Jolynn is an artist and educator originally from Youngstown, Ohio.  She makes jewelry and prints highly influenced by the relationships she observes between mundane marks and time: water rings from a coffee cup, dust settling on a surface. Jolynn conducts extensive material research to understand how metals, alloys, graphite, paper, and other materials can be manipulated to communicate these ideas. She works with silver and silver alloys, using their ability to tarnish at different rates to create work that changes over time. She then files silver into "dust" to reference the way dust settles around objects. Jolynn carves molds out of graphite and sinter silver to preserve the dust. (The sintering process makes a powdered material coalesce into a porous mass.) She also creates dust prints where she hand emboss silver filings into paper. In time, the silver will oxidize, and the image will darken. Jolynn lives in Vermont where she pursues a full-time studio practice and teaches out of her studio.