The University Of Michigan

Now (checked 2026)

Status
Merged / renamed

Now known as
Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design — Jewelry/Metalsmithing studio area

What happened
The archived faculty — Hiroko Sato-Pijanowski (1986–) and Eugene "Gene" Pijanowski (1991–), who actually began teaching at Michigan in 1978 and pioneered mokume-gane in the US — have since retired; Hiroko Sato-Pijanowski is now Professor Emerita and the couple were inducted into the American Craft Council's College of Fellows. The host school, formerly the U-M School of Art & Design, was renamed the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design (2012, after a major gift). Metalsmithing/jewelry was not closed; it continues as a studio/concentration area within the Stamps BFA/BA structure rather than as the named program it was in the dedicated-metals-faculty era. No standalone metals "program head" exists today; leadership is at the school level (Dean Carlos F. Jackson).

Link
stamps.umich.edu/