As a student in the Metals/Jewelry/CAD-CAM
major, you use the traditional metals: gold,
silver, bronze, and copper. Modern materials
such as titanium and plastic are also available.
The faculty stresses traditional techniques
and materials and their historical significance.
In the advanced courses, you are encouraged
to use the latest technologies in this field.
This area offers exceptional facilities. Considered the most
advanced in any art school, they include the only completely
equipped electroforming lab in the country.
Computer-Aided-Design has been a part of the Metals/Jewelry/CAD-CAM
curriculum for nearly two decades. This provides our students
access to faculty with exceptional experience in this very important
and rapidly developing addition to the discipline.
The broad curriculum in the Metals/Jewelry/
CAD-CAM Area includes specialized courses
that introduce you to the important new realm
of computer-aided design and computer-aided
manufacture. Representative of other distinctive
courses are Electroforming, Plastics, and
Photo Etching-Jewelry. Assignments often
focus on the creation of rings, pins, earrings,
and bracelets. You can also expand into furniture,
toy, and consumer product design.
While developing your personal aesthetic, you will prepare to
be a working professional artist. The Business Practices in the
Crafts course explores the opportunities for employment in industry
and business. The faculty also focus on the skills needed to
establish your own studio. An extensive collection of slide and
tape interviews of leaders in the metals field is used by the
faculty to augment discussions of the options available to emerging
artists.
There are several unique aspects to Tyler°s undergraduate Metals/Jewelry/CAD-CAM
program. As a third- and fourth-year student, you work closely
with faculty and graduate student tutors. At the senior level,
there is the opportunity to join the Senior Metals Seminar and
acquire a private work space.
Tyler's Metals/Jewelry/CAD-CAM Area has an
exchange program for juniors with
the Department of Jewelry and Silversmithing
of the Bezalel Academy of Arts and
Design in Jerusalem, Israel. The
area also participates in a faculty
and student exchange program with
the Glasgow School of Art in Scotland.
BFA Required Courses
Sophomore
Prerequisite:
Junior Major:
- Junior Metalsmithing, 0265 and 0266
- One specialized metals course
- CAD-CAM I, 0133 or 0233
Senior Major:
- Senior Metals and Plastics, 0363 and
0364
- One specialized metals course
- CAD-CAM II, 0234
- Business Practices in the Crafts, W0387
