Rhea Vedro

Biography

Rhea Vedro leads fine metals instruction in The Merton C. Flemings Materials Processing Laboratory. Her courses include 3.093 (Metalsmithing: Objects and Power),  3.095 (Introduction to Metalsmithing), and MIT Morningside Academy for Design DesignPlus seminars.

Vedro is a metalsmith creating at the intersection of art, materiality, and healing. Her research explores metalsmithing as a cultural signifier of values, power, and protection across belief systems and time. Trained first as a jeweler, she now focuses on hollow-form steel sculpture in her studio practice.
 
Before joining DMSE, Vedro was a Boston Public Art Triennial Accelerator Fellow and served as director of community engagement at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Vedro taught metalsmithing at University of Wisconsin-Madison and State University of New York New Paltz. Her project portfolio includes the City of Boston Mayor’s Office of Arts + Culture, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Artisans Asylum, North Bennet Street School, Vizcaya Museum, Queens Museum, The New York City Parks Foundation, and museums, schools, and creative community spaces throughout the Americas. Vedro holds an MFA in metalsmithing from SUNY New Paltz. When she’s not working, Rhea can be found in her studio, garden, and the ocean.