Kristina Malcolm - fluxusmetalworks

05/29/2026

it is an honor to be included in Enduring Legacy: Celebrating 25 Years of Ohio Decorative Arts at .

it is an honor to be recognized as an Ohio metalsmith.

it is an honor to have been practicing for more than 30 years

i ponder legacy often.

do i make work that matters?
do i make a big enough impact?
am i contributing something real to the field, to Craft, to Ohio, and to the people who come after me?

i don’t always know the answer. but i do know this: i keep making. i keep teaching. i keep writing. i keep trying to honor silver, Craft history, and the long line of hands that made room for mine.

to be included in this exhibition — alongside so many artists working across glass, fiber, wood, metal, and clay — feels deeply meaningful.

Enduring Legacy: Celebrating 25 Years of Ohio Decorative Arts
May 30 – August 30, 2026
Decorative Arts Center of Ohio, Lancaster, Ohio

Curator Talk 1: Sunday, May 31, 2:00 pm
with Betty Talbott and Tracy Rieger

thank you to the curators and everyone preserving and expanding the story of Ohio decorative arts.

if you're in Columbus this summer stop by and enjoy the exhibit! with metalsmithing greats like and wood turning experts like Tim Niewiadomski, it's sure to be a great show!

05/27/2026

what do i have in common with these metalsmiths?
Mary Lee Hu,
Alan Revere,
Charles Lewton-Brain,
John Cogswell,
Andrea Kennington,
Arline Fisch,
Cynthia Eid,
Marilynn Nicholson,
Deb Stoner,
Bette Barnett,
and David Hwang.

somehow, beautifully, unbelievably, we have all taught at The Norman Firehouse Arts Center in Norman, OK.

Elyse Bogart has been building and tending this metalsmithing lineage at the Firehouse since the early 1980s, and i am deeply honored to have my name placed anywhere near this history.

i just got home from teaching a four-day tufa casting workshop, and i came back feeling overwhelmed, invigorated, grateful, proud, and a little bit more hopeful in the state of our nation. there are good pockets of people everywhere and i'm proud to be included.

the people, the place, the fire, the stone, the generosity, and of course the food — all of it.

what an amazing experience.
what a gift to teach.
what a gift to be included.

thank you, .
thank you, .

go Craft. :)

05/20/2026

Ohio is a true creative corridor for women who helped redefine the history of American Craft. let me prove it to you.

in the Rust Belt, women metalsmiths turned metal into technology, textile, painting, protest, pedagogy, and care.

Ohio was not the only important region for women in American metalsmithing, but it produced a distinctive kind of metalsmith: one shaped by industry, design education, enamel, labor, and material reinvention.

where other regions emphasized Southwest silver traditions, California modernism, or East Coast academic studio jewelry, Ohio’s women metalsmiths helped turn metal into technology, textile, painting, critique, and care.

Ohio is not the only important place for women in American metalsmithing, but it has a weirdly powerful concentration of women who expanded what metal and Craft could do.

the “why” is the good part:

Ohio had industry. rubber, steel, manufacturing, industrial design, machine culture, tools, and material intelligence were already in the air. Mary Ann Scherr is the clearest example: Akron-born, nationally influential, and known for body-monitoring jewelry decades before contemporary wearable tech became common language.

Ohio had design education with women at the root. Cleveland Institute of Art began in 1882 as the Western Reserve School of Design for Women, which gives this whole story a serious historical spine. that means women were not an accidental sidebar in Ohio design education; they were part of the foundation.

Ohio had enamel. Mary Ellen McDermott, born in Akron and trained at the Cleveland School of Art, worked across painting, fashion illustration, jewelry, and enamel; she helped push enamel toward painterly, experimental expression rather than just “pretty surface.”

Ohio had metal crossing into textile and body. Mary Lee Hu, born in Lakewood, became known for jewelry made with textile techniques — metal behaving like woven thread, structure, softness, and bodily ornament all at once.

the pattern is real. let's celebrate the power on women in Craft.

05/17/2026

Watch me flap around on screen as per normal, take five minutes to answer a question, and very gracefully avoid the question of how I price my work… because honestly, who knows how to price art in this economy?

I had a blast talking with Jana and Malcolm from Malcolm Presents: Celebrating Everyday People about metalsmithing, teaching, Craft, Healing Hands, and what it means to keep making a creative life. I even got even got in a little plug for and my upcoming workshop.

Meet Kristina Malcolm artist and hear all about HEALY HANDShttps://youtu.be/IFzjpudi_3E

05/06/2026

yay! Sunday was fab!

05/06/2026

Two sessions. Many wearable designs. A whole new doorway into jewelry making. Sign-up now!

Start Making Jewelry Now: Adjustable Copper Rings is a beginner-friendly online class through Pocosin Arts School of Fine Craft where we’ll make an adjustable copper ring from start to finish—right from home.

Copper is the perfect place to begin: warm, affordable, expressive, and forgiving enough to let you learn without fear. We’ll set up a simple workspace, talk through tools and safety, design for real hands, measure with confidence, saw your ring blank, then add stamping, texture, form, finish, polish, and patina.

This class is for you if you’ve been wanting to make jewelry but don’t know where to start. It’s also for you if you need a calm, creative reset and want a small project with a big sense of accomplishment.

You’ll leave with wearable rings, a repeatable process, and the confidence to keep making.

May 7 & 14
11 AM–1 PM ET
Online — watch anytime
Instructor: kristina malcolm

04/17/2026

summer metalsmithing classes!

04/16/2026

🔥look everyone! celebrate with me! that's my name right there! i make excellent metal stuff!
my heart is full! thank you Ohio Designer Craftsmen! ❤️

04/16/2026

here is a video of Terra Luna, the tufa cast bracelet i made during my last class!

04/12/2026

I love teaching online. It gives me a chance to play. This is my newest experiment in Tufa Casting from my Tufa and Torch class with Silvera Jewelry School. Meet Terra Luna.