Hard to Find

School / Making Technics Theory Research ProfessionalPractice

Published: 10.04.2019

Hard to Find

: Av. Hidalgo 1245
44160 - Guadalajara
MEXICO

: Website HTF; Facebook Page HTF; Twitter HTF; Instragram HTF

Mail:: cursoshtf.org.mx

Phone:: +52 33 3825 5057

Management:: Oswaldo Ibarra

Exterior of the school

Hard to Find is located in Guadalajara, Mexico, recently opened on 2013, and hosting workshops for recognized jewelers and artists from all over the world, as long as a one year program for people who is interested in jewellery as a way of expression and as a way of living.

We have got knowledge from other continents. We have searched for the great masters in big cities, on the big issues.
We have witnessed the enormous cost of ignorance and the way it enslaves the sufferers.
We have also seen how the one who learns takes off. How they give more light to the world with their knowledge and talent.
We want to bring the knowledge of great masters to the great passionate. We want to open paths for discovery, to show what did not exist.
We want to be the place where those who already know get passion infected and those who are thirsty of knowledge awake to new possibilities.

Past workshops at Hard to Find:

Ruudt Peters, 2014 /16.
Kimiaki Kageyama, 2014 / 15 / 16 / 17 / 18.
Barbara Brocchi, 2013 / 14 / 15 / 16 / 17 /18.
Hanna Hedman, 2014.
Istvan Orosz 2014 / 15.
Katja Prins, 2015 / 16.
Sarah Campbell, 2015 / 17/19.
Hilary Simon, 2015.
Edgar López, 2016.
Felipe Cárdenas 2017 /18.
Jamie Bennett, 2016 /17 / 18.
Shinji Nakaba, 2018.

Teachers

Ramón Romero, Silver and Goldsmith professor
Raúl García, Goldsmith and setting professor
Paula Guzmán, Jewellery Design professor and Creative Director in Hard to Find.
Héctor Guzmán, Brief and Concept and Branding professor.
Luis Bolivar, Editorial Photography
Oswaldo Ibarra, Business Models and Numbers for Creatives professor and Managing Director of Hard to Find.

Visiting artists, professors and lecturers:
Ruudt Peters, artist workshop and lecturer.
Hanna Hedman, artist workshop
Katja Prins, artist workshop and lecturer.
Barbara Brocchi, Illustration professor.
Kimiaki Kageyama, artist workshop and lecturer.
Sarah Campbell, artist textile workshop.
Hilary Simon, artist textile workshop.
Istvan Orosz, artist workshop and lecturer.
Jamie Bennet, artist workshop.
Shinji Nakaba, artist workshop.
Felipe Cárdenas, artist workshop.
Daniela Malev, artist workshop and lecturer.
Ted Noten, artist workshop.

Activities

May 17th – May 19th 2019, Daniela Malev, Workshop Two sides one story.

June 5th – June 16th 2019, Out of Town - The Netherlands. 3 day Workshop Ted Noten.

August 12th – August 17th 2019, Felipe Cárdenas, Workshop The magic of Forging.

August 19th – August 24th 2019, Kimiaki Kageyama. Workshop Gold Gradation & Nunome inlay.

September 23rd – October 4th 2019, Barbara Brocchi, Workshop Jewellery Illustration.

November 25th – November 29th 2019, Jamie Bennett, Workshop Enamel for Jewellery.

For more information, please write to: cursos@htf.org.mx

Courses

Inner Artisan, Foundation Year, One year Diploma.

01Jul2019 - 30Jun2020

DEADLINE: 20/Jun/2019

Application
Tags: Making , Research , CriticalThinking , Design , ProfessionalPractice , Technics , OpenAllYear
Management person: Oswaldo Ibarra

We start every January and July

July: Classes go from July 1st, 2019 to June 20th, 2020, application deadline - June 20th, 2019.
January: Classes go from January 15th, 2020 to- December 18th, 2020, application deadline - January 5th, 2020.

This is the foundation year for jewellery students, the program includes:

Basic jewellery making techniques
Thinking development tools
Jewellery design
DNA & Branding
Business model generation
Numbers for creatives
Brand Launch

Student requires 9 hours a week at school for a total of 380 class hours a year.

Teachers:
Ramón Romero, Silver and Goldsmith professor
Paula Guzmán, Jewellery Design professor and Creative Director in Hard to Find.
Héctor Guzmán, Brief and Concept and Branding professor
Oswaldo Ibarra, Business Models and Numbers for Creatives professor and Managing Director of Hard to Find.

Price:
Enrolment fee: 300 usd ( includes a small tools kit for beginners)
One year fee: 3400 usd (includes all materials you need to learn *** not precious materials)

Language: All lessons are in Spanish.
If you need a co-working space in our lab you can rent a place to keep working besides school hours.

For more information, please write to: cursos@htf.org.mx

All about setting

11Jul2019 - 03Jul2020

DEADLINE: 20/Jun/2019

Application
Tags: Making , Research , CriticalThinking , Design , ProfessionalPractice , Technics , OpenAllYear
Management person: Oswaldo Ibarra

We start every March and July

March: Classes go from March 9th, 2020 to February 11th, 2021. Application deadline: February 28th, 2020.
July: Classes go from July 11th, 2019 to July 3rd, 2020. Application deadline: June 20th, 2019.

All about setting is a course for people that enjoys the pleasure of setting stones in different range of techniques, this is 1 year long course where you will be able to find the time to become better jeweler, you will improve your soldering while you have to solder very tiny pieces in order to create movement in your pieces, time to go further in your creativity, design, re-think about the DNA of your brand, and analyze if your business model is working as it was suppose to.
This is not for beginners, this is an opportunity to go further in your personal project and in your technical skills.,
The program includes:

Advanced Goldsmithing jewellery making techniques
Color Treatments for precious metals
Advanced Jewellery design
Advanced Drawing
Consumer Trends
Editorial photography for jewellery
Strategies for Creative Development
Business model feed back
Final public presentation

Teachers:
Raúl García, Goldsmith and setting professor
Paula Guzmán, Jewellery Design professor and Creative Director in Hard to Find.
Héctor Guzmán, Brief and Concept and Branding professor
Oswaldo Ibarra, Business Models and Numbers for Creatives professor and Managing Director of Hard to Find.
Luis Bolivar, Editorial Photography
Felipe Cardenas, forging professor
Barbara Brocchi, Advance Jewelry Illustration

Price:
Enrolment fee: 300 usd ( includes a small tools kit for beginners)
One year fee: 4300 usd (includes all materials you need to learn *** not precious materials)

Language: All lessons are in Spanish.
If you need a co-working space in our lab you can rent a place to keep working besides school hours.

Student requires 9 hours a week at school for a total of 426 class hours a year.
For more information, please write to: cursos@htf.org.mx