Anna Koplik

Through her collection of whimsical and modern hand-forged spoons, artist Anna Koplik displays her skill as a blacksmith and metalsmith. Koplik’s spoons all begin as rough bars of metal, which are then heated and forged to shape with a hammer and anvil. Her work focuses on accuracy in forging, highlighting the refinement and delicacy possible in metalwork, while also playing with the limits of functionality.

Koplik graduated with a BFA in Jewelry from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY where she discovered her love for metalwork and forging. After graduating, Koplik shifted her focus to blacksmithing and began traveling, working at crafts schools and as a journeyman architectural smith, and teaching blacksmithing workshops. She has a passion for educating and showing beginner smiths the many different possibilities blacksmithing has to offer. Her personal work focuses mainly on tool and utensil making, and combining functionality with a refined, delicate aesthetic.

Koplik has worked at Peters Valley School of Craft, Atlas Forge, Touchstone Center for Crafts, Spirit Ironworks, Center for Metal Arts, Davis Metalsmiths, Caleb Kullman Studio, Michael Bondi Metal Design, and MDO Welding and Fabrication. She has taught at a variety of craft schools, including Penland School of Crafts, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, and John C. Campbell Folk School.