Join MAD artist-educator Alayna Wiley for a jewelry workshop inspired by the exhibition Douriean Fletcher: Jewelry of the Afrofuture. Using soft metals such as aluminum and copper, participants will emboss, twist and bend pliable metal to transform the materials into unique jewelry pendants. 

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Alayna Wiley is a teaching artist at the Museum of Arts and Design. Her goal for art education is to build self-knowledge through creative expression. As a ceramic, paper, and textile designer, she offers strategies for design based on approaching materiality with curiosity. With all ages, she seeks to inspire experimentation and play in order to define our own meaning within the infinite possibilities of form. Wiley holds a Master’s in Art Business from Sotheby’s Institute of Art as well as a Bachelor’s in Visual Art and a concentration in Anthropology from Oberlin College. She continued her independent studies at Harvard, The Art Institute of Chicago at Oxbow, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Penland School of Craft, and Haystack Mountain School of Craft. To learn traditional crafts from master artisans, Alayna has traveled to China, India, Spain, and Chile. Her work is featured in the Koan Collection in New York as well as on her website at alaynawiley.nyc.