Academic Metals Directory · program

The Florida State University

university art department · Closed

last checked 2026-05-29

As archived

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

Now (checked 2026)

Status
Closed

What happened
The archived record's dates are unreliable. The metals/jewelry/enameling program at FSU was anchored by William Harper, who taught there 1973–1992 (named Distinguished Professor at the end of his tenure), not "1974 to present" as the archive states. Lisa Norton appears as short-term (1988–1989) faculty. After Harper's 1992 departure the dedicated metals/jewelry area did not persist as a named studio concentration. The current Department of Art's published focus areas (verified May 2026) contain no metals/jewelry program — only ceramics, drawing, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, and digital/electronic media. Best read: the program effectively closed/lapsed after the Harper era and was not continued or renamed as a metals area; FSU never developed a CAD-CAM jewelry track. Some metalworking capability survives only as a shared metal shop within sculpture/studio art, not as a degree program.

Link
art.fsu.edu/focus-areas/

People

Faculty

Lisa Norton · 1988 to 1989William Harper · 1974 to present

Trained here

Enzo Torcoletti

Sources

https://registrar.fsu.edu/bulletin/undergraduate-departments/art https://art.fsu.edu/focus-areas/https://art.fsu.edu/graduate/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Claude_Harper https://www.enamelarts.org/william-harper/https://cfa.fsu.edu/programs/mfa-studio-art/

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

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