Process: Material as message

California born but Oklahoma raised, Kelly Ann Temple, currently lives in San Diego where she is an MFA Candidate at San Diego State University.  After receiving her BFA in Jewelry and Metalsmithing from the University of Central Oklahoma, she began teaching in many different venues.  Kelly took the position as Instructor of Record for Jewelry and Metalsmithing at the University of Central Oklahoma where she taught Jewelry for Non-Majors, Jewelry and Metalsmithing I, II and advanced courses for non-major students.  In addition, Kelly has spent multiple years traveling year around to Poland, Maine teaching silversmithing to young children at the prestigious Camp Fernwood and taught advanced metals techniques to locals at the Norman Firehouse Art Center.

Kelly has been recently been awarded the SNAG Educational Endowment Scholarship, President’s Award from the SDSU Student Research Symposium, SDSU Arts Council Scholarship, and a recipient of a Student Success Fee Grant.

Kelly is interested in our relationship with medical interventions; she is both fascinated and fears the body’s ability to adapt, accept, reject and repair.  Her current wearable work captures the intimate moments of where the biological and mechanical touch.

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Images by Kat St. Aubin