Jewellery and Metals
Bachelor of Fine Arts
Concentration
Master of Fine Arts
Jewellery and Metals
Jewellery and Metals offers a multidisciplinary concentration that balances creative problem-solving, technical proficiency and entrepreneurship skills with context, currency, history and criticality.
Hone your design and drawing abilities and your critical and research skills as you learn gemstone setting, casting, chasing, tool making, molding, anodizing and techniques for one-of-a-kind production work.
Jewellery and Metals concentration
The Jewellery and Metals concentration delivers a foundational skill set in the medium by exploring fabrication, casting and surface treatment. Additional courses from the Object Design and Fabrication minor and Craft History and Theory round out the minor's offerings. Students pursuing this minor will learn to work with diverse materials, making connections between art, craft and design disciplines.
Popular courses
- JWLM 205 Jewellery and Metals
- JWLM 321 Mechanisms
- JWLM 410 Advanced Studio I
- JWLM 451 Advanced Studio Seminar
Careers include:
- Jeweller
- Accessory designer
- Metalsmith
- Jewellery purchaser
- Stylist
- Arts administrator
- Educator
- Entrepreneur
- Curator
Studio facilities
High-quality studio facilities provide Jewellery and Metals students with the full spectrum of practice, from industrial jewellery to conceptual art.
- Laser welder, PUK II fusion welder
- Aluminum anodizing system and reactive metals anodizing
- Casting facilities, centrifugal, vacuum, sand casting
- Stone-setting microscope
- Makerbots and access to wax carver for digital production
- Full gemmology equipment and instruments
- Enameling and PMC programmable kilns
- Small object photography systems
- Individual studio benches for third- and fourth-year students