Metal
The Metal / Jewelry Program is dedicated to the idea that a student's future success is dependent on creative excellence, strong technical skills and good basic liberal arts education.
Courses are designed to allow each student the opportunity to pursue a personal direction in their work that may be traditional or non-traditional, applied or non-applied. While emphasis is placed on ideation, the courses promote an atmosphere conducive to material and technical exploration. The beginning jewelry course focuses on the development of basic skills such as fabrication/soldering, cold connections, basic forming methods, bezel setting of cabochon stones, surface treatment and embellishment, and a variety of casting processes. Metalsmithing concentrates on metal-forming skills such as raising, seaming, and sinking as well as introducing additional technical information such as die forming, hinge making, basic enameling, lapidary and mold-making.