Art Commissions for Institutions
About
Emily Banas, Associate Curator, Decorative Arts and Design will moderate a conversation with Mallory Weston (RISD MFA 2013 Jewelry + Metalsmithing) and steven KP (RISD MFA 2020 Jewelry + Metalsmithing) on their experiences with art commissions and projects with institutions. This conversation aims to provide valuable insight on institutional art commissions for artists working in all mediums.
The RISD Museum recently collaborated with both artists on jewelry commissions including Mallory Weston’s Romantic Subjects and steven KP’s Madiera/Timber.
Free. Registration is requested for this in-person program.
This program is presented by RISD E’Ship and the RISD Museum.
steven KP is an artist, jeweler, and educator based in Providence, Rhode Island. Currently a Visiting Lecturer at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, KP received their MFA in Jewelry and Metalsmithing from the Rhode Island School of Design and holds a BFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. KP’s studio practice is centered around investigations of empathy, material culture, and queer experience. KP is a 2017 Windgate Fellow awarded by the Center for Craft, Ashville, NC USA and a winner of the 2020 Marzee Prize from Gallerie Marzee in Nijmegen, NL. KP’s carved wooden knots, gestures and forms have been exhibited nationally and international and are housed in numerous important public and private collections including the Museum of Art and Design in New York, NY and the RISD Museum in Providence, RI.
Mallory Weston is an artist living and working in Philadelphia, PA. Her work involves a marriage of traditional jewelry techniques and textile techniques, and she creates large-scale wearable pieces that allow metal to move with the fluidity of fabric. Mallory currently works as an Associate Professor of Metals/Jewelry/CAD-CAM at Temple University’s Tyler School of Art and Architecture in Philadelphia. She received her MFA in Jewelry + Metalsmithing from the Rhode Island School of Design, graduating in 2013.
Mallory’s work has been featured in the solo exhibitions Nodes at Sienna Patti Contemporary in Massachusetts and Knock Off at Platina Galerie in Stockholm, Sweden. Her work has also appeared in notable group exhibitions such as Objects: USA at R & Company in New York City and 45 Stories at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City. Her work can be found in the permanent collections of the CODA Museum and Design Museum Den Bosch in the Netherlands and the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, and the Museum of Arts and Design in the United States.
In addition to her career as an educator, she maintains an active studio practice as a member of the JV Collective, a group of seven art jewelers anchored in Philadelphia but national in scope. As a collective, they’ve organized curatorial projects such as Unfamiliars and TASTY during Munich Jewellery Week in 2024, the juried exhibition In-School Suspension, and Sirens, which traveled to Munich, Baltimore, and New York City. She is an engaged participant in the global art jewelry community, regularly participating in group exhibitions both nationally and internationally and collaborating with other makers and artistic platforms.