Metals/Jewelry/CAD-CAM Faculty

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Metals/Jewelry/CAD-CAM Faculty

  • Adjunct Professor
    Metals/Jewelry/CAD-CAM

    Barb Baur

    • Email: barb.baur@temple.edu
    • Website: www.fairwindsjewelry.com

    • Barb Baur is a maker, artist and educator whose jewelry work is created using traditional techniques combined with modern fabrication tools. An experienced sailor, Baur’s artwork is inspired by patterns of wind and water with the forms of sailing vessels creating work that whimsically interacts with the body.

      MFA, Tyler School of Art and Architecture 
      BFA, Tyler School of Art and Architecture 

  • Adjunct Professor

    Adam Atkinson

    • Email: adam.atkinson@temple.edu

    • Adam Atkinson (he/they) is a metalsmith, curator, and educator. Atkinson received an MFA in Metal Design at East Carolina University in 2019, and a BFA in Interdisciplinary Studio Practices at Boise State University in 2013. Their work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including Boone Art and History Museum, Nagoya Zokei University, Nagoya, Japan, among others. They have been awarded numerous residencies, including the Emerging Artist Residency at the Baltimore Jewelry Center and the three-year residency at Penland School of Craft. They teach widely across the United States.

      MFA, School of Art and Design, East Carolina University
      BFA, Boise State University, Boise, ID

  • Adjunct Professor

    James Betts

    • Email: james.betts@temple.edu

    • James Betts is an artist and designer currently living and working in Philadelphia. Since graduating with as MFA in Metals/Jewelry/CAD/CAM at the Tyler School of Art and Architecture, his current work utilizes digital technology to illustrate psychological and visual phenomena.

      MFA, Tyler School of Art and Architecture
      BFA, Tyler School of Art and Architecture

       

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    Assistant Professor and Program Head of Metals/Jewelry/CAD-CAM
    Metals/Jewelry/CAD-CAM

    Doug Bucci

    • Email: dbucci@temple.edu
    • Phone: 215-777-9129
    • Office: Tyler 220
    • Website: www.dougbucci.com

    • ON LEAVE, FALL 2024

      Doug Bucci is an artist and educator in the field of jewelry whose work utilizes digital processes to explore and display biological systems and the effect of disease on the body. Computer aided technologies allow Bucci to view and simulate not only data but patterns and cell forms, which can be transformed into meaningful, personal and wearable art. Bucci views his digital process as one that allows for a creative freedom unfound in traditional handmade methods.
       
      His work is in the collections of the Windsor Castle,...

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    Adjunct Professor
    Metals/Jewelry/CAD-CAM

    Valerie James

    • Email: valerie.james@temple.edu
    • Website: http://www.valerie-james.com

    • Valerie James is an artist based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She received her BFA in 2016 from Tyler School of Art and an MFA in Jewelry and Metalsmithing from Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in 2019. Through the format of jewelry, James translates the gesture and psychology of traversed spaces. Using various techniques such as engraving, she conveys the mobility of jewelry, and the agency it instills both in and out of the studio. 

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  • Professor Emeritus
    Metals/Jewelry/CAD-CAM

    Stanley Lechtzin

    • Email: stanlech@temple.edu

    • Stanley Lechtzin founded Tyler's Jewelry and Metals program in 1962. He is also a founding member of the Society of North American Goldsmiths. In 2009, he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society of North American Goldsmiths. He was elected to the College of Fellows of the American Crafts Council in 1992 and was the recipient of Temple University's Great Teacher Award in 1989.

      His work can be found in numerous permanent collections including the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Design; the Detroit Institute of Arts; Goldsmiths' Hall in London; the Metropolitan Museum of Art's "Donna Schneier Collection"; The National Museum of American Art; and The Philadelphia Museum of Art, among many others.

      MFA, Cranbook Academy of Art
      BFA, Wayne State University

  • Adjunct Professor

    Sarah Montagnoli

    • Email: Sarah.Montagnoli@temple.edu

    • Sarah Montagnoli is a jeweler and metalsmith based in Philadelphia, PA. Montagnoli received her MFA from the Metals/Jewelry/CAD-CAM program at Tyler School of Art and Architecture in 2021, and BFA from Moore College of Art and Design in 2018. Her research is interested in metal that is hand pierced or Water Jet Cut with patterns of perforations, and this materials response to pressure in processes utilizing the hydraulic press. Pillowed metal acts as a container or cage, which houses materials like silicone, faux furs, felt, and flock, which ask the viewer to engage with these objects in a more intimate way through acts such as petting, squeezing, and caressing.

      MFA, Tyler School of Art and Architecture
      BFA , Moore College of Art and Design

  • Professor Emerita
    Metals/Jewelry/CAD-CAM

    Vickie Lee Sedman

    • Email: sedman@temple.edu
    • Office: Suite 202 Tyler
    • Website: www.vickie-sedman.com

    • Vickie Sedman has taught at the Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University since 1974. She received a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship Award and a NEA Craftsmen's Fellowship. She has shown both nationally and internationally and is included in the collections at the Columbus Museum of Fine Art and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

      MFA University of Wisconsin
      BFA Wayne State University

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    Associate Professor of Instruction and Program Head of Metals/Jewelry/CAD-CAM
    Metals/Jewelry/CAD-CAM

    Mallory Weston

    • Email: mallory.weston@temple.edu
    • Phone: 908-310-5471
    • Office: Tyler 220E
    • Website: www.malloryweston.com

    • Mallory Weston is an artist whose work involves a marriage between traditional jewelry and metalsmithing techniques and textile techniques to create large-scale wearable pieces. She merges analog processes with computer-aided design to create objects of a hybrid origin. Her work was recently featured in solo exhibitions at Baltimore Jewelry Center and Sienna Patti Contemporary in Massachusetts. She was recognized as the 2022 recipient of the prestigious Art Jewelry Forum Young Artist Award.

      Weston is an engaged participant in the global art jewelry community, regularly...

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