See the Jewelry and Metal Arts Program web site for additional information . The Jewelry and Metal Arts program provides students a rich and stimulating environment for the development of their creativity, concepts, and technical skills. Students work freely without media boundaries to produce conceptual and/or functional jewelry, hollowware, flatware, indoor and outdoor sculpture, mixed media objects, installation pieces, and other functional and nonfunctional objects.
Our program is known for pioneering the use of new materials, improving and developing cutting edge technologies, and progressive concepts. This leads students to produce a substantial quantity of high-quality work for their professional portfolios, exhibitions, competitions, and publications. Our students? work has been consistently accepted into numerous national and international competitions, many receiving awards. Outstanding works of the graduates from this program have been acquired by major museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the American Craft Museum, and the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Design-Cooper-Hewitt Museum. Many of these pieces were produced at the metals studio while the artists were still graduate students.
- Program offers BA, BFA, MA, MFA degrees.
- Courses offered are: Introduction to Jewelry and Metal Arts, Intermediate Jewelry and Metal Arts, Advanced Jewelry and Metal Arts, Mixed Media Workshop, and Graduate Metal Workshop.
- Entering graduate students are expected to be self-motivated, skilled in fundamental metalworking techniques, and capable of technical and conceptual exploration and of producing independent work.
- The program places great emphasis on creativity and originality. The student will develop their personal artistic directions and styles. Students are encouraged to explore progressive concepts, use new materials, and develop new techniques. Students will learn to refine a variety of traditional, contemporary, and innovative metalworking techniques and other media processes.
- Students learn through demonstrations, slides, lectures, individual and group discussion/critiques, visiting artists' workshops, reading, and project assignments. Graduate workshop emphasizes portfolio preparation, participation in national and international exhibitions, practicing presentation and teaching skills, marketing experiences, in addition to working toward their professional goals.
In order to give students a broader range of career options, students have the opportunity to use tools such as AutoCAD, Rhino, 3D computer modeling, laser cutting, PhotoShop, and other advanced industrial techniques to create, render, and achieve the layouts of their designs to make one-of-a-kind or production art work. These skills help students working in many other fields as well. One of our most recent acquisitions is the "Dimension SST" 3-D printer (a rapid prototyping machine), the device converts a digital model into a real-world ABS plastic prototype. The plastic form can be used as it exists or can be transformed into metal with processes such as casting and electroforming.
- The Jewelry/Metal Arts Studio is composed of a well-equipped and well-ventilated graduate and a general metals studio. Each graduate student is provided with an individual bench in the graduate studio.
The metals studio provides students with access to all the major equipment and tools needed to explore traditional, contemporary, and experimental processes. Our facilities include a 200-gallon copper-plating tank (the largest electroforming unit of any art school in the United States), a 90-gallon aluminum anodization tank, metal lathe, forming and milling equipment, a TIG welder, an English wheel, casting and enameling equipment, to name a few. The studio is also well equipped with advanced computers and computer aided machines, including a "Dimension SST" 3-D printer (a Rapid Prototyping machine), 4 - axis desktop CNC milling machine, PC and MAC systems with slide and flatbed scanners.
- The program provides students with excellent reference resources for research on new concepts and technology. Our Art Library has a rich collection of historical and contemporary books, periodicals, and catalogs on jewelry and metal arts. The studio has large collections of slides and other visual materials on jewelry and metal arts as well. The program also provides students with computer and Internet access in the studio.
Scholarships
Three teaching assistantships and tuition scholarships are available for outstanding graduate students. The total number of graduate students is limited to ten. Faculty members raise funds for students' tuition scholarships and material fees. Currently, all graduate students are receiving partial tuition scholarships as well as material scholarships donated by our Metal Arts program supporters.
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