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The University of Oregon is located in Eugene, Oregon, a lively small city one hour from the Pacific Ocean to the west, the Cascade Mountain range to the east and close to active urban art communities in Portland and Seattle. Area Head of Jewelry & Metalsmithing, Anya Kivarkis is represented in both national and international gallery and exhibition venues and is establishing exciting new directions for the program. Professor Kate Wagle's research areas include adornment and sculpture. Her work is shown and published widely. Recent visiting faculty include Tracy Steepy, Sherry Simms and Bettina Dittlman.

UO Metalsmithing & Jewelry We support an active visiting artist program. Recent visitors in Metalsmithing include Beverly Penn, Bettina Speckner, Maria Phillips, Gary Griffin, Sondra Sherman, Carol Kumata, Fred Woell, Stephen Yusko, Chris Ramsay, Lisa Norton, Charon Kransen, Micki Lippe, Keith Lewis, Fred Fenster, Christina Smith, and former Metalsmith Magazine editor Frank Lewis, with plans for artists/workshops each year in the future.

The undergraduate metalsmithing program offers a range of technical and theoretical instruction, based in traditions of function and adornment, with emphasis on development of concept and critical analysis. A fifth year BFA focuses on the development of a body of individual works, incorporates portfolio preparation, and culminates in a BFA exhibition.

mfa

The MFA in Metalsmithing and Jewelry is a studio-based program focused on creative practice and research that demonstrate potential to advance in the field. We expect graduate students to arrive at an accomplished body of work, but also to acquire strategies and critical thinking skills necessary to sustain and develop professional practice and inquiry.

Our focus is on individual studio practice, the cultivation of a visual language, material process, and conceptual approach relevant to each student's intentions and sensibility. The graduate program includes graduate seminars dealing with specific theoretical issues, trips to workshops and events in the Northwest and beyond, and individual instruction in a variety of techniques. We encourage applicants to visit the facilities and meet the faculty. UO Metalsmithing & Jewelry

facilities

Metalsmithing facilities are located in the Northsite, a complex of studio spaces that also house ceramics, fibers, sculpture, photography, and multimedia design. The studio is well equipped with hand tools, hammers, stakes, rolling mills, hydraulic press, production casting equipment, spray etcher, and acetylene, oxy-acetylene, and natural gas/air torch systems. The recently renovated studio ventilation is comprehensive for all areas including soldering benches, production casting, chemical and acid hoods, enameling area, electro-forming, and aluminum anodizing equipment. Graduate students are located in a recently renovated, adjoining studio space with its own ventilation, soldering and work areas. A periodical collection and small metals-focus library are also available in the studio.



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