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.

  • Supplied rental tool kits provided to 100-200 level classes. 

  • Individual studio benches for MFA, third, and fourth-year students. 

  • Variety of torches for small to large scale metalsmithing. 

  • Casting facilities, centrifugal, vacuum, and sand casting. 

  • Enamelling equipment and kilns. 

  • Manual and power rolling mills. 

  • Reactive metal(s) anodizing. 

  • Ceramic e-coating system. 

  •  Etching, and patination baths. 

  •  Hydraulic presses with assortment of Bonny Doon tools/attachments. 

  • Tumbling equipment – (steel shot barrels and magnetic). 

  • Large selection of metal forming tools; hammers, stakes, stumps, and anvils. 

  • Small scale sandblaster. 

  • Belt sanders and grinders for tool making. 

  • Large metal shear. 

  • Large metal break shear. 

  • Wire draw bench. 

  • Ultrasonic cleaning equipment. 

  • Assortment of hand tools available to borrow. 

Faculty

Full-time faculty

Jamie Kroeger

Alumni

Notable alumni

Kari Woo

Dylan Eddy