NYC Jewelry Lab by Carolina Iwanow

NYC Jewelry Lab by Carolina Iwanow offers jewelry classes and workshops that enable the students to explore and develop their inherent creativity as well as technical aspects of the craft.

Metalsmithing is a very ancient craft that exist since the cave era, metal transformed human life. Beauty and body decoration are indeed a human obsession. Working with precious metals is one of the most versatile and amazing crafts you can ever experience. When you craft metal you deal with art, design, alchemy, mathematics, physics, nature, chemistry and patience. Crafting temples the spirit.

NYC Jewelry Lab is a green Jewelry studio. Carolina is very diligent about crafting jewelry in the safest way. She do not use hazardous chemicals.

At Carolina Iwanow’s classes, students will learn how to design, learn and earn ancient hand crafting skills and understanding modern tools and techniques. From introductory level courses to professional fine jewelry, contemporary jewelry & fashion jewelry, design & metal production. Carolina offers as well a big variety of skilled workshops. Her goal as an instructor is to teach the secrets and techniques of design & jewelry and how to make ideas come to life through one of the most amazing and versatile crafts in this earth: Metalsmithing.

Silabous of the class:

From the very first minute students will learn a design exercise and they will design their own first jewel from scratch ( it can be pendants, earrings, rings) students will learn the characteristics of precious metals and how they behave, they will also learn how to transfer it to metal, how to saw, file, sand, stamp, textured, forge, anneal, solder, clean, use the flex shaft and the polisher machine. For the second exercise student will learn how to carve one or two rings out of wax and then the student will have the amazing experience to outsource their very first wax carving at the wax casting supplier at the Diamond District. For the third exercise the student will learn how to make a fine silver bezel setting pendant, ring or earrings with the option of adding granulation, twisted wire ornaments or a reticulated band. At the end of this five classes the student will have from 3 to 6 pieces ready and this depends on each individual pace, some people is faster some people is slower but Carolina doesn't like the students to rush. Everyone is different and have their own timing and she deeply respects this fact mostly at the beginning of your metalsmithing experience. Carolina's classes are not about how many pieces you will make ( you will make many beautiful ones) they are about how much knowledge, understanding, techniques and practice she will teach you. 

Carolina’s classes are very personalized and super hands on.

Carolina Iwanow was born in Argentina and she is a jeweler for 28 years and she teaches jewelry for 20 years. She studied fashion & textile design at the University of Buenos Aires and contemporary jewelry with jeweler Jorge Castanon, European and Argentinian folklore chasing & repusee silver Pottery with master jeweler Jorge Pablo Pallarols. Also she developed much of her knowledge of jewelry and the jewelry industry through first-hand experience designing, producing and manufacturing fine jewelry and high end fashion jewelry for the biggest brands and fashion brands in Argentina and worldwide (such as Bebe, Guess, Marciano, Disney, Eva Mendez, NYC & Co, Ona Saez, Vulk, Rusty, Invicta etc.) She had her first jewelry art gallery in Buenos Aires. In 1998 she started to teach jewelry & design at the University of Architecture of Buenos Aires and at her own studio forming a lot of jeweler. She has her pieces exhibited at galleries worldwide including Saatchi & Saatchi, London.

Materials: the materials are included for the first class and after this Carolina will send a full list of suppliers and also a very versatile list of materials that it can be customized to buy the minimum amount of materials the suppliers sell accommodating this for a student on a budget.

Tools: Student don’t need to buy any tools for Carolina’s class. NYC Jewelry Lab it’s a fully equipped jewelry studio.