Jewelry + Metals

After learning the basics, you will utilize more advanced technologies, such as:

• Anodizing
• Computer-aided design/computer-aided manufacturing (CAD/CAM)
• Electroforming
• Rapid prototyping
• Forming and fabrication
• Lost-wax casting
• Sophisticated stone setting
• 3D modeling
• Working with mechanisms, mixed media, and machining

And you will analyze the history of the field, contemporary attitudes towards wearables and cultural objects, and significant artists and their works. To grow as an artist, you will need to continually develop skills, improve your knowledge, and broaden your experiences. As a Jewelry and Metals major, you will accomplish all of these goals through studio and research assignments, presentations, exhibitions, and field trips. Each year, you also will produce and submit work to the juried Student Independent Exhibition, a display of student work held in the Institute’s Reinberger Galleries, as well as our Spring Show.

Watch Jewelry + Metals students at work in the studio