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Southwestern College

community / technical college · Active
last checked 2026-05-30

Now (checked 2026)

Status
Active

What happened
Public community college in Chula Vista, CA. Its Art program offers a full jewelry/metalwork sequence: ART 185A–D (Jewelry and Metalwork I–IV) plus ART 186A–D open-studio labs, covering soldering, forging, raising, hydraulic press, titanium anodizing, stonesetting, and precious metals. Active 2025–26. Art Dept Chair: John Pickelle. (This is the CA community college, not Southwestern University or the Southwest School of Art in TX.)

Link
catalog.swccd.edu/course-descriptions/art/

Trained here


Sources

https://catalog.swccd.edu/course-descriptions/art/

Added in the 2026 program review; not in the original 2014 directory.

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