Academic Metals Directory · program
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What happened
Real Brooklyn, NY craft school founded 1994 by master silversmith Valentin Yotkov; bills itself as the only US school specializing in chasing & repousse. Currently offers weekly metals classes (Chasing & Repousse, Constructed Hollowware, Chasing on a 3D Vessel) plus intensive workshops and private tutoring; 1500+ jewelers/metalsmiths have trained there. Sole instructor is Yotkov. Site copyright runs to 2014 (no hard 2025-26 dated event found), but no sign of closure and widely cited as active year-round; SNAG-listed.
Added in the 2026 program review; not in the original 2014 directory.
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