NEW PALTZ METAL
MFA & BFA PROGRAM
This website is dedicated to recent curated exhibition projects created by the SUNY New Paltz Metal Program, featuring the student artists and faculty of the program. Over the years, we have created program exhibitions at New York City Jewelry Week, Under the Stairs at the Pinakothek Der Moderne in Munich, Adorned Spaces at SNAG Conferences, and site specific projects at local historical landmarks such as The Matthewis Persen House in Kingston, NY and Historic Huguenot Street in New Paltz, NY.
SUNY New Paltz is among the largest graduate metal programs in the country and has earned the distinction of being the #1-ranked public university metal program. New Paltz Metal is an active area of study that engages a wide variety of ideas, objects, images, and modes of making toward critical and dynamic outcomes. Students and faculty form a community of inquiry that seeks to expand the field’s discourse. The rigorous curriculum provides opportunities to explore the technical, aesthetic, and conceptual aspects of contemporary jewelry and metalsmithing in a state-of-the-art facility with teachers who are actively engaged artists and who exhibit and lecture internationally. The program faculty include Myra Mimlitsch-Gray, Lynn Batchelder, and Amelia Toelke.
