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School for American Crafts

Between a moving performance, building an award-winning iron-melting device, and featured exhibitions, RIT students, faculty, staff and alumni were present in every corner of the National Conference on Contemporary Cast Iron Art and Practices.

From textiles to clay, Emmanuel Okechukwu’s journey at RIT was marked by an ambition to find a storytelling style with his ceramics that authentically shared his Nigerian lineage.

The New York Times features the work of Wendy Maruyama '80 MFA (woodworking and furniture design), one of the first two women to graduate with a master's degree in furniture making.

Central Penn Business Journal speaks to Stephanie Perrotti '06 (metalcrafts and jewelry) about her part in crafting the NFL Superbowl Vince Lombardi Trophy.

A group of six faculty members in RIT’s College of Art and Design have earned the University & Research Projects Award from the European Cultural Centre (ECC) for their collection of works, titled “Cultural Disruptors.”

Seven metals and jewelry design students and recent alumni exhibited their work during Milano Jewelry Week, with four of their pieces being selected as "winners" at the Talent Show event.

Six faculty are featured in an exhibition in Venice that showcases the College of Art and Design's breadth of creative disciplines through the unification of sculpture, film, photography, and industrial design. 

Focusing on their growth as artists is what motivated Alex Paat and 14 graduate students to create My, My, Tiger’s Eye, a new exhibition hosted at Flower City Arts Center.

College of Art and Design students were out in force documenting the rare total solar eclipse seen in Rochester, N.Y., and other parts of the country.

Students leveraged the variety of makerspaces in RIT's brand-new SHED facility to create arts-integrative work responding to a theme of "Play."

The Wall Street Journal talks to Andy Buck, professor in the School for American Crafts, about reupholstering old furniture. (This content requires a subscription to view.)

The New York Times talks to Elizabeth Kronfield, director of the School of Art and the School for American Crafts, about the rising interest in blacksmithing.