Fringe Earrings 1

steel, enamel

1.25 in long

My newest body of work, Fringe, is a celebration of experiential jewelry featuring repetition, color and movement in steel and enamel. Working in lightweight steel allows the work to be substantial but still wearable. The jewelry and objects are adorned with individual enameled fringe components that shimmer and color-shift as the pieces hang and move.

Artist Bio:
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. She received a BFA from Winthrop University in 1999, and an MFA from East Carolina University in 2006. 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.