Bio

Kristi Rae Wilson received her MFA in Jewelry/Metals from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign (2010). Here she received the Creative and Performing Arts Fellowship and the Brodie Material Grant. Her work has been included in international and national publications and exhibited throughout the United States. The Society of North American Goldsmiths (SNAG) awarded her the Educational Endowment Scholarship to participate in the Jewelry Opere Workshop (Netherlands) where she studied with contemporary jeweler, Ruudt Peters. Wilson was an Artist-In-Resident at the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft (2010-2011), a guest lecturer at Bowling Green State University (2012) and New Mexico State University (2014). For over 10 years Wilson has taught Jewelry + Small Scale Metal Construction at the University of New Mexico-Gallup.