I'm an Oregon native with a double major in sculpture and graphic design from Portland State University. I fell in love with steel when taking my first welding class there in 2003. As Indio Metal Arts, created in 2012, I design and build steel freestanding fine art sculpture, furniture, landscape elements and trellises. Commissions are welcome.

I use as much salvaged material as possible from scrap yards around the state. Scrap has an imbedded history and character that folds into each piece I build. When inspired by these unique shapes the results are one of a kind.

I believe all objects should be well designed, beautiful and built to last. I keep this in mind no matter what steel object I'm welding in the studio, whether functional or decorative.

Mini Documentary about my life and work created by Emma Inge.

Actively teaching in SE Portland. Contact for scheduling.

Commissions welcome.

GALLERIES

• Dragonfire Gallery
• Gallery 408
• Green Space Designs
• Plural Collective
• Rain Spark Gallery 
• Sidestreet Arts
• Thicket

PUBLIC ART

• Auburn’s Downtown Sculpture Gallery, Knowing Descendant, 2026-2027
• Milwaukie City Hall Sculpture Garden, Flock, 2025-2027
• Auburn’s Downtown Sculpture Gallery, Columbia Basalt Column, 2025-2026
• Auburn’s Downtown Sculpture Gallery, Crescent, 2024-2025 (install September 2024)
• Gallery Without Walls in downtown Lake Oswego, Knowing Descendant, 2024-2026 (install August 2024)
• Hoffman Center of the Arts, Manzanita Moongate, permanent collection, 2023
• Happy Valley City Hall, Flock, 2023-2025
• Auburn’s Downtown Sculpture Gallery, Knowing, 2021-2023
• Oregon Society of Artists, Crescent, May – August 2022
• Milwaukie City Hall Sculpture Garden, Crescent, 2019-2021

ART FESTIVALS & EXHIBITIONS

• Portland Open Studios, Lake Oswego Open Studios, Gathering of the Guilds, Lake Oswego Festival of the Arts, Hoffman Center for the Arts, Bellevue Botanical Gardens, Wild Arts Festival, Salem Art Show & Festival, Sorticulture, Cracked Pots, Local 14, Portland Home & Garden, Hortlandia and Celebration of Creativity. See ‘events’ tab for full listing.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

• The Arts Centered, Celebration of Sculpture, May 5th-June 5th, 2026
• Sidestreet Arts, Re-Turn, November 6th-29th, 2025
• Ford Gallery, Club V, March 1st-April 5th, 2024
• Alberta Street Gallery, “Making Paradise”, May 30th-June 25th 2024
• Newport Visual Arts Center, “Into the Depths”, PNWS group, Newport, Oregon, June-August 2023
• Alberta Street Gallery, Steel & Fiber, July 27th – August 28th, 2023
• Sidestreet Arts, Another Realm, October 6th – 30th, 2022
• Sherwood Center for the Arts, Metal Art Exhibit, June 2nd – August 2nd, 2021
• Alberta Street Gallery, Autumn Invitational, October 1st – 25th, 2020
• Guardino Gallery, Chayo Wilson collaborations, “When Metal Meets Clay”, October 3st -November 24th, 2019.
• ArtReach Gallery, “Making Space”, PNWS & NWSSA, October 12th-15th, 2019.
• Multnomah Art Center, “Unmatched Pairs”, PNWS group, Portland, Oregon, September 2019.
• Lake Oswego Reads, Lakewood Center for the Arts then traveling state wide, February – November 2019
• The C.A.V.E., “Alchemy in 3D”, PNWS group, Vancouver, Washington, April 2018.
• Newport Visual Arts Center, “Variety of Visions”, PNWS group, Newport, Oregon, October 2017.

RESIDENCY

• Frogwood Artists’ Collaborative, May 21st-27th 2023, Sponsorship by CMAG

AWARDS

• Oregon Arts Commission, Career Opportunity Grant, May 2023, Frogwood Collaborative

TOURS

• Portland Modern Home 2019
• Association of Landscape Designers Tour 2016 & 2019

MEMBER

• Pacific Northwest Sculptors Guild: current member. Former board member holding treasurer, secretary and social media positions
• Creative Metal Arts Guild: current member. Former Spring Show Steering Committee member holding treasury and sponsorship positions

PRESS

• CCC News: Columbia Community Connection, Little Art City Strikes Again: Collaboration to bring new display to downtown, by Sarah Cook. This describes the new signage for the Dalles Art Center which I designed and the Community College’s metal fabrication department built, February 7th, 2022.
• Sherwood Gazette, ‘Metal artists to be featured at gallery’, by Leah Burgess, page 9, June 2021, Vol. 26, Issue 6.
• Portland Tribune, Sculpture Livens Up Milwaukie City Hall, by Ellen Spitaleri, page A17, November 12, 2019.
• The Bee, Open Studios Tour, page 15, February 2019, Vol 113, Issue 6.
• Metalsmith Magazine, Portland Oregon: A River Runs Through it, by Judy Wagonfeld, Page 16, Volume 38 No. 2, 2018. This article is an expose on the Portland metal art scene. I was among those interviewed and quoted.