My teaching approach is to do small step-by-step demonstrations and encourage students to ask many questions along the way. No questions are bad questions!
Meet
Megan Kerr
Megan Kerr, born in Geneva, New York, is a metalsmith, contemporary jeweler, and artist. Megan received a BFA in Metal from SUNY New Paltz. She has furthered her professional development as a resident at the Vermont Studio Center and conducted a metalsmithing workshop at Snow Farm Craft School.
As an artist, Megan creates sculptures and jewelry that disassemble familiar and intimate forms to portray vulnerability, impermanence, and repair.
She creates tools with function and dysfunction using methods such as casting, electroforming, forging, and chain making. Her works have been exhibited/published in The Society of Arts and Crafts, Ethical Metalsmiths “So Fresh, So Clean,” The Delaplaine Arts Center, The Samuel Dorsky Museum, and The Baltimore Jewelry Center.
Megan currently lives in the Finger Lakes region of New York state and enjoys reading classic fiction books, playing the ukulele, and watching baking/cooking shows! When she is not spending time with family and friends, she is spending time with her loving dog, Leo!
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