JEN PAPE

Cluster Contemporary Jewellery Exhibitor 2022

Supported Flight in Sassy Pink

Supported Flight in Radiant Orange

Supported Flight in Chartruese

A Token of Being

Jen Pape [Washington, DC, USA] is a Washington, DC area based artist and entrepreneur. With a BA in Psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison; certifications in Auricular Energetics, Yoga Teaching, and iRest Yoga Nidra; metalsmithing education from Baltimore Jewelry Center, Montgomery College, Glen Echo Arts, and UW-Madison; and a deeply embedded meditation practice based in Wisdom Teachings and esoteric studies. Their work has been featured in the Baltimore Jewelry Center, Femme Fatale, Shop Made in DC, Circle Yoga, BunBun’s Closet, The Stew, Stroll Magazine, and a plethora of local art markets.

Dropping into Being

Med. Favorite Form in Radiant Orange

Med. Favorite Form in Rose

Med. Favorite Form in Teal

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Utilizing jewelry as one way we creatively engage the physical world around us, they ask – where does our identity lie and how are we able to express our unique keynotes? A perpetual process of exploring how expansive concepts may be simplified, destroyed, rebuilt, expanded upon, whilst shining light on their purest essence.

Ratio Squared

A Divine One

Gold Issue Open Wings

Bow III

Gold Issue II Tiny Favorite Form

Ratio Ring

I anchor life’s energetic principles into the physical. Creating based on impulses of meditative contemplations, collaborative mental work, and engaged emotional intelligence. Each design serves as an invitation to participate in exploration of our individual nature conjunct with our inherent group nature - the fractals within the whole, The One and the many. The work poses a series of musings: In what ways might we experience delight in discovery? How might self expression foster fantastic, inspired connectivity? In what ways might simplicity make sense of our complex individuality in the wholeness of humanity? I create steel and powder coated jewelry that pairs structural minimalism with saturated colors - as a means to inspire curiosity, joy, delight, clarity in expression. I carve, destroy, rebuild, and refine wax to cast in sterling silver as more localized expressions of the same thought forms. Leaning boldly into our individuality whilst fully honoring our group nature. Simultaneously unique whilst completely the same. These symbols hold deep value and are also completely meaningless. Echoing the tension of our existence.

Calm Connections

Infinite Creative

In Motion of Sunshine