Metalsmithing & Jewelry Faculty

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The Metalsmithing area has three full-time faculty, Jon Havener, Lin Stanionis and Gina Westergard, who are involved in all levels of instruction within the program. The Metals faculty works with the graduate students on an independent basis and encourages a diverse involvement within the discipline. While having strong backgrounds in traditional jewelry and hollowware forms and processes, the faculty are diverse in their individual research activities. Jon Havener uses traditional smithing processes to fabricate large scale sculptures of bronze and steel. Lin Stanionis' work explores critical and political issues through the reinterpretation of traditional functional forms. Her work is fabricated from metal combined with a variety of non-traditional materials. Gina Westergard's research activities are directed toward kinetic jewelry, presented in sculptural display stands. Her work includes traditional jewelry and Metalsmithing techniques, stone settings, texture and color applications and mixed media.