Tanya Crane is a Southern California native living and working in Boston, Massachusetts. She is a professor of the practice in metals at the School Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts. Crane’s work is framed within a dual existence of prejudice and privilege having adapted to life amongst family in both the white suburbs and the urban center of South Central, Los Angeles. Craft has become a conduit between these two worlds and has provided me the framework in which my current work is centered.