Casey Newberg has a background in design, working most recently in fine jewelry manufacturing as a CAD designer in Philadelphia, PA. She received her BFA from Kendall College of Art and Design in Metals and Jewelry Design, in Grand Rapids, MI in 2018, as well as an MFA in Metals, Jewelry, CAD/CAM Design from Tyler School of Art in 2022 where she taught metalsmithing and computer-aided design before pursuing her second master's degree in Art History at John Cabot University in Rome, IT.  

Newberg’s early career in the fine arts focused on the creation of works that explored ephemerality, impermanence, and the humor in the occasionally rotten nature of life. From automative finished electroforms to candy-colored coatings on unstable alloys, her practice remained rooted in sardonicism, emphasized by laser etched graphics to reveal their rapidly decaying surfaces.

Her studio background and experience in various sectors of fine jewelry give her a grounded perspective both as a maker, instructor, and art historian. Currently, she aims to challenge the traditionally accepted view of jewelry as a neutral accessory by demonstrating its role as an active political agent that shaped citizenship and collective identity during the Italian Fascist ventennio. Her second masters thesis explores how the circulation, renunciation, and absence of adornment functioned as a material performance of ideology to enforce gendered, national, and racial hierarchies within the regime’s domestic and colonial projects.

CV available upon request - caseynewberg@gmail.com