Phillip Baldwin

Phillip Baldwin, a second generation craftsman, started working in hot forged steel in 1967. Over the next 10 years, he learned the basic techniques of ironwork and entered the graduate metalsmithing program at Southern Illinois University (SIU) in 1977, graduating with an MFA degree in 1979. Upon leaving SIU, he was a resident artist for two years at the Oregon School of Arts and Crafts in Portland. In 1983, he formed Shining Wave Metals, a firm engaged in the commercial manufacture of exotic metals for the art metal field.

Baldwin’s work covers a wide range of forms from tools to architectural metalwork, knives, and jewelry. An affiliate faculty member of the University of Washington, Seattle, he maintains a studio and lives in Snohomish County, western Washington state. Baldwin has conducted numerous workshops around the nation at leading craft schools: Penland, Oregon School of Arts and Crafts, Arrowmont School of Crafts, Alfred University and at prominent national and regional conferences.

[Sources: SeattleMetalsGuild.org, www.artinititaves.com, ganoskin.com]