found: wikipedia.org, 8 December 2017(Kiff Slemmons (born 1944) is a contemporary American metalsmith. She received her B.A. in Art and French at the University of Iowa, but is primarily known for her career in jewelry and metals. Slemmons currently resides in Chicago, Illinois. Kiff Slemmons was born in Maxton, North Carolina but grew up in Iowa. In 1962 she enrolled in Scripps College in Claremont, California for comparative literature. She later attended the Sorbonne in Paris, France. She attended an eight-week metals program in Japan through Parsons The New School for Design in 1983. Since 2000, Slemmons has been recognized for her work with Mexican artists making and designing paper jewelry, resulting in colorful and intricate pieces using traditional bead-making techniques and dyes from indigenous plants)
