Matt Crane graduated Kansas City Art Institute in 1995 from the Sculpture Department. After moving to Brooklyn, New York, he initiated a design / build metal arts fabrication facility, silvercrane llc. (c. 1998). His extensive list of clients include Robert Gober, Erin Shirreff, Ivan Navarro, the Whitney Museum, the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum. In 1998 Crane simultaneously began a long term relationship with Kohler Company in Kohler, WI, creating and managing the Kohler Company Collection of Art while flying between NY and WI. A founding member of Brooklyn Iron, an itinerant iron casting outfit, he traveled to and collaborated in numerous iron casting workshops, conferences and symposia both Nationally and Internationally. After nearly 20 years in Brooklyn, Crane returned to Academia (2015) to earn his Masters Degree from the University at Albany, State University of New York, Department of Art and Art History in 2017. The artist, fabricator and foundry man lives and works in the Hudson River Valley with his wife Allison and son Hugo. The well equipped studio is a flexible space that allows for wood and metal fabrication, metal casting, and sculpture making of varying scales. Crane continues to make and exhibit artwork as well as facilitating projects for artists, building contract custom architectural metalworks and commissions by private clients.