Magic of Metal

HATHAWAY-ZEPEDA GREW UP FASHIONING MAKE SHIFT necklaces and bracelets with wire salvaged from the family garage and beads picked off the street. She created her first piece of "hot" jewelry—made using a torch—as a Dartmouth undergrad. It was a simple, silver band ring, and she's been married to jewelry making ever since. "I always think of my jewelry as an experience," she says. "Does it jingle when you wear it? Is there a little piece you can spin while you're waiting for something? There are hidden, very small moments in my jewelry."

Now a seasoned artist with an M.F.A., she has returned to the roots of her jewelry-making career as artist-in-residence at Dartmouth's Donald Claflin Jewelry Studio. There, Hathaway- Zepeda works as a professional artist while helping undergrads create original work in the studio, teaching workshops, and presenting community and class lectures. "I am constantly inspired by the students," she says. "We have econ majors and studio artists alike coming to the studio with different goals, visions and experience levels. We all feed off each other."

This fall Hathaway-Zepeda is focusing her energy on Flame and File, a jewelry line of hammered silver. "Giving myself the restriction of hammered silver has pushed me to think about how creative I can be," she says. "I don't like to ground my jew- elry in recognizable objects. There is always more imagination within the abstract."

The College recently hired Hathaway-Zepeda for a second year as artist-in- residence. >»>

I have a very intimaterelationship with metal.I love moving it withhammers and forming itand soldering it."