Professor, Jewelry and Metals, Computer-Aided Design + Digital Fabrication
Sharon Massey is a metalsmith, jeweler and enamelist whose artwork has been exhibited in over 100 juried and invitational exhibitions around the world, in venues such as the Tokyo Museum of Art in Japan, Glass-Museum ZIBA in Prague, Czech Republic, the Museum of Brazilian Object in São Paulo, Brazil and the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh.
Her work has been included in numerous publications, including American Craft and Metalsmith magazines, The Art of Enameling, and Art Jewelry Today 2nd, 3rd, and 4th editions. Sharon’s work is included in eleven public collections including the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Yale University Art Gallery.
In addition to being a professor at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Sharon has been invited to teach workshops at Penland School of Craft, Haystack Mountain School for Crafts, the 92nd St Y in NYC, the Baltimore Jewelry Center and at universities around the US. Her research interests include historical jewelry and adornment as well as new approaches to education and making with emerging technologies. Sharon is a co-founder of Local X Change, a collaboration with artist Sean Derry that seeks to democratize art and technology through public projects that combine design, technology and civic engagement. See more images on her website: www.sharon-massey.com
MFA in Metal Design, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC
BFA in Sculpture with concentration in Jewelry and Metals, Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC