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University Of Massachusetts / Dartmouth

university art department · Active
last checked 2026-05-29

As archived

Program began
1975

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

Now (checked 2026)

Status
Active

What happened
Continuation, not closure. The program persists in the modern UMass Dartmouth catalog with BFA + MFA degrees. Notably, the two most recent archived faculty — Alan Burton Thompson (listed "1987 to present") and Susan Hamlet ("1988 to present") — are both still on the active faculty, with Thompson now serving as department chair, indicating direct leadership continuity from the archived record. The program now lives within CVPA's combined Departments of Artisanry, Fine Arts, and Visual Design; certificate/online offerings (e.g., a one-year online Artisanry certificate) have been added. No closure, merge, or rename of the jewelry/metals discipline was found.

Link
www.umassd.edu/programs/jewelry-metals/

People

Faculty
Alan Burton Thompson · 1987 to presentArline Fisch · 1975 to 1976J. Fred Woell · 1976 to 1985Jaimie Bennett · 1978 to 1985Susan Hamlet · 1988 to present

Sources

https://www.umassd.edu/programs/jewelry-metals/https://catalog.umassd.edu/preview_entity.php?catoid=64&ent_oid=3152&returnto=5332https://catalog.umassd.edu/preview_program.php?catoid=62&poid=9009&returnto=5021https://www.massachusetts.edu/program-finder/dartmouth-artisanry-jewelrymetals-6846https://www.umassd.edu/cvpa/facilities/jewelry-metals/

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

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