Susan Lenart | Sacred Geometry in Wire: creating architectural jewelry structures | Sunday, February 1, 2026 | 9:00 am until 4:30 pm
$220.00
Dive into a unique and powerful exploration of architectural forms and sacred wire structures in this hands-on, 6-hour jewelry workshop. You’ll spend the day building dimensional forms out of wire and sheet ̶ vessels that can hold gemstones, affirmations, talismans, and deeply personal elements.
Inspired by the geometry of nature, sacred architecture, and raw construction, you’ll learn to create jewelry that feels like a framework for intention: structural, open, and alive with meaning.
Through intuitive and precise metalworking techniques ̶ including twisting, soldering, forging, layering, and prong construction ̶ you’ll explore how to make work that embodies both form and space, strength and elegance.
This is more than a technical class. It’s a creative meditation on containment ̶ how to build wearable objects that hold energy, memory, and story.
What You’ll Learn
• Soldering delicate and complex wire joins
• Constructing prong settings and architectural forms
• Layering wire and sheet into hollow or open structures
• Creating balance between tension, strength, and lightness • Using negative and positive space for visual impact
What You’ll Create
Students will complete a pair of earrings or a dimensional pendant ̶ or components that can be incorporated into a personal body of work. Every piece is designed to feel like an object and an experience, elegant yet raw, meaningful and wearable.
This workshop is ideal for metalsmiths, makers, and artists who are ready to expand their skills with nontraditional structural wirework, and want to create work that feels architectural, expressive, and sacred.
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Description
Instructor: Susan Lenart
Title of Class: Sacred Geometry in Wire: creating architectural jewelry structures
Date of Class: Sunday, February 1, 2026
Time: 9:00 am until 4:30 pm
Level: All levels welcome
Type: Project and Techniques
Kit Fee: $55
Kit Includes
Use of available tools and supplies Susan will bring with her
Instructor will have the following for use in class
Soldering stations – torches, fuel, platforms, quench bowls, towels
Table protection
Pickle pot
Patina pot
Baking Soda for neutralizer
Dawn, paper towels, dishpans for water
Flex shafts
STUDENT SUPPLY LIST
materials
1 oz of 18g & 24g dead soft sterling silver wire
12″ fine silver bezel wire
3×3″ 24g sterling silver sheet
Favorite solder – hard, medium, easy (pallions/wire)
Any scrap metal, favorite gauges, sheet or bezel wire you love working with
Optional: any small objects you’d like to build around or incorporate
Tools/supplies
Solder Pick
Favorite flux
Jewelers Saw & Blades (3/0 or 2/0)
Saw blade lubrication
Bench Pin & C-Clamp (at least 3-inch to hold to hotel work tables)
Ball Peen, Chasing or Planishing Hammer
Rawhide Mallet
Steel Bench Block & Rubber Block to deaden noise
Files Cut #2 – flat, half-round
Needle Files, Set
Flush Cutters
Pliers, Chain Nose, Round Nose, Flat Nose, Flat/Half Round
Handheld shears for cutting sheet metal (non-ferrous)
Utility Tweezers, Fine-Tip (ex. Rio#115053)
Soldering Tweezers, Fine Tip
Your favorite finishing supplies to be used with the flex shafts (make sure to bring any mandrels too)
Small Ruler
Sketchbook and/or pad of paper
Pencil & fine-point black permanent marker
battery-operated or rechargeable task light for workstation
Magnification – Optivisor for example
Dust/particulate mask
safety glasses
OPTIONAL SUPPLIES
Cabochons, faceted stones (bring ready-made tube for setting),
Stamps, shot plate pieces, cast silver pieces, etc.
Sterling silver patterned wire/trim
Bezel wire
Additional sheet and/or wire
Scrap silver
Favorite texturing hammers
Scratch brush
Prong Pusher
Personal Maker’s Mark
Instructor Email Address:
Instructor Website:
PRE-ORDER YOUR CLASS SUPPLIES TODAY!
Many of our students have asked us to help streamline the process of gathering their supplies and tools for classes, and we have come up with a way we think will work for you.
SJ Jewelry Supply in Phoenix is owned and operated by a wonderful family, headed by Mario Morales. His wife, Erika, and son, Steven, round out the staff, and they are excited to help make gathering your supplies easy and stress free. We guarantee they will make life easier for you! No kidding!
Here’s how it will work….
- Once you have determined what you will need for each class, send an email with your request for products and/or tools to SJ Jewelry Supply
- Go to our website, open the class description for each of the classes in which you are enrolled, scroll down to the section “Student Supplies,” cut and paste the items you want to purchase into an email to Mario.
- Here’s their email address mailto:info@sjjewelrysupply.com
- When they receive your email, they will send you a return email acknowledging receipt of your request
- In this email, they will instruct you about payment methods
- Once your order is filled, they will send you a second email with confirmation stating your order is complete
- Included in this email, they will give you instructions on how to pick up your orders upon arrival in Tucson
Sound easy? We think it’s going to help take the stress out of preparing for classes!