Engaging in a multidisciplinary approach of making, my work reimagines the function of ornamentation and its relationship to the body. I approach new materials and found objects with the eye of a jeweler, highlighting and exploiting the subtle, and often invisible, links between material histories and their connection to identity. Using the language of adornment and jewelry in my work I propose a new lens for viewing functions. In doing so I highlight the bodies’ impact on objects and call into to question the role these objects play in shaping our understanding of identity—An identity that is never singular, constantly evolving, and more often than not contradictory and confusing.

[ "Will you Be Mine" by Everrett Hoffman ]

Everett Hoffman is a cross-disciplinary artist living in Philadelphia. He has been a visiting artist at several universities around the United States and is currently a critic in the Jewelry + Metalsmithing department at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, RI. In 2024, Everett was a finalist for the Art Jewelry Forum Young Artist Award where he exhibited with Galerie Platina at Handwerk und Design in Munich, Germany. From 2020-23, he was a resident artist at Penland School of Craft. He has also completed a yearlong residency at Arrowmont School of Art and Craft (2018-19) and a three-month residency at the Baltimore Jewelry Center (2019). Everett’s work has been published in BmoreArt, Metalsmith, and Jewelry and Metalsmithing Survey. He has written for the Metalsmith and Art Jewelry Forum publications, as well as been invited to speak, at the JMGA Conference in Perth Australia, the Museum of Art and Design during New York Jewelry Week. His work has been exhibited at the Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY; Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach, VA; Contemporary Craft Museum, Pittsburgh, PA; Sienna Patti Gallery, Lennox, MA; Metal Museum, Memphis, TN; and the Benaki Museum in Athens, Greece. He received his MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University (2018) and BFA from Boise State University (2013).

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