The metal design program at East Carolina University offers BFA, BFAED and MFA degrees and students work in a state of the art facility. The four metals faculty, Linda Darty, Robert Ebendorf, Tim Lazure and MiSook Hur, have diverse strengths and talents contributing to the wide variety of approaches that individual students pursue. Both traditional and non-traditional materials and techniques are encouraged with classes that include metals fabrication, casting, raising and forming, enameling, surface embellishment, electroforming, lathe work, experimental techniques and even large scale welding or smithing. With an understanding of contemporary and historical perspectives, individuality is encouraged through the development of each student’s personal philosophy and direction.
The Staff
Linda Darty, Mi-Sook Hur Robert Ebendorf, and Tim Lazure
Linda Darty has an extensive national and international exhibition record with work in the permanent collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City and The Arkansas Art Museum. She is the recipient of the North Carolina Board of Governor’s Teaching Award as well as The Lifetime Achievement Award for Research from East Carolina University and The Lifetime Achievement Award from The Enamelist Society, an international organization. In 2003, as a more organized way of providing notes to her students, Linda wrote The Art of Enameling, published by Lark books and currently used as a text in many universities.
Robert Ebendorf teaches at East Carolina University where he holds the Belk Distinguished Chair. He is known internationally for his use of unusual materials such as found objects, industrial products and paper in his work and his willingness to share his techniques and ideas with students. He is credited with helping to shape the craft movement since the 1960s. The evolution of this inventive, dedicated and prolific artist has included a Fulbright Scholarship and teaching positions at many universities. He is the former president of the Society for North American Goldsmiths. His work is widely held in museum and gallery collections, including the Renwick Gallery, Art Institute of Chicago, Metropolitan Museum, American Craft Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum and the Cooper-Hewitt Museum.
Tim Lazure is an associate professor in the Metals Design program at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina. He received his BFA at Rochester Institute of Technology and his MFA at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth. Tim shows his jewelry, silversmithing and furniture in both national and international exhibits. He has pieces in the permanent collections of the Mint Museum of Craft and Design in Charlotte, North Carolina and in the Gallery of Art and Design in Raleigh, North Carolina. Images of his work have been published in 1000 Rings, 500 Brooches, The Art of Enameling and The Craft of Silversmithing (Lark Books).
Mi-Sook Hur is an associate professor in the School of Art and Design at East Carolina University with an extensive national and international exhibition record. She is a former artist-in-residence at John Michael Kohler Arts Center and has taught workshops at Penland School of Crafts, Newark Museum and Pullen Art Center.
