FULL JEWELERY PROGRAMME 2025/2026
Head of Department: Catarina Silva
Full three-year program. Options for further development: Individual Project, Advanced Course in Visual Arts, or other.
Through practice, students will gain a technical knowledge of jewellery-making in its various expressions, both traditional and contemporary. This experience is accompanied by an indispensable reflection on the history and evolution of this ancestral form of expression. The program is multi-disciplinary in nature and whenever possible learning is on-campus l, as opposed to on-line. Students are encouraged to develop a personal artistic language, as a result of the group’s and their own individual questioning of the symbolic dimensions of jewellery and the value attributed to the jewel in the contemporary art panorama.
Staff: Catarina Silva, Marta Costa Reis, Sónia Brum, Tamia Dellinger, Rui Silva e Hugo Bernardo
Guest teachers:, Pedro Sequeira, Ana Carolina Escobar
Assistant: Rui Silva and Tamia Dellinger
Fee 10 x 250€ + 200€ (Enrolment) + 4,50€ (Insurance) (for enrolments until 15th September)
Admission No requirements, although the school encourages students to apply for an interview. By order of enrolment. The possibility of entering the course after its commencement will be considered exceptionally and implies a selective interview with the head of department.
Disciplines
Notes Materials not included, More information in the Student Guide:https://arco.pt/site/en/student-guide/enrolment-and-fees
Attachments https://arco.pt/site/download/curso_pdf/HorarioJoalharia1_25_26.pdf
Fee 10 x 235€ + 200€ (Enrolment) + 4,50€ (Insurance) (for enrolments until 15th September)
Admission Jewellery 1 or equivalent training. Portfolio presentation. Interview.
Disciplines
Notes Materials not included, More information in the Student Guide:https://arco.pt/site/en/student-guide/enrolment-and-fees
Attachments Schedule
Fee 10 x 235€ + 200€ (Enrolment) + 4,50€ (Insurance) (for enrolments until 15th September)
Admission Jewellery 1 or equivalent training. Portfolio presentation. Interview.
Disciplines
Notes
Materials not included, More information in the Student Guide:https://arco.pt/site/en/student-guide/enrolment-and-fees
Attachments https://arco.pt/site/download/curso_pdf/HorarioJoalharia3_25_26.pdf
Price 280€ + 28€ (Enrolment) + 2,50€ (insurance)
Schedule Mondays form 15h to 17h
Type occasional
Program
On-campus classes.
Jewellery has existed since the dawn of humanity and yet, compared to other artistic fields, it is little studied. We all know what jewellery is, or at least we all have an image of it which, in reality, may not correspond to the more contemporary works of today's jewellery artists.
But what are we talking about when we talk about jewellery? What is contemporary jewellery?
We will travel in the world of contemporary jewellery organizing our journey in a thematic fashion. We will get to know some of the major artists in today’s jewellery, always trying to illustrate our quest with a great variety of works and establishing bridges with other artistic areas.
Teachers
Price 10 x 170€+ 170€ (Enrolm) + 4,50€ (Ins) (for enrolments until 15th September)
Admission No requirements. Informative interview.
Schedule Monday and Wednesdays from 19h to 22h
Type semestrial
Program
On-campus classes
Approaching jewellery making through theory and practice. Emphasis on the training in basic jewellery techniques, such as sawing, grinding, and welding in the context of creative exercises. Exploring contents, forms, and materials.
Teachers
Notes
The Jewellery Evening Course aims at encouraging students to learn the basic jewellery techniques through research, experimentation and handling of new materials. A critical perspective should be present when responding to the creative exercises presented all throughout the school year.
Attachments https://arco.pt/site/download/curso_pdf/HorarioJoalhariaNOC1_2_25_26.pdf
Price 10 x 170€+ 170€ (Enrolm) + 4,50€ (Ins) (for enrolments until 15th September)
Admission Jewellery night course 1 or interview and portfolio.
Schedule Monday and Wednesdays from 19h to 22h
Type annual
Program
On-campus
Development of the skills acquired in the previous year. Emphasis on the technical training necessary for the completion of creative exercises, including thematic research and exploration of less conventional materials.
Teachers
Notes The Jewellery Evening Course aims at encouraging students to learn the basic jewellery techniques through research, experimentation and handling of new materials. A critical perspective should be present when responding to the creative exercises presented all throughout the school year.
