Teri Blond is primarily a metals artist, but she works in many other mediums. Her work has been featured in books and museums, including permanent collections. She currently works as a project manager for a notable general contractor and has taught for many years in the Metals Department at the SouthWest School of Art and Craft (SSAC) in San Antonio, Texas.

In Her Own Words

I started making jewelry out of recycled objects at the age of twelve. Years later I was in Tanzania. It was an exciting trip. I had seen my first elephant, hippo, and leopard in the wild, and even a black mamba that our guide had grabbed by the tail, spun in the air, hit on the ground and knocked out.

In the village I ran across a very attractive mud hair tribesman. He wore an arrow necklace fashioned from a printed steel can that cut into his skin and stood straight out from his neck. Through a translator I traded a pair of mirrored sunglasses and some copper wire for the necklace. His mother made the trade, cutting the necklace off him. Oops – he pulled his spear on me! But we were okay in the end; she promised to make him something new. This was my first exposure to printed tin and aluminum jewelry. I wish I knew where that piece was. But I did find the spear the man pulled on me. His mom traded that for a battery operated radio.

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To learn more about the artist and see more examples of her work, please visit her online gallery at teriblond.com.

Latest Show

An Element of Surprise: Artists Working with Tin
Edwardsville Art Center, September 3, 2010 – October 8, 2010
University of Montana, Bozeman, November 29, 2010 through December 17, 2010

Museum Exhibitions

• 2003: Planting, Potting and Pruning: Artists and the Cultivated Landscape, Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI
• 2002: Going to the Dogs: Man’s Best Friend as Seen by Artists, Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI 
2001: Once Upon a Time: Artists Examine Fairy Tales, Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI
• 2000: Who Knows Where or When: Artists Interpret Geography and Time, Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, 
Racine, WI
• 1999: The End Is Near: Artists Look at the Twentieth Century, Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI
• 1998: Dress Up! Artists Address Clothing and Self Adornment, Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI
• 1997: Food Glorious Food: Artists and Eating, Charles A Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI
• 1995-97: DoubleNision, Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI and touring museums including Little 
Rock, Memphis and Minneapolis
• 1994: The Object Redux, Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts

Museum Permanent Collections

• 1997: “Beetle Cross”, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, The College at New Paltz, New York, NY
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1995: “Miss Moss’s Hoedown”, Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI
• 1995: “Guitar Girl”, Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI
• 1995: “Play the Lord, Cross the Board”, collaboration with Bob Ebendorf & John Grant, Charles A. Wustum Museum 
of Fine Arts, Racine, WI

Photos of Work Featured in Books

• 2004: RINGS, Marthe Le Van
• 2003: METAL EMBOSSING, by Yolanda Carranza Valle
• 2001: COLOR ON METAL, by Tim McCreight and Nicole Bsullak
• 1999: THE METALSMITH’S BOOK OF BOXES AND LOCKETS, by Tim McCreight
• 1996: THE FINE ART OF THE TIN CAN, by Maryland photographer, Bobby Hansson

Showings

• 2010: Jackson Ranch, Contemporary Art Month, One Man Show, San Antonio, Texas
• 2006: CC Ranch Exhibition, San Antonio, Tx
• 2004: RAC, San Antonio, Texas
• 2003: Charmed Lives, Facere Jewelry Art Gallery, Seattle WA
• 2002: All School Exhibition, Southwest School of Art & Craft, San Antonio, TX
• 2001: Telling Tales: Contemporary Narrative Teapots, Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO; Color on Metal, OXOXO Gallery, 
Baltimore, MD; Botanica, OXOXO Gallery, Baltimore, MD
• 2000: Attitude and Action, a group Exhibition of American Figurative Jewelry, The Atrium Gallery, The University of 
Birmingham, Birmingham, England, opening with the Conference of the Association for Contemporary Jewelry and 
DESIGNyard, Dublin, Ireland
• 1999: Beacons for the Millennium, The Nancy Sachs Gallery, St. Louis, MO, with the 1999 Society of North American 
Goldsmiths Conference
• 1998: BOLO! Artables Gallery, Houston, TX
• 1997: Hard Evidence, The Southwest Craft Center, San Antonio, TX; From the Trash Can to the Bank Vault, 
Phenomenon Gallery, Richmond VA; Tin Can Alley, America * Oh Yes!, Washington, DC
• 1996-97: Tin Can Alley, America * Oh Yes!, Hilton Head Island, SC
• 1996: Endeavors 8, The Southwest Craft Center, San Antonio, TX; the FINE ART of the TIN CAN, OXOXO Gallery, 
Baltimore, MD
• 1995: Double/Vision, Thomas Mann/Gallery 110, New Orleans, LA, with the 1995 Society of North American 
Goldsmiths Conference; Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO; Artables Gallery, Houston, TX; Hobe Sound Jewelers 
Contemporary Gallery, Hobe Sound, FL; Milagros Contemporary Art, San Antonio, TX