Cleveland Institute Of Art

art & design college · Merged / renamed

last checked 2026-05-29

As archived

Degrees
B.F.A

Now (checked 2026)

Status
Merged / renamed

Now known as
Jewelry + Metals concentration within the Craft + Design major

What happened
The independent Jewelry + Metals BFA major was consolidated into a new combined Craft + Design major (launched ~2022-23 academic year), with Jewelry + Metals retained only as a concentration alongside Ceramics and Glass. In April 2024 CIA's administration (per Dean Greg Watts) determined it was no longer sustainable to keep five ranked faculty in the combined major and eliminated two positions in Jewelry + Metals — those of longtime professors Kathy Buszkiewicz (faculty since 1983) and Matthew Hollern — effective end of FY2023-24, leaving a single instructor to cover the full breadth of the concentration (soldering, casting, CAD/3D modeling, etc.). A Change.org petition opposed the cuts. The concentration continues to exist but in a substantially reduced/restructured form.

Link
www.cia.edu/majors/craft-design/

People

Faculty

Arthur Pulos As A Visiting Professor In The Summer Sessions Of · 1949 and 1953Frederick Miller · 1947 to 1975John Paul Miller · 1946 to 1983Jon Havener · 1976 to 1977Kathy Buszkiewicz · 1983 to presentKenneth Bates · 1927 to 1968Lisa Norton · 1987 to 1988Matthew Hollern · 1989 to presentWilliam Harper As A Visiting Professor In · 1984 to 1985

Trained here

Allison SyesAnnika PetterssonFrederick MillerHarold HasselschwertJohn MarshallJohn Paul MillerJon HavenerLisa NortonMarilyn KochMary Ann ScherrWilliam Harper

Sources

https://www.cia.edu/news/cleveland-institute-of-art-announces-craft-design-major/https://www.cia.edu/majors/craft-design/https://www.cia.edu/academics/jewelry-metals https://www.change.org/p/petition-to-keep-kathy-buszkiewicz-and-matthew-hollern-at-cia https://www.cia.edu/news/craft-design-amplifies-collaborative-approach/https://www.cia.edu/faculty-and-staff/kathy-buszkiewicz/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleveland_Institute_of_Art

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

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