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Branch Brooch

2022

Bronze, druzy quartz, steel, silver

3.75" x 1.5" x 0.75"

About the Artist

Robert is from a small town in southern Illinois nestled in the bluffs of the Mississippi River. He received his BFA in metalsmithing and photography from Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville and his MFA in metalsmithing from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania. In the past few years he has been a part of several national and international exhibitions. Most currently, he was an artist-in-residence at Craft Alliance in St. Louis, Mo and remains there as a teacher. He currently resides in St. Louis, MO where he maintains a studio.

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Spider

2025

This creature is forged and welded steel.

H: 9" x W: 8" x D: 5.5"

Weight: 1 lb

About the Artist

Leah Aripotch is a metal sculptor based in Oakland, California. She was born is 1987 and raised in Montauk, New York. She spent her childhood in swamps catching bugs and reptiles, surrounded by the lore of the abandoned air force base in her childhood backyard. She studied painting at SCAD for three years before transferring and receiving her BFA in sculpture from Academy of Art University. Upon graduating, she began a paid apprenticeship in a commercial fabrication shop under her mentor, Brian Martin. Three years later, she opened her own metal shop where she has since focused exclusively on making art. Her work has gone down the runway at Mercedes Benz Fashion Week, featured in various magazines and publications, and displayed in museums across the country, including the Museum of Metal, the Fuller Craft Museum, Haggin Museum, and the DeYoung. A forever student of the metal arts, she continues to train and learn under masters of the craft and is constantly pursuing the equipment and knowledge necessary to push the limits of what can be hand built in steel. She lives in Oakland with her husband and two cats and builds monsters and aliens out of her metal shop.

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Night Tide

2025

Lapis and mystic moonstone set in textured, oxidized sterling silver. A sculptural double-stone ring balancing deep blue with luminous, shifting light.

Ring size: 7.75

The open design allows for slight adjustability.

About the Artist

Dorothy Northern is a contemporary metalsmith and jewelry artist whose work explores the tension between refinement and erosion, pairing richly textured silver with distinctive gemstones. Her sculptural jewelry draws from ancient forms, natural surfaces, and a quiet sense of ritual, creating pieces that feel both elemental and distinctly modern.

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Nest Candle Holder Set #1

2 sets of 3 pieces are available. The other set is item #266.

Each set contains one of each size: 18" tall, 16" tall, and 14" tall. All have a 4" x 4" top piece.

About the Artist

"I use traditional forging techniques and joinery to create contemporary work. I start with raw metal and heat it in the forge. I then use a pneumatic power hammer and hand hammers at the anvil to shape and bend the material. I have made the majority of my tooling, I use different tool steels for hot cutting chisels, slits, drifts, punches and hammers. The style I have developed is in part inspired by the use of industrial forging tools used in an unconventional manner to shape and push the metal gaining length, width and texture at the same time. I focus on keeping clean lines and forging every part of each piece to shape the metal hot. The joinery becomes an aesthetic part of the piece, a focal point, it represents hard honest work that is thought of to be sophisticated in its simplicity.

This work represents an idea of focusing on forms and line, texture and functionality. Ideas come from many places including the natural world I see every day outside the studio in south west Wisconsin's "driftless area", industrial blacksmithing techniques from the early years of the Industrial revolution. The joinery is out front to be seen rather then trying to hide it, it becomes an aesthetic part of each piece. The fronts of all the cabinet pieces have a story to tell, whether it's an abstract representation of our agricultural area or a connection to historical steel industry."

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Dopamine Smiley Earrings

2026

Steel, enamel, Mica powder, sterling silver

"These earrings are a sibling pair to some that I made at Penland in the Spring. I learned screen printing on enamel with Tanya Crane. The original stencil was created from an image of potato smilies, like you would get in elementary school lunches."

2.5" x 1.5"

About the Artist

MYRIAM SAAVEDRA (she/her/hers) is a Latinx maker, metalsmith, and community builder based in Central Arkansas. Her work combines industrial materials, geometric shapes, and painterly mark-making into unique wearables that channel the sparkle from queer nightlife's electric energy. Life is a party and you should adorn yourself accordingly. Myriam received her BFA in Applied Design from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and is an alumni of the Donaghey Scholars Program. She is currently Metals Department Chair for the Windgate Art School at the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts. She can also be discovered online as Myriad of Mischief across the socialmediasphere.

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Shaved Box

2025

Made from patinated steel and silicon bronze, this double-walled box was made through scoring and bending a piece of sheet steel, and welding the seams together. The seams were then ground, and a swivel lid was attached.

4" x 4" x 4"

About the Artist

Sophie is a metalworker and furniture maker currently based in Reading, PA. She makes classic furniture designs recreated out of steel to give voice to women in both the woodworking and metal fields, and she utilizes steel in the making of her work to explicitly expand upon the materials that are considered to be part of the fine furniture making field.

Sophie received her MFA in Furniture Design and Woodworking from San Diego State University, and BFA in Sculpture and Drawing from SUNY Purchase College. She has exhibited her work across the country, including Blue Spiral 1 Gallery (NC), the Center for Art in Wood (PA), and the Metal Museum (TN), and has been fortunate to receive several grants, fellowships, and residencies to help advance her career, including the John D. Mineck Fellowship in 2022. Sophie currently teaches at Kutztown University, and has taught workshops at A Workshop of Our Own, Penland School of Craft, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, the Appalachian Center for Craft, and Haystack Mountain School of Crafts.

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Rapskullion

Pendant: 1.75" x 2.5", up to 26" chain

About the Artist

"Hi, we're Andrea and Bryan, and we run AMUCK! We believe jewelry should be more than just an accessory-it should be a statement, a piece of art that tells a story. We specialize in creating bold, vibrant jewelry by blending unconventional materials with precious metals and gemstones. From repurposed street signs to vintage license plates, we take discarded treasures and transform them into something beautiful and unique.

Each piece is designed and crafted in our Kansas City, Missouri home and studio. Whether it's a necklace, bracelet, or pair of earrings, you will be wearing a pop of personality and a conversation starter!"

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Wrapped Sphere

2001

Compressed ball of coated copper wire enclosed in two parcels of the same material.

7" x 5" x 6.5"

About the Artist

Nancy Koenigsberg is a fiber artist whose woven wire sculptures are simultaneously delicate and industrial, employing traditional fiber techniques with non-conventional materials that are at once airy and solid. Her works are in the permanent collection of the Museum of Art and Design, the Textile Museum in Washington D.C., the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Cleveland Museum of Art, among many others.

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Silver Earrings

Sterling silver, raw diamond beads

1.5" long

About the Artist

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Guitarist

2026

Forged steel figure playing a guitar on an upset square base with a rust-pitted texture.

"This piece is part of my musician series. Using power hammer isolations and mass manipulation, I create a simplified human form and exaggerate its posing to portray movement in the piece."

Sculpture: 15.5" x 5"

Base: 4" x 4"

About the Artist

"I grew up in the American South in Raleigh north Carolina. From a young age, I was always building things in the woods out of whatever I could get my hands on. This passion for creating was channeled in high school when I began to blacksmith in my backyard. After this, I attended the American College of the Building Arts (ABCA) in Charleston, South Carolina, with a focus on architectural blacksmithing. During my summers, I would travel to study with blacksmithing artists around the world, including internships in Detroit, Greenville, and even an internship in Italy and Austria working on sculptures with Roberto Giordiani. It was during this time that I discovered sculpture through blacksmithing. I graduated from ACBA in 2023 and moved to Chicago, where I worked on hand-forged furniture and lighting fixtures. From there, I transitioned into grad school at SIU Carbondale. My sculptural work now explores relationships through the material lens of traditional blacksmithing connection methods."

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Toxin

Copper, brass, steel, leather, powder coat

"Toxin is if from my "Biomorphic" series about the weight of grief and its impact on the body. This Piece is about the physical, mental, and spiritual struggles of living with sunlight triggered Epilepsy. The point of Toxin is to encourage others to communicate about their mental health through sharing my own journey, by physically wearing it."

Toxin Has been in the Following Exhibitions:

"Making it in art", UNT CoLab, Denton, TX (Juried by Dongyi Wu)
"Stringing it Together", Paul Voertman Gallery, Denton, TX, Group Exhibition
"Biomorphic" Cora Stafford, Denton, TX Solo Exhibition

23" x 4.5" x 5"

Weight: less than 1 lb

About the Artist

"I am an artist based in Fort Worth, TX and a recent graduate from University of North Texas. I create jewelry and wearable sculptures. The bulk of my work is centered around the before, during and after of processing grief.

My work is rooted in the structure of the human body, not in the way we commonly see it, but through the lens of microscopic biology. As a metalsmith, I'm drawn to the intricacies of histology: the patterns and rhythms of cells and tissues that are often invisible to the eye, but essential to life. I use these cellular structures as visual metaphors to process emotional experiences, particularly grief."

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Peter Pan Double Pearly Chain

2026

This necklace is a modern take on the classic pearl necklace. Made with one strand of silver freshwater pearls and one strand of white freshwater pearls that loop together creating a hand knotted freshwater pearl necklace can be worn so many ways! The strands can be positioned with either side being longer than the other or both the same length offering a variety of styles all in one necklace. This necklace was hand crafted using the traditional pearl knotting techniques connected to a custom sterling silver clasp fabricated by independent jewelry designer Sarah Holden in her Chicago contemporary artist studio. This handmade sterling silver clasp perfectly holds your new pearls together so they catch the eyes of everyone that walks by.

6mm silver and white freshwater pearls, custom hand fabricated sterling silver clasp measures 0.25 x 1", necklace measures 20" long

About the Artist

"Hi! I'm Sarah. I am a contemporary studio jeweler and sculptor.

I received my Master of Fine Arts with a focus in Jewelry and Metalsmithing from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, and my Bachelor of Fine Arts in Crafts Materials Studies and Sculpture from Virginia Commonwealth University.

My limited production jewelry and sculpture can be found in galleries across America. I live in Chicago where I work as a studio artist, metals instructor and mom.

My work investigates how female identity is constructed and performed through the body.

The female body is site and content for my work and yields series in sculpture, drawing and limited-production jewelry. I source and celebrate imagery and histories of women that rebel against cultural expectation of the submissive female. Working inside this contested space I use traditional and non-traditional craft techniques to challenge these expectations by creating a role reversal through material."

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A brush with naked reality can provide a new handle on life

Salvaged brush bristles with a cherry wood handle carved by Tom and a mounting bracket forged by Tom

11.5" x 4" x 1.5"

About the Artist

Tom Latane constructed a primitive forge in 1972, in his parent's backyard, after watching the blacksmiths at Colonial Williamsburg. Following high school graduation in 1973, he went to work at home producing forged iron and hewn wood products for art fairs and consignment shops. Tom attended three semesters of metalsmithing and jewelry classes at Towson State University in the late 1970's. Since 1983 Tom and his wife Catherine (Kitty), have operated a shop in Pepin, Wisconsin repairing antiques and producing their own work incorporating historic design motifs from various traditions. He has demonstrated at numerous ABANA conferences as a founding member of the Patient Order of Meticulous Metalsmiths and taught at six different craft schools. From the beginning, Tom has been more impressed by the work blacksmiths of the past were able to produce with skill and simple hand tools, than by the potential of modern technology.

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Silver Earrings

About the Artist

Rachelle Thiewes is an artist based in the Chihuahuan desert of West Texas, where she creates jewelry that is designed to engage and challenge the wearer, making them an active participant, an initiator of sounds and body rhythms. Light, movement, sound, order and chaos are integral elements of her work.

Thiewes's jewelry is in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The National Museums of Scotland, Victoria & Albert Museum, Metal Museum, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Cooper Hewitt, Yale University Art Gallery, and the Museum of Arts & Design, among others. Her work has been featured in numerous publications including Inspired Jewelry: From the Museum of Arts and Design, Craft for a Modern World, Jewellery in Europe and America: New Times New Thinking, One of a Kind: American Art Jewelry, American Craft and Metalsmith

In 2009, Thiewes was named Texas Master by the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft and the Stanlee & Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual Arts honored her with the Access & Excellence in the Arts Award in 2014. In 2023 the Metal Museum awarded her the title Master Metalsmith. Thiewes is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artist Fellowship, the University of Texas Regents Outstanding Award for Teaching, and Distinguished Achievement Awards for Research and Teaching at the University of Texas El Paso where she is Professor Emerita in the Department of Art.

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Raven on Pine Snag

2026

Considered the most intelligent birds, ravens display high learning ability and use of logic for solving problems and have even been taught to count.

Oxidized steel botanical.

Ready to hang indoors or out.

Each panel is signed by the artist and varies slightly due to the natural oxidized finish which will evolve over time.

15.5 x 6", 1/16" steel (16ga)

About the Artist

Since establishing the studio in 2010, Daniel Moore has developed a multidisciplinary practice centered on steel fabrication, sculptural design, and the transformation of industrial materials into work that responds to landscape, architecture, and public space.

Moore grew up in Iowa City, Iowa, and attended the University of Iowa, where he earned a BFA in Graphic Design and Photography. His education continues to inform his approach to sculpture. Graphic design contributes an emphasis on composition, proportion, line, and visual communication, while photography has shaped his sensitivity to light, framing, perspective, and the relationship between an artwork and its surroundings. His early experience working in graphic design ultimately led him toward a more physical form of making after being downsized from a corporate design position.

The landscapes of the American Southwest have become an important source of inspiration. After moving to Arizona, Moore developed a sustained interest in the region's botanical forms, geological structures, intense sunlight, and expansive desert environments. Experiences hiking, backpacking, and mountain biking throughout Arizona have provided a direct and physical understanding of the landscape that informs both his imagery and his approach to site-specific work.

In recent years, Moore has increasingly focused on public art, completing 16 public art projects over the past decade. His work ranges from intimate architectural panels to large-scale sculptures and site-specific installations. His work has also been commissioned and developed for civic, educational, recreational, and institutional environments.

At the core of Moore's practice is a belief that art can make people look more closely at the places they inhabit. Whether drawing from the structure of a desert plant, the mechanics of a scientific object, or the changing qualities of light and shadow, his work seeks to transform familiar materials and ideas into experiences that encourage observation, curiosity, and connection.

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Retouched #6

2017

Reticulation silver 80/20, 3D printed plastic, 23K red gold leaf, sterling silver, stainless steel

"This brooch is a part of my Retouched series. This series includes pieces shaped like ornate mirror frames and references our obsessions with "ideal beauty" or beauty standards. Retouched #6 has a piece of reticulated silver where the mirror should be. The reticulated silver mimics the wrinkles of skin."

4 ½" x 2 ½" x ¾"

About the Artist

Jill Baker Gower is an artist, jeweler, metalsmith, and educator who resides near Chicago, IL. She holds a BS in art education from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an MFA in Metals from Arizona State University. She has exhibited her jewelry and sculpture in numerous exhibitions nationwide. In 2019, she had a solo exhibition at the Metal Museum in Memphis, TN. Her work has been published in Metalsmith magazine, the book CAST, Little Dreams in Glass and Metal: Enameling in America 1920 to the Present. Jill's work is in the permanent collections of The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, the Metal Museum, Memphis, TN, The Enamel Arts Foundation, Los Angeles, CA, and Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN.

Jill is a former resident artist of Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in Gatlinburg, TN. From 2007 to 2018, she was an Associate Professor of Art - Jewelry/Metals at Rowan University in Glassboro, NJ. She served on the Board of Directors for the Society of North American Goldsmiths (SNAG) from 2016 to 2019. She is currently an Associate Professor of Art - Jewelry/Metals at the College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, IL.

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Twist

1997

Red cube in twisted coated copper wire

6" x 6" x 6"

About the Artist

Nancy Koenigsberg is a fiber artist whose woven wire sculptures are simultaneously delicate and industrial, employing traditional fiber techniques with non-conventional materials that are at once airy and solid. Her works are in the permanent collection of the Museum of Art and Design, the Textile Museum in Washington D.C., the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Cleveland Museum of Art, among many others.

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Sprinkles

2024

Hammer-formed copper, liquid porcelain enamel colored with Mason stains, Carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC), hand-spun casein (milk protein) fiber

"This artwork is a creative detour born from a complex technical exploration.

Sometimes a process inspires a piece. I have been playing around with liquid enamel mixed with CMC to create extruded elements that remind me of the puff-paint that was really popular for crafts when I was little. The multicolored hues of the smaller pieces of extruded enamel reminded me of sprinkles. Also, I love ice cream. Lastly, I has some casein fiber to hand that I was able to use a drop-spindle with and spin into the most appropriate necklace for this pendant."

20" x 2.75" x 1.25"

About the Artist

Ana M. Lopez is a metalsmith, educator and decorative arts scholar. Her creative work conflates references from the decorative and industrial arts to address our increasingly complex relationship to air conditioning. This is both a side-effect of living in Texas and the result of a lifelong vent fetish. Her creative work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is featured in the art appreciation textbook, Art for Everyone. In 2023 and 2025 she participated in two-person exhibitions at the Metal Museum in Memphis, Tennessee, and Moudy Gallery at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Metal Museum, Fuller Craft Museum, and the Houston International Airport, among others.
Ana is the author of the reference book, Metalworking Through History: An Encyclopedia, published by Greenwood Press, as well as numerous other scholarly articles. Lopez holds an MFA in Metalsmithing from the Cranbrook Academy of Art and an MA in the History of American Decorative Arts from The Smithsonian Associates and Parsons School of Design. She is currently Professor of Metalsmithing & Jewelry at the University of North Texas and lives with her family in Fort Worth, Texas.

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Striped Bass Trinket Dish

2026

Waterslide Decal on Blue Transparent enameled copper hand formed dish. Inspired by Wildlife stamps featuring a Striped Bass.

3.75" x 2.5"

About the Artist

Wyatt NP is a metalsmith and enamelist living and working out of Maine. He is currently the Fine Metals Studio Technician at Maine College of Art and Design managing their studio operations and equipment repair. He previously worked at Peters Valley School of Craft managing their Fine Metals Studio 2023-2024 and as an assistant 2022. He holds a BFA in Metals, Jewelry, CAD CAM Design from Tyler School of Art and Architecture.

As a craftsperson, farming and agriculture provided Wyatt with a strong foundation for his artistic practice. He grew up in a small rural town working with horses from a young age while participating in FFA and 4H within his small agricultural community. He has had various agriculturally focused careers, having worked in livestock management as a farrier, while also pursuing craft focused endeavors in metals and jewelry. In his own work he primarily makes enameled belt buckles, with an appreciation for motifs around agriculture, the outdoors and fishing. He is an avid outdoorsman who loves fishing, hiking, and backpacking. When he's not in the studio you can find him fishing on one of Maine's many lakes, ponds or rivers.

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Extra Pointy Two Tone Ring

2026

Sterling silver wraparound ring with a matte black finish with 24k gilding

Ring Size: 8.5
1.75" x 1.75"

About the Artist

Dirigible Designs is the creative partnership of Blake Smith and Melanie Schlossberg, who both began metalworking as teens -- Melanie studying metalsmithing at Syracuse University, Blake learning from his father in New Mexico. They met in Texas, where Blake was managing a bronze foundry and Melanie working as an art consultant, and have been crafting together since 2015. Their work focuses on architectural silver jewelry created using traditional techniques, custom stonework, and recycled metals, with minimalist designs that emphasize asymmetry, texture, and rich finishes like 24k gilding.

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Gloriosa Lily Brooch 1

2025

The Gloriosa Lily is native to Africa and Southern Asia. This brooch shows the Gloriosa Lily mounted on a diamond-shaped textured base. It made of copper, sterling silver, enamel and 24k gold luster.

2.5" x 2.38" x 1.25"

3 ounces

About the Artist

"I fabricate my jewelry in gold-filled bi-metal, fine silver, sterling silver, copper, bronze, brass, steel and mixed media. A small amount of my work contains cast elements. I also include jewelry made with multiple processes of enameling, and some jewelry is decorated with 24K gold by the Korean keum boo method. My work tends to be botanical in nature especially featuring ginkgo leaves and other leaves found typically in my state of Arkansas. At the same time, I have recently been making work focused on abstract patterns - to stretch my brain! I have also come to think that making and selling a piece of jewelry creates a collaboration with the person who wears it because the symbolism and context of any piece of jewelry ultimately lies with that person. The wearer has the unique opportunity to choose their own meaning and I have the pleasure of contributing to that process!"

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African-Inspired Knife with Knives You Can Make Book

2020

This is one of the two dozen knives created to illustrate a range of knife making techniques for the book Knives You Can Make. A signed copy of the book is included in this donation.

Knife: O1 steel, hardwood handle, copper and sterling bolster, 8" x 1"

About the Artist

"I have been working in metal for more than fifty years, teaching in colleges and workshops. I have written over a dozen books on jewelry making and knife making, including several books about African craftspeople. This knife was inspired by a tool called a "teziguse" used by Tuareg craftspeople working with leather."

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Afterglow

2025

Aquamarine and Aventurine set in textured sterling silver with warm, luminous orange. The two stones appear to float on the wearer's hand since they are set on an open band.

Ring size: 6.25

The open design allows for slight adjustability.

About the Artist

Dorothy Northern is a contemporary metalsmith and jewelry artist whose work explores the tension between refinement and erosion, pairing richly textured silver with distinctive gemstones. Her sculptural jewelry draws from ancient forms, natural surfaces, and a quiet sense of ritual, creating pieces that feel both elemental and distinctly modern.

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Puffy Black Heart with Arrow

2026

A big puffy heart made of black steel. This hollow black steel heart is crafted by hand using the inflated steel technique. A heart shape is cut flat in sheet steel, welded together around the border, then heated to orange hot in a blacksmith forge. Once the steel heart is glowing tangerine white orange hot, it is immediately inflated using compressed air. The soft steel sheet puffs out like a balloon, shooting black scale everywhere and creating this unique puffy heart shape with a bespoke black oxide finish. This version of the steel heart sculpture also has a black bar stock heart welded right through the center. The surface of this big puffy heart is a raw, inconsistent sooty scale that is not sealed and changes over time. Each puffy heart is made similarly but each heart has a unique surface and is one of a kind. Two steel rings are welded on the back so this puffy heart easily hangs on your wall with only two screws.

Heart: 9" x 8" x 4"

Arrow: 14" long

About the Artist

"Hi! I'm Sarah. I am a contemporary studio jeweler and sculptor.

I received my Master of Fine Arts with a focus in Jewelry and Metalsmithing from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, and my Bachelor of Fine Arts in Crafts Materials Studies and Sculpture from Virginia Commonwealth University.

My limited production jewelry and sculpture can be found in galleries across America. I live in Chicago where I work as a studio artist, metals instructor and mom.

My work investigates how female identity is constructed and performed through the body.

The female body is site and content for my work and yields series in sculpture, drawing and limited-production jewelry. I source and celebrate imagery and histories of women that rebel against cultural expectation of the submissive female. Working inside this contested space I use traditional and non-traditional craft techniques to challenge these expectations by creating a role reversal through material."

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Tiger's Eye Earrings

2024

"I have always loved the Tiger's Eye stone. I incorporated one in a ring for my husband, and then I thought they would be lovely as earrings--and go with everything!"

Tiger's eye stone, sterling silver

approx. 0.75" x 0.5"

About the Artist

"I am an artist working primarily in vitreous enamel, but I also love working with stones (I never met a stone that I didn't like!) I also love to work in mixed media--metal, enamel, stones. My work is in many private collections and museums."

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Silver Brooch

Sterling silver

3" x 1.5"

About the Artist

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"Rung" Earrings

2026

Hand fabricated sterling silver earrings with faceted blue Kyanite

3 1/4" x 1"

About the Artist

Lisa Colby has a BFA in metalsmithing from Wayne State University and currently operates a studio in Asheville, North Carolina. She's been designing and creating metal jewelry for more than 20 years, and she teaches metalsmithing techniques around the United States. Her work is exhibited nationally and has also been featured in the books 1,000 Rings and 500 Silver Jewelry Designs.

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Branches Candle Holder Set

Set of 4 taper candle holders of varying heights: 19.5" tall, 17" tall, 14.5" tall, and 12" tall. All have a 4.5" round base.

About the Artist

"I use traditional forging techniques and joinery to create contemporary work. I start with raw metal and heat it in the forge. I then use a pneumatic power hammer and hand hammers at the anvil to shape and bend the material. I have made the majority of my tooling, I use different tool steels for hot cutting chisels, slits, drifts, punches and hammers. The style I have developed is in part inspired by the use of industrial forging tools used in an unconventional manner to shape and push the metal gaining length, width and texture at the same time. I focus on keeping clean lines and forging every part of each piece to shape the metal hot. The joinery becomes an aesthetic part of the piece, a focal point, it represents hard honest work that is thought of to be sophisticated in its simplicity.

This work represents an idea of focusing on forms and line, texture and functionality. Ideas come from many places including the natural world I see every day outside the studio in south west Wisconsin's "driftless area", industrial blacksmithing techniques from the early years of the Industrial revolution. The joinery is out front to be seen rather then trying to hide it, it becomes an aesthetic part of each piece. The fronts of all the cabinet pieces have a story to tell, whether it's an abstract representation of our agricultural area or a connection to historical steel industry."

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Liberty Rolls

1991

"Three rolls of electrical wires in red, white and blue. It is a good representation of my work from this period and can be arranged in different configurations. An appropriate piece for the country's 250th birthday."

6" x 9" x 6" each

About the Artist

Nancy Koenigsberg is a fiber artist whose woven wire sculptures are simultaneously delicate and industrial, employing traditional fiber techniques with non-conventional materials that are at once airy and solid. Her works are in the permanent collection of the Museum of Art and Design, the Textile Museum in Washington D.C., the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Cleveland Museum of Art, among many others.

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Creamer from the Fred Fenster Cup

2026

Pewter

"I studied with Fred Fenster and Eleanor Moty at UW-Madison in the 1970s. Fred came to Purdue Fort Wayne and presented wokshops for my students several times in the 2000s. Learning from him and working with him was always a fun and delightful experience.
This pewter creamer is made from the basic cup pattern Fred used in his workshops. I simply turned it over and modified the design to add a spout, handle, and bottom."

9" x 4 1/4" x 2 3/4"

About the Artist

Robert Schroeder is currently teaching metalsmithing and drawing at the Department of Art and Design, Purdue University - Fort Wayne, Indiana. He also works as an independent curator. His career as a museum professional and curator is extensive and spans three institutions. He has taught metalsmithing, drawing, and design at the university level since 1994.

Schroeder came to the Fort Wayne Museum of Art to be a curator from the University Art Museum at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he held the position of Registrar. Prior to living in California, he was the Registrar/Collections Manager at the Madison Art Center in Madison, Wisconsin (renamed the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art in 2004.)

Schroeder attended the University of Wisconsin at Madison, earning a BS in Fine Arts. He began graduate study at Temple University's Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia and returned to UW-Madison, finishing an MFA in Metalsmithing and Sculpture.

As Curator of Exhibitions for the Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Schroeder was responsible for coordinating the Museum's exhibition program and assembling exhibitions, having worked with well known artists such as John Newman, Hollis Sigler, Mary Beth Edelson, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Hung Liu, Nick Cave, William Morris and Dale Chihuly. Along with giving gallery tours and planning exhibition-related programs and interpretive materials for exhibitions he has organized and traveled to museums nationally, he has lectured extensively on various topics of both historical and contemporary art subjects.

Leaving the museum field in 2002 to pursue making and exhibiting his own artworks, Schroeder has taught metalsmithing, drawing, and design as an Adjunct University Professor, and has also acted as an Independent Curator.

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Silver & Copper Forged Earrings

2026

"These earrings come from my "plant like" series of jewels using forged fine silver, copper, and sometimes 22k with sterling wires.

Looking back at the 20th century modernists but with a 21st century flair."

1.75" x 1.75" x 0.25" on wires

About the Artist

"I consider myself a three dimensional animator. My goal is to use the finest material both new and old to create functional and non-functional curiosities. I look to the work of old drawing from the Arts and Crafts movement, Folk Art, Modernism and the beginnings of the American Studio Movement and its contemporaries all around the globe. The finished pieces look as though they may be old but are curiously 21st Century. I search in unobvious places for materials such as antler, recycled copper (including existing patina), scraps of various woods (exotic and not so), plus anything else in which I notice a certain "richness" - to include in my work. Recycled materials are more or less a constant. I also use traditional, commercially available materials such as sterling, fine silver, copper, brass, bronze, and high carat gold, among others."
- David Jones

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Small Blue Bowl

Aluminum and powder coating

8"

About the Artist

Rachel Suzanne Smith is an artist, metalsmith, and educator. She received her undergraduate degree at Miami University in Art Education with minors in 3D Media Studies (jewelry/metals) and Spanish. She received her MFA in Crafts (Jewelry Metals Enameling) at Kent State University in 2015. Smith taught Jewelry/Metals, CAD for Jewelry, and Makerspace Exploration/Digital Fabrication courses at Kent State between 2015 and 2020. Smith now dedicates her career to growing, supporting, and managing academic makerspaces. Currently, as the Fabrication Manager at Sears think[box], Smith works to uphold a safe and accessible shop environment that is free and open to everyone.

As a practicing artist, Smith maintains a studio practice in North East Ohio. She creates works to exhibit in addition to a small number of limited production works that can be found at Ombre Gallery for sale. Smith is active in the craft and jewelry community, and currently serves as Board President of the Ohio Designer Craftsmen and the Ohio Craft Museum. In addition to her personal studio practice, Smith maintains a studio partnership with NE Ohio artist Jennifer Ramirez.

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Medium Blue Bowl

Aluminum and powder coating

13"

About the Artist

Rachel Suzanne Smith is an artist, metalsmith, and educator. She received her undergraduate degree at Miami University in Art Education with minors in 3D Media Studies (jewelry/metals) and Spanish. She received her MFA in Crafts (Jewelry Metals Enameling) at Kent State University in 2015. Smith taught Jewelry/Metals, CAD for Jewelry, and Makerspace Exploration/Digital Fabrication courses at Kent State between 2015 and 2020. Smith now dedicates her career to growing, supporting, and managing academic makerspaces. Currently, as the Fabrication Manager at Sears think[box], Smith works to uphold a safe and accessible shop environment that is free and open to everyone.

As a practicing artist, Smith maintains a studio practice in North East Ohio. She creates works to exhibit in addition to a small number of limited production works that can be found at Ombre Gallery for sale. Smith is active in the craft and jewelry community, and currently serves as Board President of the Ohio Designer Craftsmen and the Ohio Craft Museum. In addition to her personal studio practice, Smith maintains a studio partnership with NE Ohio artist Jennifer Ramirez.

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Large Blue Bowl

Aluminum and powder coating

15.5"

About the Artist

Rachel Suzanne Smith is an artist, metalsmith, and educator. She received her undergraduate degree at Miami University in Art Education with minors in 3D Media Studies (jewelry/metals) and Spanish. She received her MFA in Crafts (Jewelry Metals Enameling) at Kent State University in 2015. Smith taught Jewelry/Metals, CAD for Jewelry, and Makerspace Exploration/Digital Fabrication courses at Kent State between 2015 and 2020. Smith now dedicates her career to growing, supporting, and managing academic makerspaces. Currently, as the Fabrication Manager at Sears think[box], Smith works to uphold a safe and accessible shop environment that is free and open to everyone.

As a practicing artist, Smith maintains a studio practice in North East Ohio. She creates works to exhibit in addition to a small number of limited production works that can be found at Ombre Gallery for sale. Smith is active in the craft and jewelry community, and currently serves as Board President of the Ohio Designer Craftsmen and the Ohio Craft Museum. In addition to her personal studio practice, Smith maintains a studio partnership with NE Ohio artist Jennifer Ramirez.

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Confetti Half Moon Swing Loops

2026

"'Half Moon Swing Loop Stud Dangle' earrings are created with a custom 'confetti' pattern etched in sterling silver with rainbow patina. The half moons are articulated with 18k gold tubings and hinges, hand forged sterling silver loops with 14k gold posts."

37 mm long x 27 mm wide x 2 mm deep

About the Artist

Barbara McFadyen is a metalsmith and enamelist who has been designing jewelry in gold, silver, and enamel for nearly five decades. Barbara received her MFA in Metal Design from East Carolina University and BA from Eckerd College. Her award-winning work is nationally recognized through exhibitions with the American Crafts Council, the Smithsonian Institution, SNAG, and the Enamelist Society, and numerous gallery exhibitions, such as the Craft Council of British Columbia's Excellence in Metal Technique. Barbara's work is found in the collections of The Enamel Arts Foundation, the Mint Museum, the Arkansas Museum of Fine Art, the Crocker Museum, and Yale University Art Gallery.

In addition to her love of metalwork and enameling, Barbara finds inspiration through teaching others, and has led workshops at fine craft schools throughout the US, including Penland, Arrowmont, Haystack, and John Campbell, as well as teaching in Japan and Italy. Currently, Barbara serves on the Board of Directors for The Enamelist Society. She maintains her studio practice in Chapel Hill, NC. on a farm where she enjoys the practice of Beekeeping and raising chickens with her husband Douglass Phillips.

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Mood Ring #2

2026

Cast iron, sterling silver, 14k gold

Ring Size: 8
1" x 1"

About the Artist

Carol is a private jeweler and custom jewelry designer based in Memphis, Tennessee, working with clients locally and across the globe. Her designs have appeared in British Vogue, exhibited at Milan Jewelry Week's Artistar Jewels, and are collected across the U.S. and Europe.

Her training at the New Approach School for Jewelers and studies in decorative arts and jewelry in Italy inform her approach-merging traditional craftsmanship with a contemporary, edgy aesthetic. With a background in graphic design and metalsmithing, Carol creates jewelry that is as meaningful as it is wearable.

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Fractured Sleeve

2022

Cast and fabricated pewter

In creating the Facture/Fracture series, Mimlitsch-Gray poured plaster slabs and
attempted to form them, knowing that the material would break; uncertainty guided
her design methods. She made moulds and pewter casts of the plaster exploration, capturing qualities of the sketch and action in metal.

4.6" x 3" x 2"

About the Artist

Myra Mimlitsch-Gray (b. 1962) explores craft as subject and object, engaging the field's history and methods to interpret utility and form. Her studio practice is at times speculative, theoretical, and in conversation with pedagogical concerns. She conceptualizes material conditions to construct fictions and portraits. Facture is explored as an idea and then constructed as an image; this research is reflected in the objects she generates.

Mimlitsch-Gray received her MFA in Metalsmithing from Cranbrook Academy of Art. An American Craft Council Fellow, The Metal Museum honored Mimlitsch-Gray as Master Metalsmith in 2014 and presented her solo exhibition, Staging Form. She was named Master of the Medium by the James Renwick Alliance. As professor she received two Chancellor's Awards from the State University of New York: Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities, and Excellence in Teaching. She has been awarded individual artist fellowships by the United States Artists Foundation, the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Mimlitsch-Gray's work is widely exhibited and included in public collections such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Museums of Scotland, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Victoria and Albert Museum. She maintains a studio in the Hudson Valley of New York.

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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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Techno-Constructivist Ring

2024

Silver, micarta, black onyx

"Micarta is a cellulose based plastic in the same category as Bakelite, which was invented here in the US by chemist Leo Baekeland from Belgium in 1907. Westinghouse used that same formulae to make micarta as the first substrate for printed circuit boards in the 1940's.

Later, in the 1950's it was adopted by the American flatware industry as a substitute for Ivory utensil handles, and later still, by the American artisanal knife making cohort for the same purpose. But, eventually, complaints arose around this material in the 1980s because it oxidized and turned a darker color. So, it was reformulated so that it did not age.

The new version was just not the same as that I had been using, so at this point I went to every knife making supply house in the country and bought up all of the remaining older version of the material I could find, and it was a lot! Micarta became a proprietary material for me. It carves beautifully, and machines spectacularly. I believe it adds an historical context to the work. And it still ages beautifully."

Ring Size: 7.5
1.5" x 1.5"

Note: Ring is signed and sizable.

About the Artist

Thomas Mann has been professional self-employed artist for 57 years. He describes himself as a sculptor working in the medium of jewelry where he is best known for his Techno-Romantic Jewelry Objects™.He has been an active participant in the contemporary American craft movement for the past fifty-two years as an artist, gallery owner, author, lecturer, and workshop teacher.

Over the past 10 years, he has moved away from his signature Techno-Romantic design system towards a new jewelry vocabulary he calls Techno-Natura™ He has also begun a re-entry into painting which he studied at university as a Performing Arts major with a focus on set design and lighting. He recently had his first solo painting show with Sullivan Gallery in New Orleans.

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Link Series

2026

Link is a series of wearable works that explores the ancient jewelry making technique of loop-in-loop chain making. While honoring historical foundations, this series departs from traditional uniformity by varying loop sizes to establish a dynamic, elegant visual rhythm. This body of work utilizes classical chain structures as a springboard for contemporary jewelry design, reframing an ancient craft through a modern lens.

Each earring - 4" long x 1.25" wide x 1.25" deep

About the Artist

Sun Kyoung Kim was born and raised in Seoul, South Korea, and currently resides in Carbondale, Illinois. Kim is an Associate Professor at Southern Illinois University, where she has been teaching metalsmithing and jewelry making since 2008. She received both a BFA and an MFA in metals from Sungshin Women's University in Seoul, South Korea, and her second MFA in metals from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has taught summer workshops at Penland School of Crafts and Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts. She exhibited in numerous group exhibitions nationally and internationally and has had four solo exhibitions in four different states.

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In the blink of an eye

2026

"In Zen Buddhism, the cicada is a symbol of impermanence. This 5 foot tall, half inch thick hand cut cicada wing is a memorial Sculpture for my good friend Neena Wang, who passed away a year ago. I taught her Metal fabrication three years ago in my studio and we worked together on a couple of projects. She loved the look of hand cut plasma edges, and I made this piece in collaboration with her spirt. It is my hope that this Sculpture honors her immense talent and her short time on this earth."

Wing: 5'7" x 0.5"

Base: 30" diameter

About the Artist

"I have both my bachelors and masters degree in Metal Sculpture. I received my masters right here at the University of Memphis under Greely Myatt. I have been volunteering at the metal museum since 2006. I am a working artist, and have had a successful sculpture studio in New Chicago for the last eight years. I have six permanent sculptures at the Memphis botanical garden, and many other public sculptures around the city. I am a figurative Sculptor that loves to make indestructible bulletproof fine art."

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Silk Earrings

2026

Silk Dupioni, Miyuki Beads, Preciosa Crystal Beads, Jeweler's Brass, Fine Silver

2.5" x 1.5" x 0.5"

About the Artist

Jennifer Ramirez's works to be worn combine traditional metalsmithing with textile techniques. She has a BFA in Sculpture and Jewelry Metals from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an MFA in Jewelry Metals Enameling from Kent State University.

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Chasing Hammer Pin

2026

Sterling silver, walnut

20 x 50 x 8 mm

About the Artist

Sunyoung Cheong is an artist and educator born in Seoul, South Korea. She is an assistant professor of metalsmithing and jewelry at the University of Kansas, and a KU graduate (MFA 2014, BFA 2010). She incorporates digital technologies with a traditional metalsmithing practice to create her visual narratives. Her work focuses on the honeybee and beehive to address issues of identity, belonging and building a sustainable community.

Cheong has developed and curated several recent exhibitions, including "Colorful Minds: Contemporary Enamel Jewelry and Objects," Seoul, Korea, and Baltimore, Maryland; "Mothers in Craft," Seoul, Korea; and "The Missing Link," Seoul, Korea. Her work has appeared in numerous publications, including Digital Meets Handmade, SUNY Press; Jewelry and Metals Survey Vol.3, Society of North American Goldsmiths; and Exhibition in Print Vol.37 No.4, Metalsmith Magazine. In addition, she has exhibited her work nationally and internationally, including "Inner Punk," a two-person show in New York, New York and "My Universe," a solo exhibition in Seoul, Korea.

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Gingko Waltz

2026

Enameled and bare metal ginkgo leaves drift through the air, capturing a sense of movement, lightness, and whimsy. The leaves seem to dance in their own waltz. Inspired by the numerous ginkgos along my walks. Cooper, brass, enamel, leaves.

11" x 14" x 3"

5 pounds

Note: Can be hung on a wall or stand alone.

About the Artist

Lauren Estes has always been involved in the art world but has recently found her passion with jewelry making and copper art. She is fascinated with patinas and finding the right mixtures for the various colors in her rivers and maps.

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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.

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Nest Candle Holder Set #2

2 sets of 3 pieces are available. The other set is item #204.

Each set contains one of each size: 18" tall, 16" tall, and 14" tall. All have a 4" x 4" top piece.

About the Artist

"I use traditional forging techniques and joinery to create contemporary work. I start with raw metal and heat it in the forge. I then use a pneumatic power hammer and hand hammers at the anvil to shape and bend the material. I have made the majority of my tooling, I use different tool steels for hot cutting chisels, slits, drifts, punches and hammers. The style I have developed is in part inspired by the use of industrial forging tools used in an unconventional manner to shape and push the metal gaining length, width and texture at the same time. I focus on keeping clean lines and forging every part of each piece to shape the metal hot. The joinery becomes an aesthetic part of the piece, a focal point, it represents hard honest work that is thought of to be sophisticated in its simplicity.

This work represents an idea of focusing on forms and line, texture and functionality. Ideas come from many places including the natural world I see every day outside the studio in south west Wisconsin's "driftless area", industrial blacksmithing techniques from the early years of the Industrial revolution. The joinery is out front to be seen rather then trying to hide it, it becomes an aesthetic part of each piece. The fronts of all the cabinet pieces have a story to tell, whether it's an abstract representation of our agricultural area or a connection to historical steel industry."

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Dapping Block & Punch Pins

2026

Sterling silver lapel pins

Dapping Block Pin : 10 x 10 x 10 mm
Punch Pin : 20 x 5 x 5 mm

About the Artist

Sunyoung Cheong is an artist and educator born in Seoul, South Korea. She is an assistant professor of metalsmithing and jewelry at the University of Kansas, and a KU graduate (MFA 2014, BFA 2010). She incorporates digital technologies with a traditional metalsmithing practice to create her visual narratives. Her work focuses on the honeybee and beehive to address issues of identity, belonging and building a sustainable community.

Cheong has developed and curated several recent exhibitions, including "Colorful Minds: Contemporary Enamel Jewelry and Objects," Seoul, Korea, and Baltimore, Maryland; "Mothers in Craft," Seoul, Korea; and "The Missing Link," Seoul, Korea. Her work has appeared in numerous publications, including Digital Meets Handmade, SUNY Press; Jewelry and Metals Survey Vol.3, Society of North American Goldsmiths; and Exhibition in Print Vol.37 No.4, Metalsmith Magazine. In addition, she has exhibited her work nationally and internationally, including "Inner Punk," a two-person show in New York, New York and "My Universe," a solo exhibition in Seoul, Korea.

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Forged Bronze Candle Holder

4" x 3.75" x 2"

About the Artist

Michael Bondi is an artist blacksmith doing artistic architectural sculptural work in Bronze, steel, Monel, and aluminum . Bondi has been working for 43 years and was on the Board of Directors of the Museum for 21 years.

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Coiling

2026

Pewter, aluminum, steel, ethically sourced shell, recycled plastics and resin

Through casting and fabrication Phillips explores nature, memory, and place in her art practice.

6"H x 8" W x 4" D
Weight: 4 lb. 14 oz.

About the Artist

Cozette Phillips earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in Metals from the State University of New York at New Paltz and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Sculpture and Illustration from the Columbus College of Art and Design. A 2016 Metal Museum Tributaries artist, Cozette's sculptures have been exhibited nationally and internationally with sculptures held in both public and private collections. An artist, curator, educator, and arts advocate, her multidisciplinary career is shaped by a sustained commitment to her studio practice. She is a Professor of Art at Spokane Colleges and serves as the SFCC Fine Art Gallery Director, where she contributes to the development and presentation of exhibitions, arts programming, and founded the sƛ̓x̣etkʷ Artist-in-Residence Program in 2025. Her professional service includes serving on the Board for Artist Trust and as a curator for the Washington Arts Commission, further reflecting her commitment to advancing the arts through education, exhibition, and community engagement.

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MM Box

2026

Steel, wrought iron, paint

In creating the Facture/Fracture series, Mimlitsch-Gray poured plaster slabs and
attempted to form them, knowing that the material would break; uncertainty guided
her design methods. She made moulds and pewter casts of the plaster exploration, capturing qualities of the sketch and action in metal.

5" x 3 1/2" x 3 1/2"

About the Artist

Stephen Yusko's studio is located in Cleveland, OH, where he creates sculpture, furniture and vessels, using mixed materials combined with forged, machined and fabricated steel. Yusko has taught at several schools and universities, including Haystack School of Crafts (ME), Penland School of Crafts (NC), and SUNY Purchase, where he was a Windgate Artist-in-Residence; and served on the Board of Trustees for the Haystack School. He is currently on the Board of Trustees for La Caravana Escuela. Yusko has exhibited his work widely including the Metal Museum (TN) and the Ruthin Craft Centre (Wales, UK) and has received three Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Excellence Awards and a Cuyahoga County Creative Workforce Fellowship Award.