Academic Metals Directory · program
Status
Active
What happened
Rio Grande is a major jewelry-supply manufacturer/wholesaler (founded 1944, Albuquerque NM; Berkshire Hathaway-owned since 2013), NOT primarily a craft center. It does offer hands-on/online jewelry-making classes and workshops (enameling, stone setting, metal forming, fabrication) plus a Knowledge Hub and "Rio for Schools" educator/student program, so it does currently teach metals/jewelry. SNAG's "craft-center" tag is a mis-categorization — it is a supplier with an education arm. Active and operating (returning to JCK 2026). No individual metals/jewelry instructors reliably findable by name, so faculty left empty per no-invent rule.
Added in the 2026 program review; not in the original 2014 directory.
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