Shay Soukup is an American metalsmith, artist, and designer working out of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her work explores the underlying structures that shape our natural world using meditative and visionary practices. Through cutting, forging, and fabricating steel, she translates organic principles into sacred forms. Her relationship with metal is informed by traditional techniques in both blacksmithing and steel fabrication. She earned her BFA in Sculpture and Ceramics from the University of North Carolina Greensboro in 2024, followed by two years working in structural steel fabrication in Pittsburgh. Soukup received an Emerging Artist Award from the Metal Museum in Memphis, Tennessee. Her work is held in private collections throughout North America and has been exhibited in galleries and outdoor exhibitions across the United States.  

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