Liz Leupold is a contemporary jeweler in her final year as a SUNY New Paltz Metal BFA candidate. Liz investigates the relationship metal has with the human form as well as ideas of the metaphysical existence. She challenges preconceived notions of jewelry through format, process, and wearability. Viewing jewelry as a metaphor of connection, where metal and wearer become synchronous, she creates physical representations of the interconnectivity between everything in the cosmos.

SUNY New Paltz proudly hosts the work of Liz Leupold at NYCJW in their exhibition denizen.

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The Metal program at SUNY New Paltz is an active area of study that engages a wide variety of ideas, objects, images, and modes of making. The program is directed by Professor Myra Mimlitsch-Gray, includes Michael Gayk and Lynn Batchelder as prominent faculty, and Jamie Bennett as Professor Emeritus. The rigorous curriculum provides opportunities to explore the technical, aesthetic, and conceptual aspects of contemporary jewelry and metalsmithing in a state-of-the-art facility with teachers who are actively engaged artists and who exhibit and lecture internationally. SUNY New Paltz is among the largest graduate metal programs in the country and has earned the distinction of being the #1-ranked public university metal program.