Re-Formed is an 5-week residency designed for artists working in the jewelry arts who want to dive deeper into their artistic practice while in community with others.
Re-Formed:
Artists In Residence
OJ Johnson is an multidisciplinary artist from Idaho now based in San Francisco, CA. Their work blends playfulness, movement, and wearability through various mediums while favoring silver. Growing into their queerness while being raised within the teachings of the Catholic Church has been a recurring theme of exploration in their work. Drawing inspiration from architecture, natural landscape, dreams, and memory, OJ continues to use their surroundings and experiences to inform their practice in new ways.
In 2024, they graduated with a BFA in Visual Arts, with an emphasis in Sculpture and Art Jewelry & Metalsmithing from Boise State University. Throughout their time in Idaho, they were deeply embedded in the arts community, working alongside various designers and artists, organizing events through the Backyard Artists and Boise State University. During these years, they were also able to spend time at Penland School of Craft learning and assisting in the small metals studio. After graduating, they were selected to be an intern for the Design and Build program- creating public art sculptures for the Museum of Outdoor Arts. Since moving to the Bay, OJ has begun working at the Museum of Modern Art as a preparator, fabricator, and frame builder alongside their own jewelry practice. They can often be found grazing the streets and trails of the bay for new objects and shapes.
OJ Johnson
Jiordi Rosales
Jiordi Rosales is an artist and fire practitioner of Northern Mexican and Jewish decent based in Stewarts Point, CA where he co-convenes the School for Inclement Weather. His current season of work is tensioned between the crafting of metal artifacts through his studio practice, and the rematriation of cultural fire back to Kashia Territory / Sonoma-Mendocino Coastal Range through his role as a California State Burn Boss (CARX). The two practices are dialectically linked between one another. To think of fire cycles in a redwood forest as a process of annealing, of softening a place with heat so that it can be shaped with care and attention, in repetition. To see a piece of metal as the mountain it came from. Neither metal nor forest is ever complete; they can always be reheated, always be renewed.
Before transitioning to metals, Jiordi spent nine years as a luthier. He apprenticed at age 14 under Harry Fleishman in California, U.S., then went on to study at Summit School of Lutherie in B.C., Canada, under Henner Hagenlocher in Granada, Spain, and returned to California to work in the shop of Tom Ribbecke. Jiordi holds an MA in Ecology and Spirituality from the University of Wales, and has studied metalwork at Penland School of Craft with Adam Whitney and at Aoyama School of Jewelry and Metalsmithing under Kenji Io, Koichi Io, Mariko Sumioka and Wataru Yamazaki in Tokyo, Japan. He now works out of his own Studio at SFIW and primarily collaborates with Dancing with Mountains and S.O.U.R.C.E. Studio.