Kiff Slemmons

Kiff Slemmons received a Bachelor of Arts in Art and French from the University of Iowa in 1968. Self-taught as a metalsmith she began making jewelry in the 1970s. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally including a mid-career retrospective at the Palo Alto Art Center, California in 2000. Her work can be found in numerous museum collections, including the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Arts and Design, New York, the Mint Museum, North Carolina and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Recently she has been collaborating with artisans at Arte Papel in Oaxaca, Mexico to create paper jewelry using indigenous plants and fibers.