GIA will associate with well-known educator, grasp goldsmith, and jewellery designer Alan Revere to replace its Graduate Jeweler program.

Revere is the designer behind an award-winning assortment of jewellery made within the Nineteen Eighties and Nineteen Nineties and previous president of the American Jewellery Design Council.

He’s most well known because the founder and head of the Alan Revere Academy of Jewellery Arts.

Revere ran his academy in San Francisco for 40 years earlier than retiring in 2017. Within the years since, he’s continued to retain a presence amongst college students and jewelry-making fans.

Now, he’ll proceed to form the way forward for jewellery training as he collaborates with GIA on a redesign of the Graduate Jeweler program. 

It’s a six-month intensive provided on the GIA’s Carlsbad, California campus. 

Underneath Revere’s affect, the brand new program can have a larger emphasis on bench abilities, together with hand fabrication; design and creativity; steel casting, together with wax carving; setting a larger number of gemstone shapes; setting pure gem stones and laboratory-grown diamonds; and customary repairs and refurbishments.

College students will be taught by way of a collection of design tasks to assist develop creativity and virtually apply jewelry-making abilities. 

The revamped program’s begin dates can be introduced in 2023.

“The GIA workforce is delighted to welcome Mr. Revere’s experience and expertise to collaborate on the Graduate Jeweler program,” mentioned Duncan Pay, GIA senior vice chairman of training and chief tutorial officer. 

“I can’t think about a greater alliance between the strongest gamers in modern American jewellery training.”