I've always loved making and creating, spending most of my childhood covered in finger paint and glue, while surrounded by pipe cleaners, googly eyes and construction paper. I fell in love with metal while studying art at East Carolina University in Greenville, NC. After two somewhat disastrous semesters of ceramics classes, my professor suggested that I take a metals course. I hadn't considered the media before, but decided to give it a try. The first time I picked up the hammer, I was hooked and haven't looked back since.
After school I worked as an apprentice to a bench jeweler repairing jewelry and sizing rings. After that opportunity ended, I was blown off course and found my self stuck in a retail management job that I was not at all suited for. Making jewelry, clothing and painting in my free time was a much needed creative escape, and while I had sold a few pieces at a couple of stores and galleries in my hometown, I hadn't seriously pursued my passion.
By 2006 my dissatisfaction with my job had grown and I found the drive I needed to start a part time business. I set up a tiny workspace in our one bedroom apartment, opened up an Etsy shop and applied to a local craft show. While I had vague dreams of making a little extra money and filling the void in my soul, I could not imagine that the course of my life had just changed.
Over the years Metamorphosis Metals grew and I was able to work less and less hours at my day job, until eventually making {jewelry, http://metamorph.etsy.com} and supplies became my day job. I moved the studio out of the apartment in 2010 and into a space in The Carter Building in downtown Raleigh. {14 Glenwood Ave, Studio 24} My husband, Jackey, joined the team in 2012 and now many of the supply components.