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Sharon Massey and Studio Stream at Local X Change prioritizes collaboration and civic engagement as a tactic to democratize art and technology.
This week on the Girls That Create podcast Erin chats with Sharon Massey, a metalsmith, jeweler and cofounder of Studio Stream, a web-based radio station with content made exclusively by young people in rural Pennsylvania.
Based out of a Japanese mini truck converted into an earthbound communication satellite, Studio Stream recently invited teens to create and record their chosen audio content in the summer of 2024. The teens also had the opportunity to build a Bluetooth speaker from scratch to play their audio recordings from home. Massey started the project with her Indiana University of Pennsylvania colleague Sean Derry.
More About Sharon Massey
Sharon Massey is a metalsmith, jeweler and enamellist 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. Massey’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, she 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. Massey 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. Massey 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.
For more information about Studio Stream, visit localxchange.org. To learn about Massey’s work sharon-massey.com.
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Metalsmith
Sharon Massey is a mid-career jeweler, metalsmith and enamelist based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her jewelry was selected for both Schmuck 2014 and Schmuck 2015 in Munich, Germany. From 2012 to 2015 Sharon served on the board of directors of the Society of North American Goldsmiths (SNAG) and she currently serves on the board of trustees of the Enamelist Society. In 2009 she received the Art Jewelry Forum (AJF) Young Artist Award and was included in Lucca Preziosa Young. Images of Sharon’s jewelry have been published in both American Craft and Metalsmith magazines, and more than ten books, including The Art of Enameling, Art Jewelry Today 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Editions, and New Brooches. Sharon’s work is included in several public collections including the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Enamel Arts Foundation in Los Angeles, California, the Racine Art Museum in Racine, Wisconsin, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, England. She received her BFA from Winthrop University in 1999 and her MFA from East Carolina University in 2006.
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