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I enjoy making jewelry from repurposed materials, in this case, bottle caps. It is satisfying to reuse materials with a short initial purpose to create jewelry of enduring beauty and use.

3 x 1.25 inches

About the Artist

Marlene True is a metalsmith, obsessive collector of tin cans and other ephemera with the intent of repurposing. Sharing her enthusiasm for working with these materials Marlene enjoys teaching. As a guest artist, she has taught at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Penland School of Crafts, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Pocosin Arts School of Fine Craft and West Dean College in the UK. Making her home in Eastern North Carolina, flora and fauna found there and in her travels provides abundant inspiration for her work.

Marlene earned her MFA at East Carolina University and her BFA at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.

Her work is part of the collections of the National Ornamental Metal Museum in Memphis, TN, the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, The Racine Museum of Art in Racine Wisconsin and the Enamel Arts Foundation in Los Angelos, CA. Marlene volunteers extensively and has served on the Board of Directors for the Society of North American Goldsmiths. She continues to make jewelry and is the Executive Director of Pocosin Arts School of Fine Craft in Columbia, NC.

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This small, aluminum bust hangs on the wall with a tranquil facial expression. She is inspired by women with (breast) cancer who, despite the unexpected illness, can still find beauty & peace. This face is taken off of a full figure and is 1/4".

3" x 1.5"; less than 1lb

About the Artist

Smith is the new Metal Museum Foundry apprentice. Previously she was a resident artist at Sloss Furnaces for over three years. Smith typically make work that involves the figure, highlighting, and bringing beauty to an aspect that is generally harder to look at such as scars or deformations.

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This pendant is hand fabricated and is made of sterling silver, copper and 18k gold. A sterling silver snake chain is included.

The pendant is approximately 3/4 inches square and the chain is 18 inches long.

About the Artist

Barbara Joiner has taught clay and jewelry classes for over 35 years. She has held the position of resident artist in Jewelry and Metals at the John C. Campbell Folkschool for 25 years and is a member of the Southern Highland Craft Guild. Barbara studied clay at the University of Illinois, silversmithing at Indiana University, and holds an MFA from Southern Illinois University.

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Brass, Sterling Silver, Steel Cable, Gold filled wire.

3 3/4" L x 1/8" W X1/8" D (4 1/2" L from top of ear wire)

About the Artist

In her work, Gipson uses surface texture and patterns to create visual interest. She currently lives in Memphis and is the Director of Community Education and Engagement for the Metal Museum.

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A brooch/pendant made of sterling silver, laminated acrylic, and acrylic paint. Inspired by Craftsman windows and architectural detail.

1 x 2" x 1/4"

About the Artist

Sauer is an artist and arts educator from Western Kentucky. Her work schedule is largely inspired by architectural structure as well as the functional aspects of machinery.

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This sterling silver ring was created using the lost wax casting method. Inspiration was drawn from forms and textures in the ocean.

Ring size: 7.5

About the Artist

Neely is currently a Metalsmithing student at Wayne State University. Her work is predominantly made through casting methods and focuses on natural forms.

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Bracelet with faceted oblong & spherical amethyst stones, sea glass rondels, connected with sterling silver spirals, pewter clasp. earrings with hammered sterling design, amethyst stones. Cavanaugh likes geometric designs and amethyst myths spoke to its ability to calm the mind, so needed in our pandemic times.

Bracelet: 7 1/2 " length, 1/2" width
Earrings: 1" length, 1/4" width

About the Artist

Cavanaugh retired from clinical social worker practice after 28 years with the school mental health center. She has enjoyed charcoal drawing, landscape photography, hiking, travel, writing poetry, sewing and creating silver jewelry. Cavanaugh volunteers as a docent at the Brooks Museum of Art.

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This brooch is made of found wood, sterling silver, tube set aquamarine.

This is a two-point brooch that began as an unexpected find on a routine walk to work.

115 mm x 35 mm x 6 mm

About the Artist

Bennett is a studio jeweler living and making in Murray, Ky. Her work explores the act of preservation, an attempt to restore significance, and permanence to objects of sentiment or of life.

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Casual but cool copper earrings.

2" long; less than 1lb

About the Artist

Smith is the new Metal Museum Foundry apprentice. Previously she was a resident artist at Sloss Furnaces for over three years. Smith typically make work that involves the figure, highlighting, and bringing beauty to an aspect that is generally harder to look at such as scars or deformations.

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These earrings are hand painted with sgraffito liquid enamel on steel with gold luster accents. Sterling silver posts. Super lightweight, these will definitely make a statement without weighing you down.

2.5in long x 1.5in wide

About the Artist

Myriad of Mischief is handmade in Little Rock, Arkansas by maker/metalsmith
Myriam Saavedra. Her pieces can be described as minimal luxe with a dash of playful (occasionally provocative) joy.

She loves to combine her love of neutrals, geometric design, alternative materials, and that sparkle from queer nightlife into her everyday wearables. Like RuPaul said, 'We're all born naked and the rest is drag.'

Myriam graduated from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock with her BFA in Applied Design.

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Three piece Georg Jensen studio set. Includes a necklace, earrings, and a brooch.

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These earrings were made using folded copper screen and enamel with sterling silver hoops.

1" x 2.5"

About the Artist

Fickett received a BFA in Metals and Jewelry from Missouri State University and a BA in History. He currently works as a studio artist, in the museum field, and as a freelance educator. He has taught hands on workshops to adults and to children, K-12 art lessons designed to supplement STEM curriculum, and in public art spaces using visual and writing study for art interpretation.

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Enamel on steel, kiln fired, sterling, and cotton cord.

About the Artist

Talbot has always been interested in the arts and after raising one son, time was found for not only enjoying the arts but creating art. Classes at the National Ornamental Metal Museum in Memphis and the Memphis College of Arts led Talbot to the ancient art of enameling, the firing of glass to metal. Unique jewelry and art objects are handcrafted of copper, fine silver, and vitreous/glass enamel. Depending on the desired effect, items are torch-fired or kiln-fired multiple times to the high quality of glass fused to metal. Techniques and materials such as screen printing, stenciling, etching, decals, graphite, gold leaf, glass frit and beads, horse hair and other organic matters, are used to enhance the basic enameled objects.

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Sterling silver and enameled copper with sterling silver post backs.

1.75" long, .5" wide, light as a feather.

About the Artist

Beaver is an artist and educator teaching jewelry and metalsmithing in the Art and Design Department at Murray State University. Her work is primarily jewelry and small scale sculpture. She works in sterling silver and have started enameling in the last few years. Beaver likes simple but elegant mechanical solutions to construction, bold color combinations, the blog Things Organized Neatly, and early punk, post punk, and new wave music, but call her taste eclectic.

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Years ago JG Braun donated some of their stamped mild steel leaf samples to the Museum. When some of these specimens were deaccessed from the collection, Clemons thought they would make interesting forms to respond to in the creation of a piece of jewelry. The resulting brooch includes some of the steel leaves combined with sterling silver and bone.

4" L x 1" W x .5" D

About the Artist

Clemons completed a painting BFA at the University of Texas in Austin. He earned his MFA in Metalsmithing in 2007 from San Diego State University. Clemons was fortunate to have the opportunity to developed and head the Metalsmithing and Jewelry Department at the University of Arkansas in Little Rock, Arkansas for 8 years. His work embraces Metalsmithing's collected history of techniques and objects. The resulting works in metal and mixed media are vehicles to communicate ideas surrounding identity and forays into material and process-based work.

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The earrings are fabricated from 18k gold with a Uvarovite Garnet. The beautiful garnet is set in a classical bezel with minimal accents to show off the dramatic look of the stone.

1" H x 7/8" W x 5/16" D

About the Artist

Jaudés draws from a wide range of metals and finishes to create the unique look and feel of each piece. She use traditional Metalsmithing methods, such as: Fabrication, forming, fold forming and lost wax casting, just to name a few. The various metal combinations influence and inform the overall design and the patinas create a detailed surface. She often use Prisma color pencils which allows her to incorporate her love for rendering, as well as achieve a distinctive look and surface of the work.

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Diamonds in forged steel with a white gold setting.

About the Artist

Pat Flynn is a goldsmith who lives and works in High Falls, New York. His iconic nail bracelets combine blackened iron with 22 karat and 18 karat yellow gold, 18 karat palladium white gold, diamonds and pearls. His larger cuff bracelets incorporate hinges and box clasps that not only suit functionality for the wearer, but display meticulous craftsmanship.

Each piece of jewelry is hand forged by Pat, often times incorporating fused 22 karat gold onto the iron. Pat is a master of subtle texture, working the surface with varying tools from the hammer and graver, to etching and filing. This attention to detail, technical control, and combination of disparate materials creates unparalleled elegance in his jewelry.

Pat's work has been featured in Metalsmith magazine and, most recently included in the Penland Book of Jewelry. His work can also be found in the collections of the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Institute, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Museum of Art & Design in New York. His work has most recently been acquired by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC.

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Stainless, sequins; milled pattern for the sequins, hydraulically formed, welded fabrication.

Since it is difficult to granulate in specific shapes or open patterns on domed surfaces, Dory cuts paths in the surface with a CNC mill. This opens up new design possibilities as he continues to explore possibilities in stainless granulation.

2" x 2" x .75" - 24" chain

About the Artist

Ben Dory is an artist and metalsmith originally from Kansas City, KS. Dory received his BFA in Metalsmithing/Jewelry from the University of Kansas and his MFA in Metalsmithing from Southern Illinois University Carbondale in 2014. While maintaining his studio practice, Ben explored various disciplines in the arts, including technician work, product design, nonprofit programming, collegiate teaching, and workshop instruction. Ben currently works out of his studio in Savannah, GA.

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