Shannon Kurzyniec, US

Shannon Kurzyniec received her BFA from Wayne State University, Detroit, MI concentrating in Metalsmithing. She is a second year in the Craft/Material Studies program exploring new ways of expressing her take on the personal and social impacts by the world of prescriptions on the human condition.

“How do I inherit something? What can one inherit? Do I have a choice in what I inherit from my parents? One may inherit a piece of jewelry from their parents or ancestors while others inherit their eye color. But the truth is we inherit more than just genetic traits or objects from our parents or ancestors we also inherit habits. These inheritances depict the pathway of the genetic traits and their expression from one to another generation that will continue until we begin to break them”.