Margo Csipő (USA) is a jeweler, illustrator, educator, and writer based in Baltimore, where she teaches at the Baltimore Jewelry Center. Her practice investigates jewelry and masks as vessels to be emptied and filled by both creator and wearer, physically and metaphorically. Csipő’s work is fabrication-intensive and highly illustrative, employing the ancient scrimshaw technique, in which images are meticulously scribed or engraved into materials such as mother-of-pearl, bone, and amber. Through sequential imagery, she explores themes of personal myth and transformation.
Csipő’s work has been exhibited internationally, including at SCHMUCK, and has been featured in Metalsmith Magazine and Current Obsession. She is the recipient of the prestigious Preziosa Young award and was a finalist for Art Jewelry Forum’s Young Artist Award in 2024. In addition to her jewelry practice she works at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) as a Fabrications Technician.
