Metalsmithing & Jewelry Faculty

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The Metalsmithing/Jewelry faculty, Jon Havener, Lin Stanionis, and Gina Westergard, work with graduate students individually, encouraging a range of exploration and innovation within the discipline. With strong backgrounds in traditional jewelry making, hollowware forms and processes, the faculty’s individual research activities are diverse.

Havener uses traditional smithing processes to fabricate large-scale, indoor and outdoor sculptures in bronze and steel with vibrant patinated surfaces. Stanionis’ work explores the function and meaning of objects. Often combining precious and semi-precious materials, she creates pieces using symbolic language to examine the role of the body in divine experience. Westergard creates large-scale, richly-textures vessels that are layered with many colors. Nestled into each vessel are small, intricately detailed jeweled pieces.