Curtis Hidemasa Arima is a metalsmith who makes jewelry and sculpture in multiple mediums  in his Berkeley studio. He earned a BFA from California College of Arts and Crafts and an MFA from Cranbrook Academy. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. His publications include, Metalsmith Magazine, Sculpture Magazine, Lapidary Journal, the Lark 500 Series books, and New Brooches.  He has lectured and taught workshops in the US, Japan, and China. 

Curtis H. Arima is an associate professor and Co-chair for the Jewelry & Metal Art Program at CCA where he enjoys teaching students different approaches to making art, and help them find their artistic identities.

RJM jewelry components (spoons), Recycled Silver (earrings)

60x30x5mm (length x width x depth)

Curtis Hidemasa Arima is a metalsmith who makes jewelry and sculpture in multiple mediums  in his Berkeley studio. He earned a BFA from California College of Arts and Crafts and an MFA from Cranbrook Academy. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. His publications include, Metalsmith Magazine, Sculpture Magazine, Lapidary Journal, the Lark 500 Series books, and New Brooches.  He has lectured and taught workshops in the US, Japan, and China. 

Curtis H. Arima is an associate professor and Co-chair for the Jewelry & Metal Art Program at CCA where he enjoys teaching students different approaches to making art, and help them find their artistic identities.

RJM "gold", Recycled Silver, Sterling Silver Chain

Chain Length: 20in, pendant: 35x35x5mm (length x width x depth)

Taylor Zarkades King is a studio artist and jeweler living and working in Western Massachusetts. Formally trained as a metalsmith her craft based practice sways between a jewelers bench and a studio that finds its form through larger configurations of wood, fiber, print and re-contextualized objects. Her reuse of materials has become an ongoing study in adaptation, coded language, and a queer digestion of belonging, kinship, desire and home. King received her MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2019 and a BFA from California College of the Arts in 2010. She was a 2013 artist-in-residence with EDITIONBasel at Druckwerks [Basel, Switzerland] and the 2019 artist-in-residence with Quirk Gallery + VisArts Center [Richmond, VA]. Her work has been exhibited in San Fransisco, Oakland, Seattle, Richmond, Chicago, New York, as well as internationally in Basel Switzerland, Oaxaca Mexico, and Beijing China. King has taught Jewelry/Metalsmithing workshops and classes at California College of the Arts, Richmond Fine Art Center [CA], Virginia Commonwealth University, VisArts Center of Richmond [VA], and several small pop-up project spaces across the US.

Taylor Zarkades King is an RJM Artist: Artist Project

RJM silver, plastic bead, glass rhinestones

size 6.5, 65x70x45mm (length x width x depth)

Taylor Zarkades King is a studio artist and jeweler living and working in Western Massachusetts. Formally trained as a metalsmith her craft based practice sways between a jewelers bench and a studio that finds its form through larger configurations of wood, fiber, print and re-contextualized objects. Her reuse of materials has become an ongoing study in adaptation, coded language, and a queer digestion of belonging, kinship, desire and home. King received her MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2019 and a BFA from California College of the Arts in 2010. She was a 2013 artist-in-residence with EDITIONBasel at Druckwerks [Basel, Switzerland] and the 2019 artist-in-residence with Quirk Gallery + VisArts Center [Richmond, VA]. Her work has been exhibited in San Fransisco, Oakland, Seattle, Richmond, Chicago, New York, as well as internationally in Basel Switzerland, Oaxaca Mexico, and Beijing China. King has taught Jewelry/Metalsmithing workshops and classes at California College of the Arts, Richmond Fine Art Center [CA], Virginia Commonwealth University, VisArts Center of Richmond [VA], and several small pop-up project spaces across the US.

Taylor Zarkades King is an RJM Artist: Artist Project

White oak, RJM silver, spring steel, vintage plastic, necklace strands, rhinestone earrings

200x65x20mm (length x width x depth)