CRYSTAL HARTMAN

Crystal Hartman is a multi-media artist and a jeweler. Her work has been shown at locations such as The National Palace of Culture (Sofia, Bulgaria), the Center for Contemporary Culture (Barcelona, Spain), and The Lill Street Art Gallery (Chicago, Illinois). Raised behind the jewelers bench, she received her BFA for Printmaking, focusing on Intaglio Etching and Lithography, from The University of Colorado at Boulder. Recipient of a UROP Grant, she studied Femininity in Argentina with portraiture and performance based collecting of small interviews and perspectives throughout the country. She filmed skateboarding with Null Skateboards in Spain, and studied color through public art and cultural craft in Chaing Mai, Thailand. She is inspired by travel, storytelling and the natural world, her work -large and small- opens conversations within and between disparate perspectives.