As a third generation native to Phoenix, AZ, young Stacy Eden's world was very small. Aside from soccer tournaments and camping trips she didn’t get to experience much of what the world had to offer. She fled the city for the small mountain town of Flagstaff achieving her BA in English with hopes of world travel and education she grew tired of spending her days reading and writing lengthy structured papers.
She started taking art classes; just one each semester to keep her sanity. It was an avenue through which she could immerse herself in a different beautiful place every day. Two semesters short of graduating she secured a spot in the very crowded ‘Intro to Jewelry’ class and was immediately hooked. She couldn’t wait for the metalworking studio to open each morning and trained to host open studio time. This allowed her to spend extra hours bringing to life the sketches that would wake her up at night. Fitting, as she would often fall asleep with a sketchbook and pencil next to her bed.
It's in her blood. Her grandfather is one of the highest rated welders in the world. The debut line T R A V E L was inspired by a two month stay with a Costa Rican family. Experiencing the dirty and dangerous cities, the serene beach towns and the relentlessly positive and poverty stricken people resulted in a gritty yet whimsical line of sterling silver and bronze jewelry. All the pieces in T R A V E L are named after places Stacy has been or the places she wants to experience in order to expand herself as an artist and a humanitarian.
Her inspiration is momentum; conceptual and physical. The transience of people and cultures and the flux of nature and our bodies are evident in every piece she creates.
“Step on the gas and let out the clutch” is what she thinks about every time she is sculpting a piece of jewelry and wonders: is this too abstract; too much; too different? Somehow the answer is always no.
