This ain't your summer-camp, friendship-bracelet-making jewelry course. Silversmithing at 3rd Ward is an intro to the skills that may help turn you into the next Pamela Love, Dannijo, or Alexis Bittar. From the basic skills, such as cutting metal, using the hand saw, drilling holes, hammering, soldering, as well as an understanding of how metals are manipulated, this course at 3rd Ward — a Brooklyn mecca of cool classes way beyond just silversmithing— walks their students through the process of creating a bona-fide, wearable piece of jewelry.

Adam's teacher, Max Goodman says this four-week class is practically a compressed version of the skills she had learned at the Tyler School of Art, and it leads its way into the natural next step: "We offer a Silversmithing II course, which covers more-advanced techniques like building mechanisms, making interchangeable pieces, and also touches upon business practices for folks who'd like to begin to sell their work."