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Metals and Jewelry graduate student Tamar Navama curated the 2014 exhibition Curator. Cold Connections, a selection of works by past and present students of the UNT Metals & Jewelry program.

Core Design

The Core Program in the College of Visual Arts and Design provides the broad foundation to develop the practical skills and conceptual methodologies necessary to enter any of the Visual Arts majors within the College. The program promotes the understanding of historic and contemporary currents and their relationships.

The Core program achieves the following outcomes:

  • Materials and techniques;
  • Visual aesthetics and organization;
  • Creative processes;
  • Visual literacy (development of vocabulary, critical analysis, articulation of process and product; content and context);
  • Historic and contemporary visual cultures;
  • Professional pathways

Work completed by Core Design students demonstrates the rigorous critical inquiry, practical skill-building and visual exploration that are the hallmarks of this well-established program.

Faculty who teach in the Core Design program are accomplished artists and designers in their respective fields. They maintain active studio practices and exhibit their work nationally and internationally.

Student accomplishments

Becky Ben Lin

Becky Ben Lin received the Best Packaging prize for her Stylite Edison Lightbulbs at the DSVC Nation Student Show and Conference 10. She was also awarded a Judges Choice Award from Garrett Owen for this work. Karen Dorff was her professor.

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Communication Design

Becky Ben Lin received the Best Packaging prize for her Stylite Edison Lightbulbs at the DSVC Nation Student Show and Conference 10. She was also awarded a Judges Choice Award from Garrett Owen for this work. Karen Dorff was her professor.

Alumni accomplishments

Paul Booth

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Communication Design

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Communication Design