Students refine their skills as they study and create utilitarian objects, nonfunctional objects, jewelry and metal sculpture.
Jewelry and Metalsmithing majors work with ferrous and nonferrous metals using these and many other tools:

  • full anodizing system
  • individual soldering stations, an assortment of raising and forming stakes and hammers
  • electroformer
  • centrifuge and vacuum for casting
  • enameling kilns
  • sandblaster
  • die former

Bachelor of Fine Arts degrees providing comprehensive preparation for professional practice also are offered in the following areas:

  • Ceramics
  • Graphic Design
  • Painting and Drawing
  • Photography
  • Printmaking
  • Sculpture

Students in the Mary Schiller Myers School of Art at UA also may earn a Bachelor of Arts in:

  • Art Education
  • Art History
  • Studio Art

Our Faculty

  • are practicing artists, designers and scholars
  • place a premium on personal attention and excellent advising
  • work side-by-side with students to help turn aspirations into accomplishments