Expressive Pendant Making with Chloe Kono

Use small metal arts to express your affection for a person, thing, or idea on Valentine’s Day!

This jewelry making workshop will teach the basics through the design and fabrication of a pendant. Students will learn to use essential jewelry making hand tools, understand the properties of non-ferrous metals, and master foundational techniques including sawing, hammer texturing, riveting, and finishing. This workshop is perfect for those beginning or continuing their journey as a metalsmith, using simple sheet metal fabrication techniques.

The workshop will also introduce the use of patina, a surface coloring technique—a quasi time machine—which mimics the natural oxidation that occurs on metals over a prolonged period of time. The process enhances the texture, creating contrast and richness on the metal’s surface.

If you have a design that you’d like to make, it should be approximately 1 to 2 inches overall. Chloe will have designs on hand for students to try, or you can improvise.

Class fee includes raw materials and access to all tools and equipment needed to finish the project.

The workshop fee is $200. Limit of 8 students.

Parking: Since most of the parking in the area has a two hour limit, the most convenient option is to pay to park at the Beverly Connection less than a block west on W. Third Street. Handicapped parking is available behind Freehand.

Chloe Kono is a Los Angeles-based metalsmith. She earned her BFA degree from California State University, Long Beach in 2008 and has been actively exhibiting her metal art ever since.

Kono’s moniker, Chloeography, reflects how her creations resonate from her soul and body, full of emotion like a dance. She creates bespoke jewelry, which she considers a wearable mood booster for all. Her intention is to remind wearers to live life to the fullest, regardless of age, gender, body type or background. Her obsession with all things circus comes from not only its whimsical and unhinged aesthetics, but the core idea of how being different is something that should be celebrated as unique instead of shamed and tamed. As of 2024, She has been teaching metalsmithing workshops at Adam’s Forge and is determined to keep inspiring.