potentials, as well as on requirements relevant for art-educators.

Durban University of Technology
(Durban, South Africa)

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DUT represents an unprecedented example of what can be achieved through determination and community spirit in the face of adversity.

Universiteit Stellenbosch University
(Stellenbosch, South Africa)

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The Jewellery Division of the Visual Arts Department was founded in 1968 and is the oldest jewellery school in South Africa. The Division focuses on the development and innovation of contemporary and conceptual jewellery, as well as engendering critical academic discourse. Within this framework, design is understood as sensitive to both new contemporary trends and the historic roots of jewellery manufacture. Age-old techniques are continuously re-interpreted in the light of new concepts, thereby feeding into the ever-evolving realm of contemporary jewellery so as to provoke, critique, record, and transmit, as well as to generate meanings, qualities, and ideas.

Escola d'Art Arsenal
(Vilafranca del Penedès, Spain)

Escola d'ART del Treball
(Barcelona, Spain)

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(...) l'objectiu principal és formar en els coneixements teòrics i pràctics, fomentant la capacitat creativa i conceptual de l'alumnat, així com dotar-los de les eines essencials per desenvolupar una tasca professional futura.(...)

Escola d'Arts i Oficis Llotja
(Barcelona, Spain)

Escola Massana
(Barcelona, Spain)

Konstfack
(Stockholm, Sweden)

Maden Contemporary Jewellery Studio
(Istanbul, Turkey)

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Maden is a contemporary jewellery studio that considers jewellery as “wearable art” and intends to convey this concept to participants with technical and conceptual courses. It also aims to improve the field of contemporary jewellery in Turkey.

Birmingham Institute of Art & Design
(Birmingham, United Kingdom)

Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design. University of Dundee
(Dundee, United Kingdom)

(...) The jewellery & metal design course aims to enable students to learn how to think for themselves and create work that is both intellectually, socially and culturally engaged. Students are encouraged to think about their concepts and ways of working in order to push the boundaries of the discipline. (...)

Edinburgh College of Art
(Edinburgh, United Kingdom)

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The Edinburgh College of Art June Degree Show 2013 shows fresh and imaginative silversmithing, fine precious metal jewellery, limited batch production designs for industry and avant-garde catwalk pieces.

Glasgow School of Art
(Glasgow, United Kingdom)

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The school presents The annual undergraduate Degree Show from 8 to 15 june.

Middlesex University
(London, United Kingdom)

Middlesex offers its BA Hons Jewellery, with acces to excellent digital and traditional workshop facilities. One of the most respected jewellery degree programmes in the UK and internationally.

Royal College of Art
(London, United Kingdom)

The CASS
(London, United Kingdom)

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Find out information about the different courses and teachers at The Cass - Jewellery and Silversmithing Department at London Metropolitan University.

University for the Creative Arts
(Farnham, Surrey, United Kingdom)

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(...) The University's key strength lies in the breadth of specialist, academic disciplines that it offers. Providing students with a ladder of opportunity, the University enables talented individuals to progress from further education through to undergraduate and postgraduate study and on to employment or creative practice. (...)

Rhode Island School of Design
(Providence, Rhode Island, United States)

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RISD has updated their page with new information of the current workshop for the Winter Session with Alexander Blank as instructor.

University of Oregon Department of Art
(Eugene, United States)

Western Michigan University - Frostic School of Art
(Kalamazoo, United States)

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(...) The  Metals/Jewelry program in the Frostic School of Art at Western Michigan  University provides the undergraduate art student an exploration of materials  and technical processes necessary to produce jewelry and other forms of  adornment, functional objects, or larger sculptural works in metal. (...)