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Rebecca Black

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I am a junior in college studying Art and Design with a concentration of Metalsmithing and sculpture. My goal is to eventually own my own shop and sell/ make my own jewelry, swords and knifes, and other things out of metal

Education

Northern Michigan University

Bachelor's degree program
2022 - 2026
  • Majors:
    • Design and Applied Arts
  • Not planning to go to medical school
  • Career

    • Dream career field:

      Luxury Goods & Jewelry

    • Dream career goals:

      Sports

      Cheerleading

      Junior Varsity
      2012 – 20131 year

      Awards

      • 1st place pom
      • 2nd place cheerleading

      Cross-Country Running

      Club
      2010 – 20144 years

      Awards

      • girls on the run 5k
      • girls on the run 5k
      • girls on the run 5k

      Soccer

      Club
      2007 – 20169 years

      Awards

      • Jaguar invintational 2013 champions
      • HCSC soccer saturday 2014
      • Hamburg Inventational 2013 champions
      • season champions 2016

      Soccer

      Varsity
      2017 – 20214 years

      Awards

      • SEC white 2021 champions

      Swimming

      Varsity
      2017 – 20214 years

      Awards

      • Pirate of the year award
      • freshman sophomore invitational

      Archery

      Club
      2016 – 20215 years

      Awards

      • 3rd place for compund bare bow

      Bowling

      Varsity
      2020 – 20211 year

      Arts

      • Northern Michigan university

        Drawing
        2023 – 2023
      • Northern Michigan university

        Graphic Art
        2024 – 2024
      • Northern Michigan university

        Photography
        2024 – 2024
      • Northern Michigan university

        Metalwork
        2024 – 2024
      • Northern Michigan university

        Jewelry
        2023 – 2024

      Public services

      • Volunteering

        Church — Arts and crafts, help make snacks, and group leader each thing listed represents a different year
        2017 – 2019
      • Volunteering

        Toledo Zoo — ZooTeen
        2017 – 2019

      Future Interests

      Volunteering

      Philanthropy

      KIL N.Y.C. Scholarship for the Jewelry Arts
      Hello my name is Rebecca Black and I will be a junior at northern michigan university. I am a Art and Design student with the concentration of metalsmithing and sculpture. My hopes are to one day have my own shop and sell jewelry, blades, and other metalwork. I first started working with metal in high-school, taking a jewelry art class where I learned the basics of jewelry making like cutting out the metal and different type of connections. From this I realized this is what I seriously enjoyed doing and knew I wanted to go into a career working with metal. I did temporary attend a community College for welding and was an A/ B student. I really enjoyed welding, but was much more fond of the idea of the artist aspect of metal working, I wanted to learn more techniques and metal arts. Which is what lead to my transfer to Northern Michigan university to study metalsmithing. So far I have taken a basic jewelry class and a blacksmithing class, in the fall I will be learning sheet metal forming. I seriously enjoy learning different techniques and forms of metal working, I'm looking forward to learning more in the coming years. I know my GPA doesn't meet the requirement, but its due to an unfortunate event I delt with my freshmen year in college that was traumatic. Though with my GPA not meeting the requirements I understand I won't be chosen. I was just excited to finally see a scholarship for someone in my field. Being an art student tends to be frowned apon from what I grew up knowing, once I told my family what I will be studying it two of my family members my grandma and one of my sister admitted they wanted to go into art. They were both really proud of me for not letting anyone's judgment get in the way of my decision. I hope I can encourage others around me to not be scared by other's opnions and go into the field they want. Some other fact about me are that I have four sisters, I am the second to youngest. I have done a lot of volunteering between my church, being a ZooTeen at the Toledo Zoo in ohio, and more. I choose northern for college not only for my program, but the schools placement being surrounded by nature, we are constantly visted by wildlife like fox, deer, porcupine, birds, and more. Growing up I was involved in a lot of sports, in highschool I was a four sport athlete the sports I participated in were varsity swim, varsity soccer, varsity/club archery, and varsity bowling. Other things I participated in during highschool were three after school clubs (dungeons and dragons, quiz bowl, and Drama) and marching band. Lastly one of my favorite fun facts about me is that I taught myself how to make chainmail and have made some things like crop-tops, bracelets , and neck pieces.