Jewelry

 
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 Our jewelry classes offer students experiences in constructing designs by means of fabrication, including techniques in silver soldering, die forming, etching, tool making, and hinge mechanisms.  In stone setting, students learn sawing, filing, soldering, and some fabrication.  Emphasis is on cabochon and tube stone setting.  Classes in Enameling includes skills learned in other jewelry classes with more attention to two dimensional design.  Emphasis is on enameling on sheet metal and some cloisonne. Many of our students exhibit their work in the Santa Ana Colleges' Annual Student Art Show, galleries located in the Santa Ana Artists Village, and OC Fair.​   
 

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Facult​​​y

Jennifer Monroe
Program Head, Crafts Jewelry 

Jennifer Monroe received her Masters in Metals at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale,  Undergraduate B. A. in Studio Art at CSU Long Beach, and has established her Metal studio Southern California. She has been a Graduate Jeweler Instructor at the GIA (Gemological Institute of America) and currently instructs metals at The Fashion Institute of Merchandising in Los Angeles,  Santa Ana College Art History and Jewelry, and Jewelry at Saddleback College. Monroe holds semi annual workshops at her studio in Carlsbad, while exhibiting her work nationally and she just returned from the UK studying Victorian Whitby Jet Gemology.​


Required Courses​​

 

First Semester

​Course No.​​
​Course Name
​Units
​ART 182
​Intro to Jewelry
​3
​ART 130
​Intro to Drawing
​3

Second Semester​​

​​Course No.​
​Course Name
​​Units
​Art 282
​Jewelry
​3

Third Semester​

​​Course No.
​Course Name
​Units
​Art 283
​Advanced Jewelry
​3

Fourth Semester​

​​Course No.
​Course Name
​​Units
​ART 284
​Stone Setting
​2
​ART 285
​Enameling
​​2


 


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