Credit: Karen Smith By Jasmine Browley ·Updated October 14, 2021
When Karen Smith decided to travel to Senegal for a metalsmith apprenticeship, the self-taught metal artist didn’t realize how much she would have to overcome while in the West African country.
Not only was the program one of the most rigorous in the world, but it was also extremely exclusionary. In the heavily Muslim country, the saying goes “women don’t wield the hammer,” so
