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Aug 31, 2024
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2024-2025 Yavapai College Catalog
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ART 140 - Jewelry I Description: Introduction to jewelry fabrication techniques for non-ferrous metals and associated materials. Application of design principles.
Credits: 3 Lecture: 1 Lab: 5
Course Content:
- Equipment use and safety
- Saw, pierce, and file
- Forging, bend, dome, sink, and draw out metal shapes
- Texture surfaces
- Cold connections and soldering
- Bezel settings
- Cleaning, buffing and finishing
- Critique
- Formal elements and principles of design
- Historical and contemporary art examples
Learning Outcomes:
- Utilize tools and equipment safely. (1)
- Manipulate metal by sawing, piercing, and filing. (2)
- Create metal forms using forging hammers and stakes. (3)
- Enhance surfaces with textures. (4)
- Assemble components using cold connections and soldering. (5)
- Use a bezel setting to add cabochons or other elements. (6)
- Use cleaning, buffing and finishing techniques. (7)
- Use media specific terminology to critique and evaluate works of art. (8)
- Identify the formal elements and principles of design. (9)
- Analyze the formal elements and principles of design. (9)
- Interpret the formal elements and principles of design. (9)
- Recognize historical or contemporary examples of the fine arts or crafts. (10)
Required Assessment:
- Critique and evaluation of art and artifacts.
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