Talula Evan Baer is an artist, metalsmith and educator based in Woodstock, New York. She received her BFA in Metalsmithing from the State University of New York at New Paltz, where she underwent rigorous training in traditional jewelry and craft-based practices. She earned her MFA in Metalsmithing from SUNY New Paltz in May 2025, expanding her practice to incorporate the intricacy of jewelry-making into multimedia sculptural works.

Her work utilizes traditional jewelry and holloware techniques to create large-scale sculptural forms. Baer is interested in the tension between jewelry and sculpture; as scale increases and forms approach the size of the body, the work oscillates between feeling personified and empty, between subject and object. Hollow structures function as invitations to inhabit, project, or sense oneself in relation to. Drawing from metalsmithing’s established formal vocabulary, she combines traditional techniques with unconventional materials to create distorted and exaggerated representations of the human form—expressions of the body in flux. Through these works, Baer seeks to evoke empathy and express shared human experiences.

In 2023, Baer received the Windgate–Lamar Fellowship Award, a national grant awarded by the Center for Craft to ten graduating students demonstrating exemplary skill in craft. She has exhibited work nationally, including at New York City Jewelry Week, and currently has work on display at Mark McDonald Gallery in Hudson, New York. She serves as an adjunct professor at SUNY New Paltz and maintains an active metalsmithing practice from her home studio in Gardiner, New York.