Academic Metals Directory · program
Status
Active
What happened
Real jewelry-fabrication teaching studio founded 2004 by Dana Ruth in Marietta/Atlanta GA; SNAG domain atlantaartworx.com now 301-redirects to modernmetalsmith.com. Owner relocated to Belfast, Maine in 2022 and rebranded as Modern Metalsmith, which still actively teaches metalsmithing/jewelry (in-person Foundation Series + online courses: soldering, forging, stone/bezel setting, ring & chain making). The Atlanta-located entity is defunct but the teaching business continues under the new name; classified active under successor.
Added in the 2026 program review; not in the original 2014 directory.
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