Graduate Program in Jewelry/Metals/Enameling
The Jewelry/Metals/Enameling program places a strong emphasis on critical thinking and allows students to build individual research strategies for developing a coherent and distinctive body of work.
Investigations of inter-media and interdisciplinary relationships are part of the curricular focus. Students are expected to be conscious of and involved in contemporary practices, discourse, and trends nationally and globally among the field and within the larger arts/crafts/design movements. In addition to time in their own studio, graduate students have opportunities to enhance existing skills and knowledge by observing undergraduate class demonstrations and critiques. Graduate students are encouraged to use both traditional and contemporary studio practices while having access to an array of metalsmithing equipment, enameling kilns, as well as a school-wide digital fabrication lab.
The School of Art offers both the Master of Arts degree in Studio Art and the Master of Fine Arts degree in Jewelry/Metals/Enameling. Both programs prepare students with the professional skills, strategies, and experiences necessary to ignite and sustain the momentum for a career in studio craft, teaching or other facets of the field. The faculty in Jewelry/Metals/Enameling has been strong since the beginning of the program in 1950. Over the years, Mary Ann Scherr, Paul Van Dynwick, Bruce Metcalf, and Kathleen Browne were program heads. For many years, Mel Someroski headed the enameling area.
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For more information or to schedule a visit, contact Assistant Professor, Andrew Kuebeck at akuebeck@kent.edu or 330-672-2910.