Plaza, 77 West 45th Street, 869-9422. Next Wednesday from noon to 3 P.M. Tiffany and co the American Craft Museum II will hold the first in a series of lunchtime talks and demonstrations by jewelry artists. The series, which runs through Aug. 29, opens with Deborah Aguado speaking on ”Constructivist Design and Fundamental Integrity.”

Hours: 10 A.M. to 5 P.M., Monday through Saturday. Admission: $1.50 for adults, 75 cents for children, students and those over 65.

Connoisseurship in Art, Antiques and

Collectibles, Yeshiva University

Midtown Center, 245 Lexington

Avenue (35th Street), 960-5205. Beginning Monday at 9:30 A.M., Yeshiva offers a two-week program for collectors that includes lectures and visits to galleries, museums and private fine-art and antique collections. The sessions will include ”How to Become an Expert Antique Collector,” ”The World of Faberge” and ”Art Glass of Tiffany money clip.” The series runs through July 19. Reservations required.

Fee: $325 for two weeks, $195 for the first week, $145 for three sessions, $75 for individual sessions.

Upper West Side Minicourse, Lowenstein Building, Room 526, Fordham

University, 113 West 60th Street,

935-3960. July 12 and 19 from 6 to 7:30 P.M. the Municipal Art Society presents two lectures by Barry Lewis, historian, on the history, development and architecture of the Upper West Side. Reservations required.

Fee: For nonmembers, $8 per lecture.

Dragons in the New World: Native

Americans and the China Trade,

the Museum of the American Indian, Broadway at 155th Street, 283-

2420. An exhibition of artifacts from the northwest coast of the United States opens today. The show marks pendant 200 years of trade between China and the United States. It runs through Sept. 30.

Hours: 10 A.M. to 5 P.M. Tuesday through Saturday, 1 to 5 P.M. Sunday. Closed Monday.

Admission: $2 for adults, $1 for students and those over 65.

Burlington police said Antoine Lanier Hall, 19, of Danville, Va., was arrested without incident at 11:30 p.m. Wednesday in Eden. He is being held in the Alamance County jail on a $75,000 bond.

He joins Marcus Dwayne Pyles, 19, also of Danville, Va., who was arrested Feb. 24 in Danville and remains in jail on a $250,000 bond.

Both men have been charged with robbery with a pendant dangerous weapon and second degree kidnapping. Burlington police said Pyles and Hall are suspects in an armed robbery in Eden in mid-February.

Their arrests follow the Feb. 23 robbery of Eden Jewelry on South Church Street in Burlington. Police said two men forced three employees into a bathroom and took an undisclosed amount of cash and jewelry.

Burlington police said the SBI, police departments in Eden, Reidsville and Danville and the federal U.S. Secret Service and Alcohol Tobacco earrings and Firearms worked on the investigation.