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Jewelry and Non-Ferous Metalworking Facilities

The Jewelry/Metals studios are on the 4th level of the art building. A separate graduate studio is situated directly across a patio area from the main metals facility and provides quiet, individual work and discussion areas for 11 graduate students. The main metals facility consists of the following:

  • three large interconnected workshops providing jewelry bench space with torches for 24
  • a well-equipped metalsmithing studio with pewter-working area
  • adjacent ventilated annealing/patina area
  • sheet and wire rolling mill
  • 36" sandblaster
  • metal band saw
  • small and large drill presses
  • 3 belt sanders
  • titanium rectifiers
  • oxygen/acetylene torches
  • micro torch
  • watch lathe
  • grinder and buffing machines
  • disc cutters
  • 50 ton hydraulic press
  • copper electroforming
  • spray etching
  • aluminum anodizing baths
  • large enameling kilns

The studio also has centrifugal and vacuum casting equipment including a wax injector, vulcanizer, electromelt, and large burnout kiln. A photography set-up and camera for small-scale work is available in the metals studio for student use. An art store on the courtyard level of the building provides a convenient source of supplies and materials.

This page was last updated at 1:31PM on June 3, 2008