TRACY STEEPY

risd connection: Assistant Professor + Graduate Coordinator, Jewelry + Metalsmithing; at RISD since 2004

about the artist
Tracy Steepy’s work focuses on the format and subject matter of jewelry. Born 1973 in Honolulu, HI and raised in Goldsboro, NC, Steepy earned a BFA in Metalsmithing & Jewelry Design from Indiana University and a MFA from the Metals Program at SUNY/New Paltz. She has been exhibited at The Society of Arts and Crafts (Boston, MA), The Society for Contemporary Craft (Pittsburgh, PA), International Competition in Crafts, Design and Technology (Munich, Germany), and SOFA New York/Chicago. Steepy’s work has been reviewed in American Craft, Metalsmith and Sculpture magazine. For three years before coming to RISD Steepy was a visiting assistant professor in the metalsmithing department at the University of Oregon.

selected exhibitions
2005 Experimental Jewelry, Heidi Lowe: The Jewelry Studio, Rehoboth Beach, DE
2004 200 Rings Exhibition, Velvet da Vinci Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004 3D: Devilish, Decadent, Delicious, Emily H. Davis Gallery, The University of Akron, OH
2003 Current Direction: Studio Art Jewelry, Delaware Center for Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE
2003 SOFA New York:International Exposition of Sculptural Objects & Functional Art, Seventh Regiment Armory, New York, NY
2002 Generating Connections: Mentors & Emerging Jewelers, The Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, MA 2001 Transformation: Contemporary Works in Jewelry & Small Metals, Society for Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA
Talente 2001: International Competition in Crafts, Design, & Technology, International Trade Fair, Munich, Germany
2001 21st Century Metalsmiths: Individual & Collaborative Works, New Art Center, Newtonville, MA

awards + scholarships
2000 Research and Creative Projects Grant SUNY at New Paltz, New Paltz, NY
2000 Student Art Alliance Travel Scholarship SUNY at New Paltz, New Paltz, NY
1997 Regional Artists Project Grant Beaufort County Arts Council, Washington, NC
1996 Alma Eikerman Memorial Award Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
1996 Grace L. Dyer Memorial Award John Waldron Arts Center, Bloomington, IN
1995 Art Forms 1995 Purchase Award Greater Lafayette Museum of Art, Lafayette, IN
1995 Robert E. and Marie T. Long Award Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

education
MFA in Metals, SUNY at New Paltz, NY, 2000
BFA in Metals, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 1996