University of North Texas 
Ana M. Lopez
Studio Art
Professor, Studio Art: Metalsmithing and Jewelry
Faculty Fellow, 2023 -24 UNT Institute of the Advancement of the Arts
Art Building, Room 207
Professor
Website: Ana M. Lopez
About
Ana M. Lopez teaches metalsmithing and jewelry in the Department of Studio Art at the UNT College of Visual Arts and Design. She holds an M.F.A. in metalsmithing and jewelry from the Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, and an M.A. in the History of American Decorative Arts from Parsons School of Design, New York City, and The Smithsonian Associates, Washington, D.C.
Her creative work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. She is also the author of the reference book Metalworking Through History: An Encyclopedia, published in the Spring of 2009 by Greenwood Press.
Courses taught include beginning metalsmithing and jewelry studio, intermediate metalsmithing and Jewelry: plasticity, intermediate metalsmithing and jewelry: technology, advanced metalsmithing and jewelry studio and graduate-level metalsmithing and jewelry studio.
Expanded Biographical Information
Ana M. Lopez is a metalsmith, educator and decorative arts scholar. Her creative work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including 2018 solo shows at the Brookline Art Center in Boston, Mass., and the Delaplaine Art Center in Frederick, Maryland. She was selected for a 2019 Maker-Creator Fellowship at the Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library in Winterthur, Delaware. Ana is the author of the reference book "Metalworking Through History: An Encyclopedia," published by Greenwood Press and numerous other scholarly articles. She was a speaker at the Looking Forward: A Contemporary Blacksmithing and Metal Design Symposium at Bryn Athyn College, Athyn, Pennsylvania, in the summer of 2019. Lopez served as a juror for the Greater Denton Art Council's 2015 Materials Hard and Soft national craft exhibition and has lectured extensively on her work, including as a presenter at the 2015 East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina, Material Topics Symposium, the 2017 Society of North American Goldsmiths conference and the 2019 College Art Association Conference. Lopez served on the Fulbright Specialist Roster through December 2020.
News
May 2024: Ana M. Lopez graduates from the 2023-2024 UNT Academic Affairs Fellows Program
Spring Exhibition: "Everybody's Bolos"
July 2023: CVAD Faculty + alum exhibit at one-of-a-kind National Ornamental Metal Museum
May 2023: UNT IAA selects Ana M. Lopez as a 2023 faculty fellow