Monica Cioppettini (b. 1994, USA) is a multidisciplinary artist driven by the hidden lives of discarded treasures. She earned her B.F.A. in Fine Art from Monmouth University in 2017 and her M.F.A. in Painting from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2020, where she now teaches full-time. Her work—featured in exhibitions across New York and Georgia—draws from jewelry and found objects, gathered from thrift shops and flea markets. Each gold chain, pearl earring, or forgotten ring holds echoes of past identities, stories once intimately close to strangers but later abandoned. In her hands, these fragments find a renewed purpose, evolving into works that hold both personal and collective memory. Cioppettini currently lives and works in Savannah, GA, weaving narratives from the jewelry box remnants of a thousand unknown lives.