I have always been drawn to tiny beautiful things. My love of unique human adornment came from the artists and jewelers I grew up admiring as I accompanied my mother to the fairs she vended. Metalsmithing came to me as a gift from one of those jewelry artists. The process of forming metal felt like a kind of magic to me. That was only hightened with discovering I could carve small sculptures from wax and cast them into metal. Now I see metal in everything around me. Inspiration often comes in a simple question; what if it were metal?
Zoe Marchiano is a Philadelphia based jewelry artist. Her metalsmithing education was found in a shared jewelry studio at NextFab Fishtown. There she discovered lost wax casting which ignited a passion that has cultivated her current body of work. With the help of mentors, she is continually learning and expanding her metalsmithing abilities.
