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East Texas Baptist University

university art department · Closed

last checked 2026-05-29

As archived

Degrees
B.F.A, M.F.A

Now (checked 2026)

Status
Closed

What happened
There was never a metals/jewelry program at ETBU to close, merge, or rename. The archived directory record carries "metals program started: unknown" and "faculty: n/a," consistent with an erroneous/stub directory entry. The university's 2010-2011 academic catalog lists only a single general elective art course (ARTS 1302 Fundamentals of Art) and zero jewelry/metals/metalsmithing/silversmithing/goldsmithing courses anywhere in the catalog; there was no art major then and none now. Note web searches frequently confuse ETBU with East Tennessee State University (ETSU), which does run a Jewelry & Metals area — the rich "piercing, soldering, casting" course descriptions returned by search belong to ETSU, not ETBU. Since ~2014 ETBU's visual-arts side has consolidated around Visual Communication (and briefly a Digital Arts BA that was discontinued after 2022-2023); no metals program figured in any of it.

Link
www.etbu.edu/academics/academic-majors-and-minors-quick-reference

Sources

https://www.etbu.edu/academics/academic-majors-and-minors-quick-reference https://www.etbu.edu/sites/default/files/downloads/2010-2011.pdf https://www.etbu.edu/info-for/current-students/academic-catalogs https://www.etsu.edu/cas/art/areas_of_study/jewelrydesign.php https://www.etbu.edu/academics/academic-schools/school-communication-performing-arts/department-communication/programs/digital-arts-ba

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

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