FULL JEWELERY PROGRAMME 2024/2025
Head of Department: Catarina Silva
Full three-year programme. Option of 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 favors on-premise learning, 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.
Teachers: Catarina Silva, Marília Maria Mira, Marta Costa Reis, Sónia Brum, Rui Silva e Hugo Bernardo
Guest teachers: Teresa Dantas e Constança Entrudo
Assistants: Rui Silva and Tamia Dellinger
Fee 10 x 225€ + 150€ (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_24_25.pdf
Fee 10 x 225€ + 150€ (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 225€ + 150€ (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_24_25.pdf
Price 260€ + 26€ (Enrolment)
Schedule Mondays form 15h to 17h
Type occasional
Program
On-premise 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. The traditional approach focuses on jewellery made of precious materials and apparatus pieces, and much of what we know about ancient cultures comes from information about jewellery found in tombs.
But what are we talking about when we talk about jewellery? What is contemporary jewellery?
This short course is not intended to provide answers, but rather to provide information to think about. Contemporary jewellery, even though it has made radical cuts with tradition, is situated in a historical continuity that we cannot ignore and that every jewellery artist should be aware of. We will go through the history of jewellery from its origin, stopping at the dawn of contemporaneity, which will be the subject of another course. From the first pierced shells found in archaeological sites, to the beginning of the 20th century, we will try to observe the continuity but also the differences in jewellery and in humanity's relationship with it, the functions it fulfills, its relationship with the body and, above all, show many pieces, creating an iconographic record that will inspire us and help us in our work.
Teachers
Price 10 x 155€+ 120€ (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-premise
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 and the handling of new materials. A critical perspective should be present when responding to the creative exercises presented throughout the school year.
Attachments https://arco.pt/site/download/curso_pdf/Horario_Joalharia_NOC_24_25.pdf
Jewellery Workshop - Basic Metal techniques: sawing, filing, welding
Date 18, 25 Jan and 1, 8 Feb 2025
Price 120€ + 0,75€ (Insurance) - materials not included
Schedule Saturdays from 10am to 1pm
Type occasional
Program Practical introduction to Contemporary Jewellery as a multi-disciplinary and artistic area of knowledge. Executing one or more pieces with basic metal techniques. Sawing, filing away, sanding, folding, piercing, texturing, and welding.
Teachers