SDSU School of Art, Design, and Art History

Jewelry and 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 9 graduate students. The main metals facility consists of the following:

Studio Work Spaces

• 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

Machines and Other Tools

• 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

Finishing / Surface Treatment

• 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
• copper electroforming
• spray etching
• aluminum anodizing baths
• large enameling kilns

Additional Facilities

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 2:45PM on September 24, 2008