Academy of Jewelry & Art

The goal at the “Academy of Jewelry & Art “ is to provide a solid and wide spanning foundation in Jewellery Arts and gem awareness, to build confidence in its students for them to to undertake design challenges and cross boundaries, secure in the knowledge that they have a firm grounding in every aspect of jewellery design.

Get into jewelry making with metal clays the easy way. Add on knowledge step by step and get professional. Courses and workshops available, including creating your own Wedding Ring!

The “Academy of Jewelry & Art “ prides itself on providing inspirational, state-of-the-art of facilities to facilitate student excellence.

The AJA facilities consist of two dedicated classrooms and a specialized retail area for students to practice their merchandising and sell their pieces. All are located in Tobago.

Small numbers of full- and part-time certificate and dilpoma students make use of our facilities with an exceptional student to teacher ratio of under 12-1. In addition to this conducive setting, our classrooms include many aditional tools and equipment and inspirational materials needed for the budding jewellery designer of fabrication expert to grow; equipment such as a multi-purpose high-temperature kiln, rolling mill, wire drawing station, torches, drills, rotary finishers, flex-shafts, and other tools of the trade. Computer aided design students avail of a state-of-the-art CAD lab. Design and fabrication students make use of some of the latest AV technology in demonstrations to enhance learning and comprehension.