Iris Eichenberg and Jimena Ríos

Iris Eichenberg is known as an ambassador for her field, and for her teaching, lectures, and workshops at renowned art schools and programs. She heads the Metalsmithing Department at the Cranbrook Academy of Art, in Bloomfield Hills, MI. Her work is in the collections of the Cooper-Hewitt, the Museum of Arts and Design, the Rijksmuseum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Stedelijk Museum, Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim, the Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and held by private foundations including the Stichting Francoise van den Bosch and the Rotasa Foundation. Eichenberg won the 2021 Susan Beech Mid-Career Artist Grant, and has received awards from the Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture, the Amsterdam Fund for the Arts, the Herbert Hofmann Prize, the Gerrit Rietveld Academy Award, and the European Ceramic Center in Den Bosch.

Jimena Ríos lives and works in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She studied jewelry at the Escola Massana (Barcelona, Spain). She is finishing a MA in Curatorial Studies at UNTREF (Buenos Aires, Argentina). In 2013 she founded Taller Eloi, a jewelry school in Buenos Aires. She works as an educator, curator, and editor. Together with Iris Eichenberg, she organized the Hand Medal Project.