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Carnegie-Mellon University

university art department · Merged / renamed

last checked 2026-05-29

Now (checked 2026)

Status
Merged / renamed

Now known as
Carnegie Mellon University School of Art (metals taught as a media area within Sculpture / 3D studio practice)

What happened
The archived faculty entry "Carol Kumata ? to present" reflects the era when Kumata (at CMU since 1979) maintained the metals studio and taught metals/sculpture courses. Since ~2014 there was no closure of the School of Art, but the metals offering was never an independent degree program; it lived inside Sculpture/3D media. Kumata retired in 2021 and is now Professor Emerita of Art. After her retirement no dedicated metals-area faculty line is listed; current Sculpture, Installation & Site Work faculty (Isla Hansen, Britt Ransom, Yoko Sekino-Bové, Rachael Starbuck) cover 3D practice. So the "metals program" effectively continues only as scattered coursework/facilities under a renamed/restructured interdisciplinary model, not as the standalone listing the directory recorded.

Link
art.cmu.edu/

People

Faculty

Carol Kumata ? To Present

Trained here

Josefa Filkosky

Sources

https://art.cmu.edu/people/carol-kumata/https://art.cmu.edu/people/faculty/https://art.cmu.edu/about/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie_Mellon_School_of_Art https://www.meche.engineering.cmu.edu/education/courses/24-204.html http://www.art.cmu.edu/tag/carol-kumata/

From the original Tyler “Academic Metals Directory” (≈2014), brought current in 2026.

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