Rhea Vedro

Rhea Vedro is a Lecturer and Metals Artist in Residence at MIT's Department of Materials Science and Engineering (DMSE), where she leads fine metals instruction in The Merton C. Flemings Materials Processing Laboratory. She teaches courses such as 3.093 (Metalsmithing: Objects and Power) and 3.095 (Introduction to Metalsmithing), and contributes to MIT's Morningside Academy for Design DesignPlus seminars.

Her MFA in metalsmithing is from SUNY New Paltz. Vedro's research explores metalsmithing as a cultural signifier of values, power, and protection across belief systems and time, blending art, materiality, and healing. Her studio practice focuses on hollow-form steel sculpture.

Before MIT, she served as director of community engagement at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and was a Boston Public Art Triennial Accelerator Fellow. She has taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and SUNY New Paltz, collaborating with institutions like the City of Boston Mayor’s Office of Arts + Culture, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, and museums across the Americas.