Workshopping With: Maru López

Workshopping With is our latest virtual programming series, led by artists and educators on a variety of topics. Board members Kristi Zevenbergen, Kay Stauffer,    Maru Lopez, Michael Brehl, Jessica Andersen, and Sarah Darro will lead Session 2.

Crafting your Artist Statement
Sat Oct 5th, 2024, 1:00 pm ET

Explore creative writing techniques with Maru López to create artist statements that communicate your vision, concept, and ideas, while also emphasizing connections to technique and materials in your metal art practice.

Instructor Bio: 

Maru Lopez is an artist, educator, and emerging craft researcher. Born in San Juan, Puerto Rico she is presently based in San Diego, CA. Her practice is a process of exploration and reflection about our connections to objects and the meaning we install in them. For the last decade, she has focused on jewelry, its intimate relationship with the body, and how this provides a powerful platform to share ideas. Her jewelry has been exhibited throughout Europe, Latin America and the United States including in Jewellery is a Metamorphic view of the World in the  Ilias Lalalounis Jewelry Museum in Greece, Manfred Bischoff: A Retrospective during Munich Jewellery Week 2015, Alchimia: An Anthology at the Society of Arts and Crafts in Boston Vinte e Tres: Joalharia Contemporanes na Ibero-America in Lisbon Portugal, II Bienal Latinoamericana de Joyeria Contemporanea in Argentina, Hot Dog: An Exhibition during SNAG 2019, Passengers in Munich Jewellery Week 2020, as well as Insurgencies: Women’s Art on the Border in the Era of the Cold War in The Front Gallery in San Diego and Objects D’ Art in Embajada Gallery in San Juan. Alongside her artistic practice, Maru teaches jewelry workshops and works as a museum educator in San Diego. Maru holds a BA in Latin American History, an AAS in Fashion Design, and studied jewelry for 4 years at Alchimia Contemporary Jewellery School in Florence, Italy. She recently completed a MA in Critical Craft Studies at Warren Wilson College where she researched Puerto Rico, craft knowledges in contemporary art, notions of Puerto Ricanness, and possibilities of re-imaginings.