Born in 1962 in Camden, New Jersey, Myra Mimlitsch-Gray is a metalsmith and educator. Mimlitsch-Gray was first exposed to metalwork in a jewelry class she took while attending a Carnegie Mellon College summer program for high schoolers. She continued to explore the material throughout her BFA studies at Philadelphia College of Art and went on to complete her MFA at Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1986. Inspired by an interest in the history of her field and the transitory quality of metal as a material, Mimlitsch-Gray creates a wide variety of objects and has embraced a conceptual approach to her medium. She is a professor at the State University of New York at New Paltz, and she was named master metalsmith by the Metal Museum in Memphis, Tennessee, in 2014. Additional accomplishments include solo exhibitions at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art (2016), the Wexler Gallery (2009), and an artist residency with the Kohler Company’s Arts/Industry Program (2007). Her work is represented in numerous public collections, including the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Myra Mimlitsch-Gray was elected a Fellow of the American Craft Council in 2016.