Metals & Jewelry Design

BFA in Metals & Jewelry Design

Are you drawn to metals? Love making jewelry? Have an eye for design and a love for craft? Students in our BFA program in Metals & Jewelry Design create wearable and functional art using tin, bronze, copper, nickel, silver, and gold, as well as modern materials like plastics and stainless steel. You’ll explore the history of metalworking and learn traditional as well as technology-based methods for producing your work. Students leave with the skills and portfolio they need to become working artists in this ancient art form.

Make a living AND make a difference.

Most art stems from the need to communicate an intensely personal vision. The result is an expression; a statement to contemplate and respond to. In jewelry design, the connection between art and audience becomes intensely personal, even physical. Each piece manifests not only the artist’s notion of beauty, but also the wearer’s.

Working artists

Our Metals and Jewelry Design graduates go on to pursue careers as independent jewelry designers, commercial jewelry designers, design supervisors, model makers, jewelry and metals buyers, jewelry production managers, bench jewelers, appraisers, educators, restorers, and more.