Virginia graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design earning a BFA in Jewelry and Metalsmithing and for 20 years worked as one of the senior Goldsmiths at the impeccable Reinstein/Ross in NYC. She’s recently transitioned to working with Eli Halili. The focus of her career has been creating elegant, one-of-a-kind jewelry for the discerning and prominent clients of luxury, custom jewelry businesses and along the way she’s picked up some tricks of the trade. Her approach to teaching jewelry is systematic with an emphasis on tools, technique, and individual expression.

Susan Barth has professional training in jewelry making and design that spans back over the last thirty years. In the start of her career she apprenticed for five years at a jewelry firm in New York City that often produced pieces for Tiffany's, after which she went to work for Barry Kieselstein-Cord, a well known New York jewelry designer and stayed for six years working on the creation of new collections. It was at the end of this time, that she switched to freelancing, making original models for designers, which allowed her the time and flexibility to begin the development of her own work. A few years later Susan launched the Susan Barth Design collection which brought her an award at the Baltimore Craft Show.

Anyone interested to view examples of her work can find them at:
www.susanbarthdesign.com or on facebook at: www.facebook.com/SusanBarthDesign.

Susan Barth is currently teaching the following classes:

Wax Carving (Intermediate/Advanced)

Works by Susan Barth

Klaus Bürgel received his training at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Munich and at the Goldschmiedeschule Pforzheim. He has had one person exhibitions at Oliver Art Center, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA; Bernard Toale Gallery Boston, MA; Goethe Institut, Boston, MA; and Jewelerswerk Gallery, Washington D.C. His most recent group shows include: Micromegas, American Craft Museum, NY; Historical Connnections, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA; The Perfect Collection, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA. Beyond the Mines: The Art of Gold, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA. His prior teaching includes the Maine College of Art, Portland; Rhode Island School of Design, Providence; UMass, Dartmouth; California College of Arts, Oakland; School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and Parsons, NY. He lives and works in New York City. You can visit his website here.

Klaus Burgel is currently teaching the following classes:

Jewelry Topics and Independent Projects

Works by Klaus Burgel

David Butler's work has been included in several exhibits, including The Art of Gold, a traveling exhibit showing at many venues, including The Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California and The Mint Museum in Charlotte, North Carolina. New Steel, National Ornamental Museum, Memphis, TN Memories of New York, Aaron Faber Gallery NYC and a recent show of his work in White Plains at Westchester Center for the Arts. David teaches undergraduate jewelry design at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and 92nd Street Y. He has taught different workshops at other institutions, including Penland School in 2008 and Arrowmont in 2009. Besides teaching and making jewelry and sculpture, Butler has also worked with other designers, collaborating to bring ideas to fruition, including Donna Karan, 2006, 2007 and Leila Tai, 2009, 2010. He is also involved with museum exhibition design and installation, including the well received, reviewed and recently closed Lost World of Old Europe, an exhibit of ceramic and metal objects from the Danube Valley from 7,000 years ago held at the NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World: www.nyu.edu/isaw. David has worked with the Folk Art Museum on several occasions, including work on the Approaching Abstraction exhibit. Other museums he has worked with include the Guggenheim, The New York Historical Society and The Bard Center for Graduate Studies.

David Butler is currently teaching the following classes:

Jewelry II (Intermediate)

Jewelry III (Advanced)

Silversmithing and Judaica (Intermediate/Advanced)

Works by David Butler

Odette Channell is an educator, designer, and freelance jeweler whose work features fabricated stone settings combined with textural cast elements, blurring the line between fine and art jewelry. After graduating from Pratt Institute with a BFA in Jewelry Design and Metalsmithing, she worked as a studio technician at the Fashion Institute of Technology. She later spent 4 years honing her technique as a bench jeweler for Alex Šepkus. Her jewelry and wearable sculpture have been featured in various publications. In 2018, she joined the NYC Jewelry Week team, and in 2019 acted as a liaison for the NYCJW One For the Future program. Odette has been assisting and teaching classes since 2014, and currently teaches at Fitzgerald Jewelry, Brooklyn Metal Works, and the 92Y Jewelry Program.

Odette Channell is currently teaching the following classes:

Classical Goldsmithing in High-Karat Gold or Fine Silver I

Classical Goldsmithing in High-Karat Gold or Fine Silver II (Intermediate)

Brice Garrett uses the position of adornment as a source to think through ideas of preciousness, value, labor and memory. Working across disciplines, he utilizes a variety of materials and methods that culminate into wearables, sculptures, installations and participatory projects. Brice received his MFA from Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm, Sweden and a BA from San Diego State University. He has been the recipient of awards and residencies from the Museum of Arts and Design, Queens Council on the Arts, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, The Center for Craft, Manhattan Graphic Center and most recently Tides Institute & Museum of Art. His work has been exhibited across Europe and the United States and can be seen in publications such as Metalsmith magazine, Art Jewelry Today and The Body Adorned.

Brice Garrett is currently teaching the following classes:

Wax Carving (All Levels)

Valerie Hall has worked with metals and precious stones for many years, but over the last 10 years she has worked with polymer clay and finds it to be another fascinating medium in making jewelry. The traits that makes this medium so unique is that it’s very light weight, durable, waterproof, fade resistant and comes in a variety of colors. Your friends will compliment its uniqueness and will adore the fashionable and distinctive look of my wearable art made for today's woman. Valerie has been the President of the New York Polymer Clay Guild for over 6 years and really enjoys teaching various techniques using polymer clay. She is retired and resides in Queens, New York.

Valerie Hall is currently teaching the following classes:

Polymer Clay Jewelry

Bio coming soon.

Amy Haskins is currently teaching the following classes:

Metalwork and Jewelry / Ages 13-17

Jewelry Independent Study (Intermediate/Advanced)

Jewelry through Historical Metalworking

Works by Amy Haskins

Mia Hebib is the creative force behind Oblik Atelier. Her mission is to elevate jewelry from simply being an accessory to becoming a wearable sculpture, an objet d'art.

Born in Bosnia and raised in Croatia, Mia started her jewelry education at the School for Applied Arts and Design in Zagreb. In 1996, she moved to the United States and in 2001 she received a Bachelor of Fine Art degree in Metals and Jewelry from the Savannah College of Art and Design. Mia’s professional career started in NYC in 2001 with corporate design roles at Liz Claiborne, Henri Bendel and BCBGeneration. She is currently consulting with the legendary iconic American jewelry artist Robert Lee Morris.

In 2007 Mia founded Oblik Atelier; a jewelry studio that brought Mia back to metal-smithing, allowed her to create in a more intimate environment and to revisit her fine art roots and connect them to her invaluable experience in the corporate design world. Oblik Atelier jewelry is forging an alliance between art and fashion.

The jewelry designs are miniature hand produced wearable sculptures. They are bold, yet elegant, defined through sinuous lines, architectural forms and explorations in shapes, rhythm and play of positive and negative space.

Mia straddles the fine art and fashion world by participating at SOFA Expo, Art Hamptons, Art Palm Beach, Sieraad and by being represented in the galleries and museums in the world. She also attends Premiere Classe, fashion oriented trade shows in Europe and is represented by the high-end boutiques throughout the world.

In 2018, she was selected for the highly competitive DENYC program where she was a semi-finalist.

She was the MAD resident in the summer of 2011.

Mia is also a graduate and senior students’ mentor at her alma mater, the Savannah College of Art and Design.

In 2010, Mia created one of the first pop-up installations called Salon-Inventive Art Jewelry Exhibit in an Inventible Space. This was a temporary jewelry exhibit in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, the mission was to showcase an excerpt of the prolific studio jewelry scene with the New York City audience.

Mia’s work has been published in the New York Post, Elle, Vogue, InStyle UK, New York Times Magazine, Lark Books publications, I-D Magazine to name a few.

Honey Jeanne Laber, MFA, University of Georgia; studied: Penland School, Parsons, Japan, China; exhibitions include American Craft Museum, Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Museum, Neuberger Museum, the Mint Museum of Art.

Honey Jeanne Laber is currently teaching the following classes:

Jewelry II (Intermediate)

Enameled Jewelry

Betsy Lewis is an artist currently living and working in New York. Her work includes techniques such as hollow forming, forging, and fabrication of non-ferrous metals. Primarily working in silver she creates uncanny, abject replacements for historical medical instrumentation and modern weaponry. Professional experience extends to working, assisting, and teaching at the Maine College of Art, Brooklyn Metalworks, and Ornamentum Gallery. Betsy has been awarded several education scholarships from the Peter’s Valley School of Crafts, Penland School of Crafts, and Haystack School of Crafts. She has also had the chance to begin showing her work nationally while working towards her Masters in Fine Art at SUNY New Paltz.

Betsy Lewis is currently teaching the following classes:

Silversmithing (Intermediate)

Intro to Silversmithing

Ann Paly is a professional jeweler with over 20 years experience. She works and resides in NYC and has a diverse and loyal following. She received a BFA from SUNY at Buffalo in Fine Arts and Elementary Education and honed her metalsmithing techniques at the 92nd Street Y, Studio Jewelers, Visual Arts, Parsons School of Design and Pratt. Ann began her career as an art director at several major advertising agencies before discovering her passion for jewelry making and design.

Works by Ann Paly

Shella Robinson currently teaches Jewelry I, Jewelry II, and Independent Study at the 92Y School of the Arts. She is also the owner and the Art Consulting and Operations Director for Art Consultants Group. After graduating with a BFA in Metalsmithing and Jewelry from the University of Oregon, Robinson earned an MFA in Metals and Jewelry at the State University of NY, New Paltz, where she also taught as an adjunct professor. Various one of a kind jewelry pieces of Robinson’s have been exhibited both nationally and internationally at venues such as John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Galerie Marzee, Velvet da Vinci Gallery, and Heidi Lowe Gallery.

Works by Shella Robinson

Mary Beth Rozkewicz received her BFA at SUNY, New Paltz. She is a studio jeweler living and working in Brooklyn, NY. Mary Beth teaches jewelry making at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and at the Westchester Arts Workshop in White Plains, NY. Her work is widely exhibited in museum stores and galleries internationally. You can visit her website at www.mbroz.com.

Mary Beth Rozkewicz is currently teaching the following classes:

Techniques for Creative Jewelry

Works by Mary Beth Rozkewicz

Olivia Marie Suffern creates one-of-a-kind and limited production pieces of jewelry and objets d’art out of her studio in Gowanus, Brooklyn. Her eponymous line, Olivia Marie Handcrafted Adornment, radiates whimsy and enchantment like the eclectic individuals for whom it is designed. She received her B.F.A. in Jewelry Design and Metalsmithing from Pratt Institute in 2014, along with an Outstanding Merit Award from the Department of Fine Arts. Olivia has shown work at boutiques and galleries around the country, and was featured by Hedone Gallery at Wheaton Arts Glass Weekend ‘15. She was the Visual Artist-in-Residence for Urban Playground Chamber Orchestra’s 2016-2017 season, and a staff member of the inaugural NYC Jewelry Week in 2018.

Victoria Tillotson is a New York based jewelry designer, author and instructor. She is a long time faculty member at School of Visual Arts, as well as Center for the Arts in White Plains. Her work has appeared in numerous fashion publications and jewelry making books, and she is the author of Chic Metal: Modern Metal Jewelry to Make at Home (Potter Craft: 2009). Having worked in almost every part of the jewelry industry — from selling to boutiques to designing a line for Home Shopping Network to mentoring emerging designers — Victoria now focuses exclusively on creating unique, alternative custom jewelry for private clients and her new-found interest in lapidary arts.

Elizabeth Tokoly is a graduate from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan. She is the founder of EatMetal Art Jewelry Gallery and Metals Studio. Her work exhibits nationally and can be found at events such as Craft NY, Peter's Valley Craft Fair, Sugarloaf, and Artrider’s. Elizabeth has been an intructor for over 18 years at the 92nd St Y. She conducts classes at Peter’s Valley School of Craft, Snowfarm School of Craft, Visual Arts Center of Summit, and The Art School of Old Church. Elizabeth is published in numerous jewelry books and magazines such as Metalsmith, British Vogue, and her Japanese Hexagonal Collar graces the cover of Chain Mail Jewelry Contemporary designs from Classic Techniques.

Elizabeth’s artistic approach is through math and nature. She love to break down the raw beauty of nature into simple elements. Elizabeth uses techniques such as forging, forming, replicating, growing, and simplifying to create intricate designs. Her pieces use simple lines, primary shapes, and structures in which the growth of these forms create original and unique pieces of wearable art. Her work is edgy, classic, and timeless.

Elizabeth’s gallery is open daily to view her limited edition collections, she works with clients on heirloom custom remodels and bespoke pieces. Her gallery is located in Hoboken, NJ.

Works by Beth Ann Tokoly

Katharine Wood received her BA from Boston University. She has taught at the Newark Museum, Craft Students League, Museum of Arts and Design, and Princeton University. Her work has been published in Metalsmith and Glass on Metal magazines. Ms. Wood was the featured artist in the publications The Art of Fine Enameling, and Enameling with Professionals. She is the co-creator of internationally used transfer etching technique for enamelists, metalsmiths, and jewelers and continues to exhibit nationally and internationally. Katharine's work is included in the permanent collections of the MFA (Boston), Racine Museum, Newark Museum, Cooper Hewitt and The Enamel Arts Foundation (CA).

Katharine Wood is currently teaching the following classes:

Multiple Approaches to Enameling (All Levels)

Works by Katharine Wood