The Breakfast Series is a regular series from the MIT Women's League.  Women in the MIT community are invited to join us to hear from women faculty and administrators explore the role of women in the academy, sharing the pathways their professional lives have taken — the people and events that have influenced their direction. A full plated breakfast will be served, prepared by Chef Patrick Campbell.

Rhea Vedro leads fine metals instruction in The Merton C. Flemings Materials Processing Laboratory 4-006. Her courses include 3.093 Metalsmithing: Objects and Power, 3.095 Introduction to Metalsmithing, and MIT Morningside Academy for Design DesignPlus seminars. Vedro is a metalsmith creating at the intersection of art, materiality and healing. Her research explores metalsmithing as a cultural signifier of values, power and protection across belief-systems and time. Trained first as a jeweler, her current studio practice is primarily hollow-form steel sculpture. Before joining DMSE, Vedro was a Boston Public Art Triennial Accelerator Fellow and served as Director of Community Engagement with the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Vedro taught metalsmithing at UW-Madison and SUNY New Paltz. Her project portfolio includes the City of Boston Mayor's Office of Arts + Culture, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Artisans Asylum, North Bennet Street School, Vizcaya Museum, Queens Museum, The New York City Parks Foundation, and museums, schools, and creative community spaces throughout the Americas. Vedro holds an MFA in Metalsmithing from SUNY New Paltz.

Space is limited. Please email kbennett@mit.edu to RSVP, and let us know if you have any dietary restrictions.