Curriculum Vitae

Karen Christians
98 Francis St., Unit 1
Waltham, MA  02451
781.893.1462

Education and Honors

• Revere Academy East, Granulation, North Carolina, 2006
• Massachusetts College of Art, Metals and Sculpture, Boston, MA, BFA, 1997
• Graduated with Distinction for Academic Merit
• Departmental Honors for Artistic Merit
• Foundation Auction Award for Outstanding Achievement in 3D
• DeCordova Museum School, Metals and Enameling, Lincoln, MA, 1990-93
• Idyllwild School for the Music and the Arts, Idyllwild, CA,  Michael Kaboti, Hopi Jewelry Overlay, 1992

Professional Positions

• Cleverwerx LLC,  Founder, 2008 to present
• Metalwerx, School for Jewelry and the Metal Arts, Founder and Director, 1998 – 2007
• Society of North American Goldsmiths, Board Member, 2001-03

Teaching

2011

• Making a Steampunk Clock, Charles River Museum of Industry, Waltham, MA
• Soldering 101, Metalwerx, Waltham, MA
• EL Wire, Waltham, MA
• Photoetching, Private Teaching, Amesbury, MA

2010

• Soldering 101, Metalwerx, Waltham, MA
• Resin Inlay, Peninsula School of Art, Fish Creek, WI
• Resin Inlay, Idllwild School of Art, Idllwyild, CA
• Resin Inlay, Metalwerx, Waltham, MA
• Making the Most of Your Flex Shaft, Metalwerx, MA
• EL Wire, Waltham, MA El Wire, Maynard, MA

2009

• Soldering 101, Metalwerx, Waltham, MA
• Resin Inlay, Metalwerx, Waltham, MA
• Resin Inlay, The Bead House, Providence, RI
• EL Wire, Boston, MA

1998 - 2008

• Metalwerx, Waltham, MA - Beginning and Intermediate Jewelry
• Photoetching, Cambridge Center for Adult Ed, Cambridge
• Cambridge Center for Adult Education – Beginning, Intermediate Jewelry and Studio Saturdays lectures
• Watertown, MA, Metalwerx Vendor Day, Soldering Sanctuary, 2010
• Watertown, MA, Metalwerx Vendor Day, Soldering Fundamentals, 2009
• Boston, MA, Massachusetts College of Art, Marketing for Artists, 2006
• Philadelphia, PA, University of the Arts, Guest Lecturer, 2005
• Tucson, AZ, MJSA, Making the Most of Your Flex-Shaft. 2004
• Belmont, MA, The Glass Bead Society, Marketing for Artists, 2004
• Atlanta, GA, Making the Most of Your Flex Shaft, JA Show, 2004
• Las Vegas, NV, Making the Most of Your Flex Shaft, JCK Show, 2004
• Boston, MA, North Bennett Street School, Marketing for Artists, 2004
• Cambridge MA, Cambridge Center for Adult Education, Victorian Flatware: Form and Function, 2001-03
• Tucson, AZ, Rio Grande Catalog in Motion, Marketing for Artists and Modernist Jewelry, 2003
• Boston MA, Massachusetts College of Art, Metalwerx: How it all Began, 2001 - 03

Publications

• Artist Jewelry, Step by Step Photoetching, April 2011
• Metalsmith Magazine, The Art and Movement of Steampunk, May 2011
• MJSA Journal, Portable Polishing, 2010
• MJSA Journal, Clip It, 2010
• Jewelry Artist, Green Tools Tool Review  2009
• MJSA Journal, McGyver Using a Sharpie Marker for Annealing  2007
• MJSA Journal, MacGyver Using a Potato as Heat Sink  2007
• Texas Jewelers Magazine, Flex-shaft: A Tool of Diversity 2006
• MJSA Journal, Totally Tubular 2005
• Making the Most of Your Flex-Shaft, MJSA/AJM Press 2005, 3rd reprint
• Lapidary Journal, Suzanne Wade, You Can Do It, article about Metalwerx, 2003
• American Jewelers Magazine, Tool Junkies , 2004
• February Issue, American Jewelers Magazine, John Shanahan, Breaking the Creative Block, 2001
• American Jewelers Magazine Suzanne Wade, Consignment Galleries, 2000
• American Jewelers Magazine, NewsFront, Review of Steve Midget¹s Mokume Gane, 2000
• October Issue, Lapidary Journal Suzanne Wade, Silver, 2000
• July Issue, Crafts Report, Linda Kaye-Moses, How Two Artists Started a Jewelry School, 1999

Major Art Projects

• Public Sculpture – 26ft Ring of Fire, Stainless Steel Engagement Ring – pending application, 2011
• Pendant Project for Burning Man, Black Rock City, NV,  2006 - present

Juried Exhibitions

• Maynard Edge, ArtSpace, Maynard, MA, 2009
• Firewalk with Me Wire Invitational, Brookfield Craft Center, Brookfield, CT, 2006
• Shaken, Not Stirred, Martini Invitational, Zaruba and Zaruba Gallery, Frederick, MD, 2005
• Buckles and Bolos, West Southwest Gallery, Denver, CO, 2002
• Duxbury Art Associations 28th Annual Winter Juried Show, Best in Sculpture, Duxbury MA, 2002
• 3M Competition, Innovations, Spoon for Eating Rocky Road Ice Cream 2002
• Summer Artist in Residence and Group Show, South Shore Arts Center, Cohasset, MA, 2001
• Group Invitational, Concord Arts Association, Concord, MA, 2001
• Open Photography & Sculpture Show, Cambridge Arts Association Cambridge, MA, 2001
• Fine Dining Cavalcade of Cod, Legal Seafoods Corporate Office, Boston, MA, 2000
• Best in Show for Jewelry Photography/Sculpture II, Concord Art Association, Concord, MA, 2000
• ³Freud¹s Third Dream Private Collection Mass College of Art Annual Auction, Boston, MA, 2000
• Metalwerx High Tea, Woburn, MA, 1999
• Metalmania, The Lexington Society for Arts and Crafts, Lexington, MA, 1999
• The Metalheads Guild Show, Barrett Gallery, Portsmouth, NH, 1999
• Society of North American Goldsmiths, Invitational The Links Project,  Seattle, WA, 1998
• Lafayette Art Association International Exhibition, Lafayette, LA, 1998
• Slowniski Gallery Sculpture for the Palm of the Hand Emerging Artists Finalist, New York, NY, 1998

Professional Societies

• Manufacturing Jewelers Services Association 2004 – present
• American Gemological Trade Association 2001 – present
• Society of Arts and Crafts 1999 – present
• American Craft Council 1993 – present
• International Sculpture Center 1993 – present
• Society of North American Goldsmiths 1991 - present