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Silver Earrings

Sterling silver, raw diamond beads

1.5" long

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Silver Brooch

Sterling silver

3" x 1.5"

About the Artist

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Fly

2026

"When I was a girl my mother taught me about birds and we watched them, named them, fed them at a feeder outside the kitchen window. She died when I was 31. I think of her always when I watch and feed the birds outside my own kitchen window. My mother's cancer was brutal and very quickly robbed her of the freedoms a healthy body allows us. This piece is for her, symbolic of death setting her body free to fly again. Fly high Mom!"

approx. 8" x 8"

About the Artist

Stephanie Savic Polk moves through multiple scales from urban installations to small, exquisite elements for the body. For over four decades, her work with handmade glass, enamels, precious metals, steel and stones has defined her as leading artist in metalsmithing techniques. The human figure is often featured in her work, whether adorning the body or for sculptural pieces. For Stephanie, explorations of the heart are expressed in material, weight, scale, and shape.

She has exhibited in shows and exhibitions across rivers and roads in the Midwest and the South where she has received numerous awards and accolades for her creativity as a Metal Artist.
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Always unique and stunning. Often one-of-a-kind. She lives in Memphis, Tennessee with husband Walter and their little red dog.

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No.6 Succulent

2026

Cast Iron, Foundry Pit Sand, Green Sand, 2 7/8" Socket

Note: This item contains green sand that may spill. Please handle with care.

"Iron pours are often large, communal, destination events. Many times artists arrive to them days in advance with their piece sculpted in wax, which must then be molded in sand, the wax melted out, and then iron poured in. There are many stages of high-intensity work in the whole process, but also many moments where there is nothing to do but wait for things to heat up, cool down, dry, etc. I often occupy myself during these moments of rest to use the melted wax being recovered from the molds to make petals, which I then build into succulents to be cast at the next pour I join. Their size grows according to opportunity, and so just as the wax remembers the lines in my palms and fingers, I remember in them all the little moments of conversation and collective making held in their time's shaping, whorling out from their centers.

This particular succulent is a bookend of sorts - it was sculpted during the quiet moments of my dear friend Andy's inaugural pour at Arkansas State University, and poured a few months later here in Memphis during the final F.I.R.E. held on the bluffs. I chose hens and chicks as the model succulent for these pieces, having great fondness for them as hardy travel companions in my life as a metal artist on the road. I cannot tell you all the beautiful memories recorded in the unfolding of these petals, nor can I communicate all the parallels I see between how a passion for foundry work blooms among those who encounter it and the patterns of growth I've observed in my time caring for these plants, but I hope that each one carries the unmistakable marks of love that make any gathered object a grateful garden bed for our wayfaring hearts' succor as we tumble our way through time."

6" x 6" x 6"

About the Artist

Jami Honey is a metal artist specializing in forged and cast iron work. Her last four years of peregrinations have found her touching ground at Touchstone Center for Craft, Sloss Furnaces, Carrie Furnaces, Center for Metal Arts, and the Metal Museum, among many others. She believes that in consideration of the tremendously extractive nature of its production, it is a duty of care we are obliged to uptake to be thoughtful about how we wield the power of metal in the world. She strives to accomplish this with works that express humanity, engender community, and promote continuity between ourselves and the world that gave us all this wild opportunity of being.