Kat Cole works from her home studio in Columbus, GA. Cole received her MFA at East Carolina University and BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University. She is co-founder of the online and pop-up project Jewelry Edition, was on the Board of Directors for Society for North American Goldsmiths (SNAG) 2015-2021, then served as Interim Managing Director and coordinated SNAG’s first virtual conference in 2021.
Kat Cole’s work is internationally recognized and exhibited and has been published in Lark Books’ 500 Enameled Objects, Schiffer Publishing’s Art Jewelry Today 3, Metalsmith Magazine, Ornament, American Craft and Art Jewelry Magazine. Her work is in private and public collections including The Museum of Arts and Design in New York City, Racine Art Museum, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Enamel Foundation and Houston Museum of Fine Art.
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Ebendorf & The Usual Suspects
24 Feb - 6 May 2023This dimensional biography of renowned jeweler Robert Ebendorf features a selection of works from the artist alongside the students and mentors who helped to embolden his wildly original practice of...Read more -
OBJECTS: REDUX—50 Years of Craft Evolution
31 Jan - 30 Apr 2020OBJECTS: REDUX has been extended through the month of April. In 1969, the Smithsonian American Art Museum debuted OBJECTS: USA , a sprawling exhibition featuring 308 craft artists and over...Read more -
Jewelry Edition V
A Traveling Show-In-A-Box 6 Sep - 5 Oct 2019One box — eight American makers. Jewelers Kat Cole and Laura Wood bring their favorite emerging metalsmiths and jewelry artists to a national audience, starting with Santa Fe. Jewelry Edition...Read more -
Six Years Smitten
26 Jul - 12 Oct 2019“It started with a community of makers who wanted to create in a radical new way,” says Marissa Saneholtz, one of the co-founders of the Smitten Forum. Every year since...Read more -
Macrocosm: Large Works Show
30 Nov - 31 Dec 2018While artists from our 2018 programming pare their work down to 8 x 10 inches in our MICROCOSM exhibition, our jewelry artists will undertake a more expansive challenge. For its...Read more
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Opening Reception: Ebendorf & The Usual Suspects
5-7pm 24 Feb 2023This dimensional biography of renowned jeweler Robert Ebendorf features a selection of works from the artist alongside the students and mentors that helped to embolden...Read more -
POSTPONED: Screening & Roundtable Discussion
14 Mar 2020J. Fred Woell, An American VisionRead more -
Curator's Talk with William Dunn
2pm 1 Feb 2020OBJECTS: REDUX— 50 Years of Craft Evolution curator William Dunn joins Houston Center for Contemporary Craft curator Kathryn Hall for a talk on how 50...Read more -
Opening Reception: OBJECTS: REDUX
5 - 7pm 31 Jan 2020Join us for the opening night of OBJECTS: REDUX— 50 Years of Craft Evolution , featuring over 70 pieces by seminal historical and contemporary craft...Read more -
Closing Reception: Jewelry Edition V
5 - 7pm 27 Sep 2019Celebrate the first stop of traveling show-in-a-box Jewelry Edition V at form & concept before the exhibit departs on its national tour. JEV features over...Read more -
Curator's Talk: Jewelry Edition V
2 - 3pm 21 Sep 2019Join metalsmith Kat Cole, co-founder of traveling show-in-a-box Jewelry Edition , for a talk on the ever-evolving field of adornment. Jewelry Edition V is on...Read more -
Opening Reception: Six Years Smitten
5 - 7pm 26 Jul 2019'It started with a community of makers who wanted to create in a radical new way,' says Marissa Saneholtz, one of the co-founders of the...Read more