Refined Chicago-based jewelry artist Carla Reiter will be in town this weekend to exhibit her pieces at the Walters Art Museum’s Jewelry Fair, which runs Friday-Sunday. Known for her elegant and ethereal hand-knitted designs, Reiter will be marking her third consecutive appearance at the event. The designer, who often fashions darkened silver, gold, and copper into her original pieces, originally trained as a sculptor as the University of Indiana. Today, she works out of a small studio in the Windy City where she creates all of her unique designs by hand. “I’m not an artist who is directly inspired by nature or architecture or anything like that,” explains Reiter. “I look at all kinds of things and they percolate around in my head and then I get an idea to make something. I get interested in a particular shape, or a stone of some kind, and I want to see what it would look like on a body. It always comes down to putting the thing on a woman’s body so that both are made more beautiful.”Reiter is “delighted to be in the Walters jewelry show.”And how will she enjoy her time in Baltimore? “I do love Lexington Market. I wish we had something like it in Chicago, where I’m from. The crab cakes. The raw bar …. yum,” says Reiter, before adding, “I also really love the Walters Museum. It has a fantastic collection of antiquities, which I find tremendously inspiring. And the Asian collection is magnificent. It’s really a wonderful place that I look forward to visiting every year when I do the show.”—Rebecca Gregg