Student Orientation & Curriculum Guide 
Curriculum
Electives:Wire Work

Working with wires of different thickness, hardness, shape, color, materials, strength in fashioning jewelry and other objects is a very desirable skill.   It takes experience with the feel of wire, how it is shaped, how it's strength can be structurally enhanced, and how it can be interlinked, interlocked and interconnected with other wire, with beads, with other materials.

There are two approaches.

The first is called Wire Work. In wire working, the artist creates shapes, using various sizes of wire. The artist can create jewelry findings, such as headpins and earwires. S/he can create chains of linked wire shapes.

The second is called Wire Wrap. In wire wrapping, the artist uses wire to create structural components, then assembles these into a supporting system. This is similar, though on a micro-scale, to building and engineering a bridge. The artist might create a setting for a stone, or a piece of jewelry which depends on controlling the tensile strength of the wire in some way.

Course Electives:
WIRE9001:Orientation to Wire and Wire Shaping - Jewelry Findings
(this class is a prerequisite for all the other wire classes. take this one first)
WIRE9002:Wire Structure - Cuff Bracelet
WIRE9003:Wire Rings
WIRE9004:Wire Chain Making and Bead Chain Victorian Choker
WIRE9006:Wire Wrapping Introduction - Crystal and CabochonWraps
WIRE9008:Evaluation and Critique of Wire Artists Work

WIRE WORK ELECTIVES
WIRE9101: Introduction to Chain Making
WIRE9111:  Snake Chains
WIRE9112:  Queens Link Chains
WIRE9113:  Wire Charm Bracelet With Drops
WIRE9114:  Egyptian Spiral Bracelet
WIRE9115: Make A Rosary

WIRE9201: Design Your Own Clasps
WIRE9202: Design Your Own Earrings
WIRE9203: Chainmaille Bracelet
WIRE9204: Bead/Wire Chunky Necklace and Clasp

WIRE9401: HAND COILED BANGLE BRACELET
WIRE9402: HAND COILED RING

WIRE WRAP ELECTIVES
WIRE9601: WIRE WRAP BANGLE
WIRE9602: WIRE WRAP RING
WIRE9603: WIRE WRAP RING WITH ENCAGED CABOCHON STONE