Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education students Yeung hau-yan, 20, (left) and Wong Yuen-ling, 22, take a shine to jewellery in the hands of expert Arline Fisch, an emeritus professor at Santiago University, California. Professor Fisch, author of Textile Techniques in Metal, is in Hong Kong for 12 days at the invitation of the institute to hold workshops on her creative style and has been working with students at the institute's Sha Tin campus as well as holding weekend workshops open to the jewellery trade. Professor Fisch, who retired in 2000, was invited after meeting institute senior lecturer Vivian Cheng Wai-kwan during a short course at the Alchimia jewellery school in Florence, Italy. She will follow an exhibition of her work with a lecture open to the public in Room 029 of the Sha Tin campus on Monday at 4pm.