Intro to Silversmithing – Drop Earring/Stud/Clip On Earring Making Workshop

2026 Heritage Artisan Faire Workshops – Rediscovering the Past Through Craft.

Intro to Silversmithing – Drop Earring/Stud/Clip On Earring Workshop

Step back in time—then make it your own in this hands-on silversmithing workshop. Learn to design and create textured earrings using recycled metals, exploring basic metalsmithing techniques such as mark-making, hand sawing, and stamping with letters and numbers.

You’ll also discover essential silversmithing skills, including soldering on stud posts and clip-on fittings, and ball making. Over 3 hours, you’ll craft 1–2 pairs of earrings, choosing from drop earrings, studs, or clip-ons, while adding your own creative touches and building practical skills in this timeless craft.

5.00pm – 8.00pm

Step back in time — then make it your own.

As part of AdventureFest 2026, Redlands Coast Museum invites you to embark on The Heritage Artisan Faire Workshops: a hands-on journey through heritage skills, artistry, and self-discovery. Vintage trades meet modern creativity in a series of immersive workshops that celebrate craftsmanship as a living link between past and present.

Under the guidance of Silversmith Jemica Ostrofski, learn how to design and fabricate textured earrings using recycled metals. The basic metalsmithing techniques of mark-making and hand sawing will be explored using various hammers, letter stamps, number stamps and other tools. You will also learn some basic silversmithing techniques, from soldering on stud posts and clip on earrings, and ball making. You will have the opportunity to add your own creative touches to your design along the way, while learning key techniques and skills.

The workshop will run for 3 hours, during which you will be making 1 – 2 pairs of earrings, choosing from drop earrings, studs and clip on earrings.

 

What’s included

• Sheet of recycled Aluminium/Copper/Brass/Sterling Silver

• Findings to turn your creation into jewellery/sculpture

• Apron to wear during the workshop

• Gift box and bag to store and take home your creations in

 

This includes all recycled metals, solder, sandpaper, polishing compounds, and mops to make earings, use of all the tools that will be needed and an apron to use during the workshop.

 

What to bring / wear

• All necessary tools and materials will be provided on the day.

• Pen and paper to take notes

• Enclosed shoes

• No loose items of clothing (as they may get caught in equipment)

• Hair tied back

• Reading / Focal Glasses (lots of close-up detail work)

 

Tutor Profile

Meekz Contemporary Jewellery is the independent label of Brisbane based silversmith Jemica Ostrofski. In 2009, Jemica graduated from the Queensland College of Art with a Bachelor of Fine Art with First Class Honours, after majoring in Gold and Silversmithing and gaining a passion for minimalist sculptural form. She relocated to the country to be with family in 2010, where she was able to finally call home and transform an old horse stable into her studio and pursue her jewellery fulltime.

Working from her now Lutwyche based home, Jemica loves being able to draw inspiration from the country, from the urban built environment, society and design, geometric forms and costume and fashion jewellery. The tactile nature of working with raw materials alongside existing forms always creates a dialogue for her and continually keeps her searching for ways to express new stories.

Using traditional silversmithing techniques such as hand sawing, soldering, hammer texturing, etching and oxidising, Jemica brings to life her sketched drawings to create statement pieces that can be worn every day. Adopting an ethically responsible and environmentally friendly practice, all Meekz collections are made using recycled, reclaimed and repurposed materials such as road signs, sterling silver, electrical wire, aluminium, copper and brass, transforming the everyday into something unique and beautiful. In 2014, Jemica pursued her passion to teach and ran her first small group workshop with much success. She now runs workshops in metal texturing (mark making with metal), recycled wire weaving (our signature jewellery style of wire manipulation and weaving), riveting and hand sawing (traditional riveting and hand sawing skills), copper ring making (metal texturing and ring making techniques) and traditional ring making for two (traditional soldering techniques used in ring making). More workshops are available, and all are fully customisable. Jemica runs her workshops from several locations in Queensland – Grounded Village Studios in Jimboomba, Tinker and Cobb and Co Museum in Toowoomba and independently from home at her studio in Lutwyche.

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Duration:

3 hours

Suitable for: Ages 16+ (no prior experience required)

 

What to wear

• Comfortable clothing (no loose items of clothing as they may get caught in equipment)
• Enclosed shoes.
• Hair tied back

Workshop Capacity:

All our Heritage Artisan Faire Workshops have a limited number of participants to ensure you receive all the assistance and direction you require.

 

Ticket Includes:

• Tea & Coffee station

 

Ticket Types:

• Non-Members

• Redlands Coast Museum Members & Volunteers ($10 discount)

 

Important Information:

• Discounts apply only to valid Redlands Coast Museum Members and Volunteers

• Member and volunteer discounts cannot be used by non-members

• Discounts are not transferable or shareable

 

*Booking fees apply.

 

Acknowledgment to Carys Martin Ceramic.