California born, yet North African raised, Alexandria Carrion received her MFA in Metalsmithing from Cranbrook Academy of Art, in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. She also holds a BFA degree in Sculpture and Metals from the University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas.

Alexandria’s love affair with metal began at an impressionable age. Being exposed to the vendors of gold, silver, copper, and brass at the local souk made a lasting impact. Augmenting geology, deciphering topology, and interpreting family dynamics are all fodder for inspiration. Her interests stem from the exposure of edges stripped bare, distilled down to an essence. Studies of fissures, geologic fractures, the glacial erratic, as well as plate tectonics are intermixed and applied within the oblique terrain of her familial relationships. Her passions lie in observing the minutiae of what could be considered banal and translating it into sculptural forms.

Alexandria has participated in awarded residencies at The Banff Centre, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Penland School of Crafts, and Arteles Creative Center in Finland. She has been published in American Craft, Detroit Metro Times, and Real Detroit Weekly. She has participated in exhibits at Subliminal Projects, The National Ornamental Metal Museum, Society of North American Goldsmiths, and Haystack Mountain School of Crafts.