Jennifer Crupi, born in Red Bank, NJ in 1973, received her BFA from The Cooper Union School of Art and her MFA from SUNY, The College at New Paltz. She has been an exhibiting artist since 1994 and her work has been shown in over forty national and international exhibitions—including exhibits at the Museum of Arts and Design, New York City, Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston and the Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI. She received a Peter S. Reed Foundation Artist Grant in 2010 and a New Jersey State Council of the Arts Individual Artist Grant in 2005. Her work has been published in 500 Necklaces and 500 Brooches by Lark Books and Metalsmith Magazine, among others. In addition to her art-making, Jennifer is Associate Professor at Kean University, Union, NJ where she has taught and headed the Metals program since 1999. She currently resides and maintains a studio in Oceanport, NJ.