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Professional metalsmithing and jewelry studio, exhibition project space, artist lecture series, classes & workshops.

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Announcing the Resonance Residency Fundraiser! 📣

Brooklyn Metal Works is fundraising to launch the Resonance Residency, a program offering jewelry artists at every level of their career an opportunity to develop their studio practice.

To welcome the initial cohort of artists in residence, we are fundraising through selections of specialty publications from Helen Drutt Gallery (@helendrutt) as well as accepting sustaining donations in correspondence with different features of the residency.

We are extremely grateful for our community’s support in implementing the Resonance Residency! Any amount contributed towards our first tier goal of $20,000 to support our first three jewelry artists in residence is greatly appreciated.

To donate now, visit bkmetalworks.com/resonance-residency 🌟

This project is fiscally sponsored by @artjewelryforum_org. taken in Brooklyn Metal Works by @brooklynmetalworks

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@materialsmithing Kerianne Quick confronts our complacency with gun violence in “Oh Well. Whatever. Nevermind.”

The exhibition at @brooklynmetalworks features large — but very light — neckpieces in leather, scarred by titanium “wounds.”

The title comes from @nirvana_official__ “Smells Like Teen Spirit.”

An installation hangs from the ceiling with 300 crosshair pins made of titanium.

Black shrouded “mirrors” of plexiglass and leather explore mourning traditions.

A beautifully understated and thought-provoking exhibition, through Nov. 8.

#contemporaryjewelry #notadaywithoutjewellery #jewelryassculpture #brooklynmetalworks #keriannequick taken in Brooklyn Metal Works by @brooklynmetalworks

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9 days ago

October at BKMW! 🍂

10/9: Bead Setting Workshop with Sergey Jivetin

10/9: Deadline to apply for the Resonance Residency

10/15-10/17: The Ethical Gem Fair Brooklyn returns, presented by the @ethicalgemsuppliers

10/20: Fall Session courses begin!

10/26-10/30: Gemstone Recutting and Repolishing with Justin K Prim

10/29: Faceting Open House with Justin K Prim

View all classes, workshops, and events on bkmetalworks.com 🌐 taken in Brooklyn Metal Works by @brooklynmetalworks

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The Ethical Gem Fair Brooklyn 2026 💎

October 15-17 | 10am-5pm | 5th floor of BKMW | Open to Trade
Presented by the ethical gem suppliers
Hosted by BKMW

This event is exclusively for trade, inviting trade members along with students and metalsmiths from Brooklyn Metal Works.

Educational Conversations | 4th floor of BKMW | Open to All
• 10/16 at 12pm: Gemstones from Women Miners of East Africa with Norbert Massay and Esther Ndeki Njunge
• 10/16 at 3pm: Sapphire Varieties in Australia & Sri-Lanka with Ian Boone and Janaka Abayawickrama
• 10/17 at 12pm: Paraiba Tourmaline from Ethiopia & Brazil with Brian Cook and Hewan Zewdi
• 10/17 at 3pm: Trade Nomenclature: Industry and Government Guidance with Jay Moncada and Eric Braunwart

The Ethical Gem Suppliers form a collective of gem dealers dedicated to fostering transparent supply chains that uplift artisanal mining and cutting communities worldwide. Vendors showing at this event include @anzagems, @ageretreasures, @capricorngems, @columbiagemhouse, @crowngems, @goldenrutilatedquartz, @perpetuumjewels.bling, and @virtu_gem.

Registrations are free, see the link in our bio to RSVP! 📝 by @brooklynmetalworks

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💎 Anonymous Brooklyn
📅 Exhibition 16–21 | Reception Sat, Nov 21
📍 @brooklynmetalworks | 640 Dean St, Brooklyn
💫 In Person | Exhibition

No names, just jewelry. All week, artists are invited to bring one piece to Brooklyn Metal Works and hang it on the gallery wall themselves — masked, anonymous, with nothing but a small nail and a hammer. Whoever hangs first gets first pick of placement, and the wall grows from there — over, under, wherever the next piece finds room. It's a self-directed accumulation that keeps shifting all week, building toward one night where the full wall comes together.

Artists can offer their piece for sale, and if it sells, the buyer is the only person who will ever know who made it.

Brooklyn Metal Works is a non-ferrous metal art studio built around shared workspace, hands-on classes, and an exhibition series that puts metalsmithing and jewelry artists in dialogue with one another — Anonymous Brooklyn is where that spirit shows up most.

Open to all artists — Installation runs Mon-Fri 11 AM-6 PM through Saturday, Nov 21 till 5 PM. Reception is Saturday, Nov. 22, 6-9 PM. More on this one in the weeks to come.

Photos by: @stvvvo

📲 Tap the link in our bio or in today's story to be notified of the full schedule release
#NYCJW26 #NYCJewelryWeek #JewelryForAll #thingstodoinbrooklyn #publicart People looking at an exhibition of jewelry pieces pinned to a silver wall. taken in Brooklyn Metal Works by @brooklynmetalworks

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Announcing the 2027 Resonance Residency Open Call for Applications! 📝

Brooklyn Metal Works’ first artist residency offers jewelry artists an opportunity to develop their studio practice while utilizing the unique advantages that come from being in New York City, an important hub of the contemporary jewelry scene. This 3-month residency will enable jewelers at every level of their career to expand their practice or create a new body of work. 💍

Artists in Residence Will Recieve:
• Semi private studio space on the educational floor of BKMW
• Unrestricted stipend of $300 per month
• $300 credit for use in the BKMW Tool Shop
• $600 credit for coursework at BKMW
• $500 stipend for an artist lecture
• Paid opportunity to instruct or assist a BKMW workshop
• Professional development opportunity
• Tier 1 membership at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM)
• Dual membership at the Brooklyn Museum

**The open call for the 2027 Resonance Residency will open on September 9th and close on October 9th, 2026. Applications will be accepted through CaFÉ.**

After launching the Resonance Residency fundraiser in December 2025, our community has contributed around 95% of our initial fundraising goal of $20,000 across open donations and contributions for Helen Drutt Gallery publications. We are extremely grateful to the BKMW community for their continued support! This fundraiser is fiscally sponsored by Art Jewelry Forum (AJF), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization established to advocate for the international field of contemporary art jewelry. @artjewelryforum_org

View application information at the link in our bio 🌐 taken in Brooklyn Metal Works by @brooklynmetalworks

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In The Gallery at Brooklyn Metal Works is please to announce Kerianne Quick | OH WELL, WHATEVER, NEVERMIND, an exhibition confronting the machinery of violence and the apathy that allows it to become ordinary.

Taking its title from a lyric in Nirvana’s Smells Like Teen Spirit, the exhibition brings together three distinct but interconnected series: OH WELL, body armor-inspired leather and titanium jewelry that transforms ballistic wounds into objects of adornment; WHATEVER, an installation of 300 titanium crosshair pins that implicates the wearer as both target and witness; and NEVERMIND, black-shrouded leather and plexiglass mirrors that turn reflection into an act of mourning, shame, and culpability. Together, the works ask what it means to protect, enhance, and repair the body in a culture that manufactures its destruction—and what it means to look away.

Join us for an opening reception on Saturday, September 26th, from 7-9pm!

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Kerianne Quick | OH WELL WHATEVER NEVERMIND
September 26th - November 8th, 2026
In The Gallery, 2nd Floor*
640 Dean Street, Brooklyn NY 11238

*Please note that this space is only accessible via stairs.

@materialsmithing taken in Brooklyn Metal Works by @brooklynmetalworks

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September at BKMW! 📚

Welcome back to the studio! Summer has come to a close - Late Summer classes are underway and we open our next exhibition In The Gallery with Kerianne Quick. Tasting Courses are available now and our Fall Session is open for registration.

September 22nd: Intro to Metalsmithing for Teens with Izadora Meares begins! Geared towards homeschooled high schoolers, this course introduces students to the fundamentals of metalworking through thoughtful design and technical skill development.

September 26th: Join us for the opening reception of Kerianne Quick | OH WELL WHATEVER NEVERMIND from 7:00-9:00pm. For her show In The Gallery, Quick confronts the machinery of violence—and the apathy that allows it to become ordinary.

Visit bkmetalworks.com for information on upcoming classes and events.

September 22nd: Intro to Metalsmithing for Teens with Izadora Meares begins! Geared towards homeschooled high schoolers, this course introduces students to the fundamentals of metalworking through thoughtful design and technical skill development.

September 26th: Join us for the opening reception of Kerianne Quick | OH WELL WHATEVER NEVERMIND from 7:00-9:00pm. For her show In The Gallery, Quick confronts the machinery of violence—and the apathy that allows it to become ordinary.

Fall Session courses are now open for registration, including Sweet, Savory, and Gravy: Spoons and Ladles with Brian Weissman. Open to beginners!

Enamel Pendant, Hoop Earring, and Silver Stacking Rings Tasting Courses are available now. taken in Brooklyn Metal Works by @brooklynmetalworks

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2 months ago

Senior BFA Metal student Mia Ferraro @4rtby_mia completed an internship this summer @brooklynmetalworks! While there, they worked extensively on this sample board of transparent enamel tiles, learned a great deal about clarity and mesh size with sifting transparent vitreous enamel, as well as experimenting with torch fired enamel applications with opaque vs transparent enamel. Mia also worked on studio maintenance and upkeep (cue the first photo 😅), and was able to work in the classroom as a teaching assistant (last photo is of student pieces made in the class Mia assisted).

“…I am grateful for the studio culture I was able to be a part of at Brooklyn Metal Works… My favorite skill that I developed this summer was my problem solving skills. I feel that I grew as a teacher and a student in my craft”
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Big thanks to BKMW for all you do to create space for others, and mentoring the next generation of metalsmiths. 🤘❤️
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#metalsmith #enamel #metalart by @brooklynmetalworks

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You need to learn to recut gemstones! If you’d like to learn, we have an upcoming class at @brooklynmetalworks from October 26-30 in Brooklyn, NY. Sign up on the Brookyln Metal Works site and learn to recut in our one week intensive, Gemstone Recutting and Repolishing. by @brooklynmetalworks

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We have one more Faceting Bootcamp with seats available this year. Join us in October at @brooklynmetalworks and spend two weeks learning everything you need to know about faceting stones. Sign up at https://www.bkmetalworks.com/faceting-bootcamp taken in Brooklyn Metal Works by @brooklynmetalworks

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A Duane Reade receipt gets rolled up and tucked into jewelry—very cool!

It’s part of the exhibition celebrating the 15th anniversary of @brooklynmetalworks — wow, what a milestone!

“Here, There and Everywhere” has work by 34 alumni. The guest juror is @barbaraparisgifford

Check it out until Aug. 30.

And let me know your favorite class or experience at @brooklynmetalworks

Mine is “Anonymous Brooklyn” every year during @nycjewelryweek

1. @kate_taylor_design “Reliquary for a Duane Reade receipt”

2. @materialsmithing

3. @lynnbatch

4. @laurafortunestudio

5. @instakatecusack @materialsmithing @amylemairestudio @the_flaire

6. @laurenkalman

7. And 8. @naamalevit

#contemporaryjewelry #notadaywithoutjewellery #jewelryassculpture #brooklynmetalworks taken in Brooklyn Metal Works by @brooklynmetalworks

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