Baker Artist Portfolios

Luci Jockel is an educator and artist who seeks reconnection with flora and fauna through wearable and sculptural mementos. Using unearthed materials, such as animal remains, stone and metal, the artist and viewer become physically tied to their surroundings and asked to remember their dependence on the earth.

Luci received a M.F.A from Rhode Island School of Design in Jewelry and Metalsmithing, 2016 and a B.F.A. from Indiana University of Pennsylvania in Jewelry and Ceramics, 2014. She was the recipient of the MSAC Grants for Artists, 2024, SNAG’s Educational Endowment Scholarship, 2021 and American Craft Council Emerging Voices Award in 2019. She has exhibited her work both nationally and internationally at venues such as Galerie Handwerk, R&Company and RISD Museum. Luci has curated exhibitions at Baltimore Jewelry Center, Towson University and as part of JV Collective- a cohort of seven art jewelers. She actively teaches workshops at craft schools, such as Brooklyn Metal Works, Baltimore Jewelry Center and Peters Valley School of Craft. Luci maintains a studio practice in Baltimore, MD where she holds the position of Metalsmithing & Jewelry Lecturer and Area Coordinator at Towson University. Her work is in the collections of the Smithsonian's Renwick Gallery, RISD Museum, Galerie Marzee and ArtYard and is represented by Gallery Loupe in Montclair, NJ.