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Photo Credit - Iliana Lawrence
Christopher earned his Studio Art BFA in Jewelry Design and Metalsmithing from Texas Tech University under nationally accredited artists Professors Robly Glover and Nancy Slagle. Under the guidance of Andrew Kuebeck, he is pursuing his Studio Art MFA in Jewelry/Metals/Enameling with a Graduate Teaching Assistantship at Kent State University. He studied under award-winning metalsmith John Garrott at Allen High School where he developed designs such as Midnight and Zephyr - winning first place at the Saul Bell Design Awards in the Emerging Artist categories in consecutive years.
He was awarded the Ohio Designer Craftsmen Board of Trustees Emerging Artist Award for Strata II -Under Heaven & Over Hell in the "Best of 2025" ODC Museum Juried Exhibition, 1st Place Carol Tyler Memorial Award and Technical Award in the 2024 New England Chapter, International Precious Metals Institute Jewelry Design Competition for his piece, Strata, and has exhibited in Craftforms 2023, the Bristol Art Museum's Miniature Monumental and the Craft Council of British Columbia Earring Show. He is also the recipient of the 2020 and 2023 MJSA Education Foundation Scholarship, the 2020 Clare Hart DeGolyer Memorial Fund Award presented by the Dallas Museum of Art, and the 2022 SNAG Educational Endowment.
Between school, and summers teaching silversmithing at Camp Fernwood, where students ages 13-15 learn and apply the fundamentals of silversmithing and jewelry making, he takes on fine-jewelry commissions, developing his studio practice through fabricating one-of-a-kind pieces.
He was awarded the Ohio Designer Craftsmen Board of Trustees Emerging Artist Award for Strata II -Under Heaven & Over Hell in the "Best of 2025" ODC Museum Juried Exhibition, 1st Place Carol Tyler Memorial Award and Technical Award in the 2024 New England Chapter, International Precious Metals Institute Jewelry Design Competition for his piece, Strata, and has exhibited in Craftforms 2023, the Bristol Art Museum's Miniature Monumental and the Craft Council of British Columbia Earring Show. He is also the recipient of the 2020 and 2023 MJSA Education Foundation Scholarship, the 2020 Clare Hart DeGolyer Memorial Fund Award presented by the Dallas Museum of Art, and the 2022 SNAG Educational Endowment.
Between school, and summers teaching silversmithing at Camp Fernwood, where students ages 13-15 learn and apply the fundamentals of silversmithing and jewelry making, he takes on fine-jewelry commissions, developing his studio practice through fabricating one-of-a-kind pieces.
Photo Credit - Justin Rex
"As a former competitive figure skater, I draw on the intuition of that experience and liken the manipulation of metal to the intricate, constructed movement of the body across the ice. Persistent elements of “line” and “flow” (used to describe the form and movement of a skater) express themselves through volumes of wire - their projections, stone setting, and light, that are used to depict hidden interspatial relationships between the infinitely small and vast as metaphorical parallels for how we interact with and within the world at-large.
We can define the things we cannot see with the forces and structures surrounding them and through the space they displace, disrupt and distort. My work aims to bridge the void between atomic forces and cosmic connections, to individual, inter-personal forces and gravities. The work in effect, traces the abstract, giving form to the elusive presence of space that divides, by using the inherent material qualities of fashion and jewelry, and the representation of the of indescribably small, and incoherently massive as a means of reaching out into the void and pulling the world, around me and the wearer to bring indescribable intangible forces to an intimate, human scale."
We can define the things we cannot see with the forces and structures surrounding them and through the space they displace, disrupt and distort. My work aims to bridge the void between atomic forces and cosmic connections, to individual, inter-personal forces and gravities. The work in effect, traces the abstract, giving form to the elusive presence of space that divides, by using the inherent material qualities of fashion and jewelry, and the representation of the of indescribably small, and incoherently massive as a means of reaching out into the void and pulling the world, around me and the wearer to bring indescribable intangible forces to an intimate, human scale."
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