Photo by Jess Valenza
EXHIBITIONS
Buckle Up Buttercup, Sun + Dust Gallery, Santa Fe, NM. 2025
Under Fire 5, Enamel Guild Northeast, Online Exhibition. 2025.
Plus One Collective, Bucharest, Romania. Florence, Italy. Chapel Hill, NC. 2025.
Making Matters, Peters Valley School of Craft, Layton, NJ. 2022-2025.
2024 Instructor Exhibition, Appalachian Center for Craft, Smithville, TN, 2024.
Arrowmont Instructor Exhibition, Arrowmont School of Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN, 2024-2025.
Southern Highland Craft Guild Exhibition, Asheville, NC, 2024.
Memento Mori, Night Shift Collective, Philadelphia, PA, 2023.
Everybody’s Bolos, The University of North Texas, Fort Worth, TX, 2024-2025
We Are Here, The Metal Museum, Memphis Tennessee, 2023.
Under Fire 4, Enamel Guild Northeast, Online Exhibition, 2022.
A Tender Presence, Spectral Matter, Gallery 2052 IL, Alamas Gallery VA, Penland Gallery NC, 2022
Alchemy6, The Enamelist Society Juried Student Exhibition, Arrowmont School Of Crafts, Gatlinburg TN, 2022
Material Alchemy: Metal and Color, ATHICA, Georgia, 2022.
Voltage: The Power of Contemporary Jewelry, Society of North American Goldsmiths, Online.
WE ARE SNAG: Anthology 2021, Society of North American Goldsmiths, Online Exhibition.
Forest Gods, BFA Solo Exhibition, Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Philadelphia PA. 2021
Under Fire 3, Enamel Guild North East, 2020
Dream Machine Exhibition, New York City Jewelry Week, 2020
In School Suspension, New York City Jewelry Week, JV Collective, 2020
Slippery Subversive, East Carolina University, 2019
Common Threads, Baltimore Jewelry Center, 2019
Dream Machine Exhibition, New York City Jewelry Week, 2019
Wyatt NP is a metalsmith, jeweler and enamelist working and living out of Maine. He grew up in a small rural town in New Jersey, working with horses from a young age while participating in FFA, 4H within his small agricultural community. Wyatt received his BFA at Tyler School of Art and Architecture in Metalsmithing, Jewelry, and CAD CAM design in 2021. Wyatt is currently the Fine Metals Studio Technician at Maine College of Art and Design managing their studio, operations and equipment repair.
As a maker and craftsperson, farming and agriculture provided Wyatt with a strong foundation with the type of work that he now makes in his practice. He has a history of agricultural focused careers, having worked as a blacksmith and a farrier, as well as in livestock management while also pursuing more craft focused endeavors in metals and jewelry. In his own work NP primarily makes belt buckles, with a deep appreciation for motifs around agriculture, the outdoors and fishing. NP is an avid outdoorsman who loves fishing, hiking, camping and is currently planning on taking some longer backpacking trips with his partner next summer. When he’s not in the studio enameling or working on a piece you can usually find him out in his fishing kayak on one of Maine’s many lakes, ponds or rivers.
FURTHER EXPERIENCE
Fine Metals Studio Coordinator Maine College of Art and Design, 2025-Present
Fine Metals Studio Coordinator Peters Valley School Craft, 2023-2024
Studio Assistant, Penland School of Craft Session 5, 2023.
Fine Metals Studio Assistant, Peters Valley School of Craft, 2022
Artist In Residence, Peters Valley School of Craft, 2021
Society of Inclusive Blacksmiths, Mentee Program, 2021
Bench View 2023