Castables In Jewelry

Katja Toporski was born in Frankfurt, Germany and is a jewelry maker, professor, and writer with an MFA from Towson University, Maryland. In addition, Toporski also holds a medical degree and had been a practicing anesthesiologist prior to her career in jewelry.

Toporski’s work is informed by philosophical thinking and combines archetypal objects and elements to explore the limitations of our knowledge. She often uses specific materials to support her concepts in an attempt to gain access to the invisible and the unsaid. Her work has been shown in numerous exhibitions across the US as well as internationally, in both group and solo exhibitions.

She is also an art curator, most recently on the exhibition titled Side Effects, in collaboration with Anja Eichler, at the Bayerische Kunstgewerbe Verein in Munich and the Baltimore Jewelry Center in 2020. Toporski’s recent work has been shown in solo exhibitions at A-Galerii in Tallinn, Estonia, the Art Center East in Finland, and the Baltimore Jewelry Center. She currently lives just outside Washington D.C.

Artist website: http://katjatoporski.com/
Instagram: @katjatoporski

The program will begin Sunday morning with a brief orientation at 8:30 am. Workshops will start at 9 am.

Sunday night will feauture a program mixer where you will have an opportunity to meet with your classmates and other students in our adult programs for the week.

Monday nights feature an opening reception at the Parks Exhibition Gallery, featuring work from our very own summer faculty!

Daily instruction occurs from 9am-12 pm with a break for lunch in the campus dining hall (included in tuition) and followed with more instruction from 1pm- 4pm.

Artist Talks will be held in the evenings on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. This is a wonderful opportunity to listen to our Metals Week and HOT Clay instructors speak about their art.

On Friday afternoon you will be able to display your own work at our Culmination event outside Parks Exhibition Center!