CRAFT & MATERIAL STUDIES
Craft and Material Studies investigates the expressive possibilities of materials through rigorous hands-on work.

Yazmin Dabbneh

Jacob Martinez
Five Specialties
While students explore the expressive possibilities of a variety of materials, they remain grounded in a single material discipline: Ceramics, Glass, Fiber and Textiles or Metalsmithing and Jewelry.
Ceramics
Fiber & Textiles
Glass
Metalsmithing & Jewelry
Digital Fabrication Minor
Craft & Material Studies graduates can expect to work in a vast array of industries from a studio practice/small business entrepreneurship, freelance artist/designer for manufacturing and architecture to clay modeling and color and trim for the auto industry.
CAREER CHOICES
Art Educator
Blacksmith
Ceramic Artist
Clay Modeler
Color and Trim Designer
Colorist
Costume Designer
Fashion Accessories Designer
Furniture Designer
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Gallery Owner
Glass Artist
Independent Artist
Jewelry Designer
Material Designer
Metalsmith
Mold Maker
Ornamental Architecture Fabricator
Print & Pattern Designer
Prop Designer
Sculptor
Set Designer
Surface Designer
Textile Designer
Tile Designer
Previous Internships
AK Services
Anderson Ranch Arts Center
Anthropologie
Arden Companies
Art Farm
Baron Glassworks
City Bird
Collins and Aikman
Context Furniture
Crypton Fabrics
DVF (Diane von Furstenberg)
Edsel and Eleanor Ford House
Elements
Furnace Hot Glass
General Motors
Greenfield Village
Hayashi of America
Italmoda Furniture
Jean Bartlett
Lankton Metal Design
Mark A Young Jewelers
Marlaina Stone
METTAL
Miriam Haskell
Mount Clemens Blown Glass
Ox-Bow
Pilchuck Glass School
Pittsburgh Glass Center
Proenza Schouler
Queso Cabeza Farm
Revolution Gallery
Stefani & Co
StyleNaturale
Walt Disney World
Wet Dog Glass

Golnaz Armin
Senior Design Director
Nike, Inc.

Jeremy Levitt
Furniture and Lighting Designer
Part and Labor Design NYC

Steven McShane
Co-Founder
Fortress Studios

Nabeela Najjar
Costume & Fashion Designer
Seamstressbee

Israel A. Nordin
Co-Owner
Detroit Design Ctr.

Jeanette Puig-Pey
Global Design Manager, Color & Materials | Advanced R&D
Lear

Travis Taylor
Lead Carpenter
Virtuoso Design+Build

Joshua Wojick
Crafts Programs and Trades Manager
The Henry Ford
What’s Happening at CCS

Associate Professor Kim Harty and alumna April Wagner (CR ‘96) talk to WXYZ about the upcoming Glass Art Society Conference being held at CCS

Student Exhibition Leads Fibers Major to Storied Career with General Motors

Fiber & Textiles student Maddie Duda featured in Metal Magazine
