Bio
John Medwedeff, an expat Tennessean, is a full time artist blacksmith, who has been producing monumental site-specific public sculpture, sculptural fountains, architectural ironwork, lighting, and furniture for over 30 years. At 19 he began a three-year blacksmithing apprenticeship with Jim Wallace at the Metal Museum in Memphis, TN, and afterward earned his master of fine arts degree in blacksmithing from Southern Illinois University Carbondale. He opened Medwedeff Forge & Design in 1988. Concurrent with his studio work, John has curated exhibitions, taught sculpture and blacksmithing workshops at numerous craft schools, lectured at universities and symposia across the country, and serves on the Metal Museum's Board of Trustees.