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Artist Biographies: Forged/Fabricated Metal
 Joseph Anderson
Joseph Anderson has always worked with his hands. Inheriting a small workshop when he was twelve, it became a playground of sorts. After his older brother taught him the rudiments of silversmithing, he began doing repair work for his stepfathers’ jewelry store, and he talked his metal shop teacher into buying some coal so he could experiment. Out of school, he moved to the San Francisco bay area and went into business as a jeweler. Several years later he decided he was not a jeweler at heart, traded those tools for larger ones and began to earn a living shaping hot iron. After years of repetitive practice and experimentation, his own style emerged. Over the last several years he has applied most of his energy into the exploration of line and form.
"It has been over thirty-five years since I first touched hot iron with a hammer and still hardly a day goes by that I am not amazed at some new way that I find to speak through this medium. I feel as if I am just getting started."
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 Alex Austin
Silversmith Alex Austin was first exposed to silver at age eleven. During her undergraduate years at the School of the Museum of Fine Art and Tufts University, Alex did not limit herself to silver, but continued to explore other mediums and the world around her, believing that all experiences can be transformed and used in art. After completing post-graduate studies at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Australia, she worked and exhibited in that country before returning to the United States and re-establishing her business, Austin Creations.
Alex has been exhibiting and showing at a professional level for more than 10 years throughout the country and internationally. In recent years, she has won major awards and published the book "The Craft of Silversmithing". She is one of the few people left who still does traditional silversmithing.
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David Caudill
Dave Caudill is an American sculptor who creates artworks for public, corporate and private collections. His larger public works may be found at Louisiana's Rip Van Winkle Gardens, East Tennessee's Horizon Center park, the University of Kentucky's Singletary Center for the Arts, University of Louisville School of Music, and the Louisville Zoo. He is also one of the few sculptors in the world who have created an environmental undersea sculpture. Caudill's artwork was placed on the seabed near Nassau, The Bahamas. His medium is welded stainless steel, used to create a wide variety of structures and images.
Caudill attended the University of Kentucky and the Louisville School of Art. Current professional affiliations include the International Sculpture Center, the Kentucky Guild of Artists & Craftsmen and the Kentucky Museum of Arts + Design, of which he is a board member.
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Susan Hutchinson
Susan Hutchinson produces a variety of contemporary, functional items for the home and garden made from metal (mostly wrought iron), and sometimes mixed media. Her scale ranges from tiny hooks to large architectural installations. Large pieces are generally one-of-a-kind commissions for private clients, and smaller pieces are often the result of several years development of a particular theme.
While function is always important, line and form referencing an organic emergence of movement and time are the visual subjects of her work. This lends a natural connection to the historical periods of the early 1900's Arts and Crafts movement, Art Nouveau, and later, Art Deco.
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