Meet Our
Metals/Jewelry/CAD-CAM Faculty
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.
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Associate Professor of Instruction and Interim 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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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
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
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
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
Adjunct Professor
Casey Newberg
- Email: casey.newberg@temple.edu
Casey Newberg is an artist and metalsmith in Philadelphia, PA. Newberg received her MFA from the Metals/Jewelry, CAD/CAM program at Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia in 2022, and her undergraduate degree from Kendall College of Art and Design in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 2018. Her early career focused on larger scale electroformed vessels that were centered around form and her relationship with femininity.
After beginning at Tyler, her work began to focus on the ephemerality and - in her words - the "somewhat rotten nature of life." As she continued in graduate school, Newberg began developing work that focused on impermanence and followed lines of medical dependence and consumption. Her work now focuses on feelings of adulthood displacement and clouded trauma by placing familiar or recognizable objects in malignant contexts. Many of the pieces she’s created throughout the past two years incorporate foul language or rotten materials that by nature will self-destruct.
MFA, Tyler School of Art and Architecture
BFA, Kendall College of Art and Design
Adjunct Professor
Sharon Stampfer
- Email: sharon.stampfer@temple.edu
Sharon Stampfer embraces the physicality of working with her hands. After more than two decades working as an architectural designer, she fell in love with metalsmithing while learning to raise metal into vessel forms. She finds joy in the meditative nature of this craft and considers her practice a form of nurturing, in which she draws upon the patience and devotion honed while raising children. Her work is inspired by relationships, rituals and objects that promote and celebrate human connection.
Her process is research-driven. Rather than a focus on producing specific forms, she invites improvisation, experimentation, and play to lead toward new lines of inquiry. Acts of making create new potential, adding building blocks with which to construct a form language. Stampfer’s meticulous collection and documentation of her process is a rich visual library for her ongoing research and also an archive that reveals the tenderness she feels toward the work. Similar to the preservation of cherished moments in a child’s development, her collections capture ideas, and objects at their earliest stages, recording the stories of their evolution.
MFA, Tyler School of Art and Architecture
MArch, University of Pennsylvania
BFA, Barnard College, Columbia University
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
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