Founded in 2012, Smith Shop is a dynamic craft-centric metalworking studio that produces functional and ornamental metalwork specializing in architectural ironwork and the custom fabrication of gold, silver, copper, brass, bronze, and steel. Smith Shop also produces limited production runs ranging from jewelry to architectural hardware. Our work has been recognized for excellence through numerous awards and by publications including Saveur, Food & Wine, Metropolis, Dwell, and American Craft. Our collaborative process utilizes the talents of two senior partners along with a committed group of metalsmiths and designers.

If you would like to work with us, drop us a line at info@smithshop.com.

**Gabriel Craig**
Co-Owner, Metalsmith
Gabriel has been a metalsmith for 22 years, starting his career as a jeweler and gradually becoming interested in larger and more varied metalworking techniques. Since devoting himself to blacksmithing in 2010, his work has primarily been dedicated to functional and decorative ironwork. Gabriel’s work is influenced by historical ornament and architecture and has been exhibited nationally including exhibitions at the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., The National Ornamental Metal Museum in Memphis, TN, and the Cameron Museum of Art in Wilmington, NC. In addition to his metalwork, Gabriel is a scholar of historic ironwork and has lectured throughout the country on the subject. He writes about craft, focusing on historic ironwork and craft’s cultural relevance and implications in the 21st century. His critical writing has appeared in prominent craft publications including Metalsmith, American Craft and Surface Design Journal. He is currently at work on a book about historic ironwork in Detroit. He has held artist residencies at the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Savannah College of Art and Design, and Warren Wilson College. Gabriel received his BFA in Metals/ Jewelry from Western Michigan University and his MFA in Jewelry and Metalworking from Virginia Commonwealth University.

Amy Weiks Co-Owner, MetalsmithAmy began her art career as a photographer before studying printmaking at the Glasgow School of Art in Glasgow, Scotland. In 2004 she discovered metalsmithing and never looked back. Amy’s innate and intuitive sense of form and composition along with her detail oriented nature help drive Smith Shop’s exacting standards of quality. Amy has shown her artwork nationally and internationally including exhibitions at the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft in Houston, TX, The Bellevue Arts Museum in Bellevue, WA, The Mint Museum in Charlotte, NC, Velvet da Vinci gallery in San Francisco, CA and Galerie Marzee in Nijmegen, Netherlands. Amy received her BFA from Western Michigan University and her MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art. — **Amy Weiks**
Co-Owner, Metalsmith
Amy began her art career studying photography. She took a break from the camera to study printmaking at the Glasgow School of Art in Scotland. In 2004 she discovered metalsmithing and never looked back. Like photography and printmaking, metalsmithing was also a medium steeped in technical processes, but working in metal allowed her to move into three-dimensions— creating new opportunities to explore form, volume, and function. Amy’s work dissects the visual language of utilitarian forms often seeking to imagine them in new poetic or whimsical iterations. Her innate sense of form and composition, her sensitivity to line quality, and deft skill with a hammer are the defining hallmarks of her work. Amy has shown her artwork nationally and internationally including exhibitions at the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft in Houston, TX, The Bellevue Arts Museum in Bellevue, WA, The Mint Museum in Charlotte, NC, Velvet da Vinci gallery in San Francisco, CA and Galerie Marzee in Nijmegen, Netherlands. Amy received her BFA from Western Michigan University and her MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art.

Samual Patmon
Apprentice Metalsmith

After careers in logistics and HVAC, Sam found his passion in metalworking. Since taking up blacksmithing 3 years ago he has worked diligently to become proficient. Sam also has a strong interest in machining, which has been self taught. He is a member of the Michigan Artist Blacksmith’s Association and has been an assistant in the iron studio at the Penland School of Crafts. His thirst for knowledge and enthusiasm for blacksmithing is contagious.