EVERETT NOEL: NINE KNIVES

There's a difference between work an artist sells and work an artist keeps. These are the ones Everett Noel kept—nine knives from his personal collection, each singular, each loved. They've never been available before and won't be again.

About Noel

Noel’s story is improbable: born by candlelight in an off-grid cabin built by his father, Noel learned to forge knives from YouTube tutorials and an eighth-grade apprenticeship with a local blacksmith. At 27, he’s operating at the highest levels of American craft. Noel’s handles are carved from salvaged hardwoods—manzanita, redwood, madrone burl. His blades develop patina with use. “The object becomes like a friend,” he says.

Noel belongs to a lineage of California makers who have sought to collapse the distinction between art and life, between the object made and the existence from which it emerges. He has been making knives since 2011. His work has been featured in the San Francisco Chronicle, SF Standard, American Craft, and on German television. He has exhibited at West Coast Craft (where he won the Best Booth Award in 2019), Blunk Space, and Mercado Sagrado.

These knives are part of the EVERETT NOEL: NINE KNIVES exhibition at The Jones Institute on February 21st from 3-6pm.

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