Kat Cole
Kat Cole planned to enroll as a ceramics major when she began her undergraduate work at Virginia Commonwealth University, but the classes were full and she took a beginning jewelry class instead and never looked back. A seemingly endless range of techniques to be mastered in the intimate scale of contemporary jewelry drew her in. During Cole's last semester of undergraduate, Helen Carnac came for a week as a visiting artist to teach enameling. So she was introduced to working with steel and enamel as a combo from early on, and attributed that experience to the direction her work took a few years later.
Kat Cole received her MFA at East Carolina University and BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University and was a Visiting Professor in Metals/Jewelry at Western Michigan University. Cole is currently a full-time studio artist in Dallas, TX and is the co-founder of Jewelry Edition. She has been a presenter at Yuma Symposium and Craft Boston, teaches workshops nationally and has exhibited internationally. Cole’s work is in private and public collections including The Museum of Arts and Design in New York City and Houston Museum of Fine Art.
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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 500...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
