A scholarship helps Eleanna Feldman 25 JM find the community that drives and inspires her.
A World of Possibilities Each summer, Eleanna Feldman 25 JM makes at least one piece of jewelry that she can wear on the first day of class. For the fall of 2023, the Montclair, NJ native created a choker out of many almost identical curvilinear metal pieces that she cut out with a saw and filed by hand. The choker is a complex and arresting piece that demonstrates her skillful making, and Feldman laughs when she notes that if she were in the Jewelry + Metalsmithing (J+M) department’s Metcalf Building studios rather than her attic studio at home, there is a tool—the waterjet—that could cut out the pieces “literally in five seconds.”
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