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Jamie Obermeier
Jamie Obermeier, M.F.A.
Title:
Associate Professor, Head of the Division of Studio Art
Division:
Studio Art
Office Location:
Jack Arends Building
418
Office Phone:
815-753-7701
Office Fax:
815-753-7701
Email:
obermeier@niu.edu
Educational Background
M.F.A., Silversmithing and Jewelry Design, Indiana University
B.F.A., Metals and Jewelry Design, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania
Current Research
Digital fabrication technology (3d printing / modeling, machining) utilizing both traditional and non-traditional materials
Outsourced industrial processes in creative practice
Casting methods and materials in ancient history
Non-Western metalworking processes
Courses Taught
ARTS 351 Beginning Metalwork, Jewelry Design, and Digital Fabrication
ARTS 450 Digital Fabrication Workshop
ARTS 451 Advanced Metalwork, Jewelry Design, and Digital Fabrication
ARTS 452 Advanced Research in Metalwork, Jewelry Design, and Digital Fabrication
ARTS 453 Digital Fabrication Workshop II
ARTS 454 Advanced Research in Digital Fabrication
ARTS 551 Beginning Metalwork, Jewelry Design, and Digital Fabrication
ARTS 650 Graduate Printmaking Workshop Topics course
ARTS 651 Metalwork, Jewelry Design, and Digital Fabrication
ARTS 653 Digital Fabrication Workshop II
ARTS 654 Advanced Research in Metalwork, Jewelry Design, and Digital Fabrication
Selected Recent Exhibitions
Schmuck:
The International Exhibition of Artistic Jewellery
, Internationale Handwerksmesse, Messegelände, Munich, Germany
, 2026
The Jewelry Code, The National Museum of Kazakhstan, Astana, Kazakhstan, 2025
Turning Point, Gdansk Jewellery Week,
Centrum Exhibition Center,
Gdansk, Poland, 2025
Materials Hard and Soft, Patterson-Appleton Arts Center, Denton, Texas, 2024
Still Processing, NYC Jewelry Week, Steuben Gallery, Pratt Institute, New York, New York, 2023
CraftForms 2023, Davenport Gallery, Wayne Art Center, Wayne, Pennsylvania, 2023
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