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“Catch a Fish” is a beginner-friendly, hands-on metalsmithing class where you'll design and build your own copper fish pendant or pin from a flat sheet of metal — no prior jewelry-making experience needed. Copper keeps the class affordable and approachable, and makes for a piece that's easy to give as a gift or wear yourself.
The class runs 2 hours of instruction and hands-on making, plus an additional 30 minutes to finish up projects and clean the lab — 2.5 hours total. This is a no-solder, no-torch project, so it's safe and welcoming for a wide range of ages and comfort levels.
Sawing — piercing your fish shape out of a copper sheet with a jeweler's saw
Filing — smoothing and refining edges for a clean, finished silhouette
Stamping — adding scale, texture, and personality with metal stamps
Dapping & Doming — shaping the flat piece into a dimensional, sculpted form
Drilling — adding a hole to hang your piece from a jump ring and chain
Chinanshu Arun Sharma (she/her) is a jewelry artist, maker, and designer-entrepreneur whose work spans over a decade of material exploration and creative reinvention. Since 2011, she has designed and handcrafted jewelry across an unusually wide range of media — from metal, stone, and recycled denim to found objects, yarns, natural fibers like grasses and banana fiber, and repurposed car and cycle parts. This range reflects her core creative philosophy: that beauty and meaning can be drawn from any material when approached with intention. Chinanshu trained at the Indian Institute of Gems and Jewelry in Jaipur and interned at Amrapali, one of India's most celebrated jewelry houses. She went on to study directly under master craftsmen practicing traditional techniques such as Kundan and Meenakari — an experience that shaped not just her technical skill, but her relationship to the craft itself.
“Catch a Fish” is a beginner-friendly, hands-on metalsmithing class where you'll design and build your own copper fish pendant or pin from a flat sheet of metal — no prior jewelry-making experience needed. Copper keeps the class affordable and approachable, and makes for a piece that's easy to give as a gift or wear yourself.
The class runs 2 hours of instruction and hands-on making, plus an additional 30 minutes to finish up projects and clean the lab — 2.5 hours total. This is a no-solder, no-torch project, so it's safe and welcoming for a wide range of ages and comfort levels.
Sawing — piercing your fish shape out of a copper sheet with a jeweler's saw
Filing — smoothing and refining edges for a clean, finished silhouette
Stamping — adding scale, texture, and personality with metal stamps
Dapping & Doming — shaping the flat piece into a dimensional, sculpted form
Drilling — adding a hole to hang your piece from a jump ring and chain
Chinanshu Arun Sharma (she/her) is a jewelry artist, maker, and designer-entrepreneur whose work spans over a decade of material exploration and creative reinvention. Since 2011, she has designed and handcrafted jewelry across an unusually wide range of media — from metal, stone, and recycled denim to found objects, yarns, natural fibers like grasses and banana fiber, and repurposed car and cycle parts. This range reflects her core creative philosophy: that beauty and meaning can be drawn from any material when approached with intention. Chinanshu trained at the Indian Institute of Gems and Jewelry in Jaipur and interned at Amrapali, one of India's most celebrated jewelry houses. She went on to study directly under master craftsmen practicing traditional techniques such as Kundan and Meenakari — an experience that shaped not just her technical skill, but her relationship to the craft itself.