Hawaiian Jewelry Designers Biography
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Catherine Weitzman – Born and raised in New York
1994 Classical metalsmith education in Italy
1995-2000 Travels with husband and co-creator, Scott Diamond: Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Cambodia, Laos, Burma, India, Nepal, New Zealand, Micronesia, Japan, Honduras, Guatemala, Mexico, Spain, Morocco, Egypt. Apprentices with traditional artisans all over the world.
2000-2003 Returns to the United States to start Catherine Weitzman Handmade Jewelry in San Francisco, California. Stores begin to make the jewelry available. The work is well received and the company expands with each new collection.
2004-2005 Relocates handmade production studio to Honolulu, Hawaii.
2006-2007 Living between Hawaii and Manhattan generates a large body of work inspired by both islands.
2008-2009 Opens a showroom in mid-town Manhattan for sales and press requests.
2010 Collection available in stores on five continents.
With each new piece of her signature line of handmade jewelry, Catherine Weitzman expresses her love of nature through art, design, and fashion. The work evolves from a lifetime of extensive travel by land and sea. Seasonal accessory collections offer women organic elegance that combines luxury and wearability with the highest standards of craftsmanship. Catherine and Scott live between New York and Hawaii, where a gifted production team manufactures all of their products by hand. While they derive tremendous pleasure from creating the jewelry, their greatest satisfaction comes from sharing it with each individual who sees it, wears it, and makes it her own.
CURRENT INFLUENCES
The ecology of the 5 elements- earth, air, fire, water, space- provides a limitless
source of inspiration. Much of our current work consists of precious metals cast directly
from objects that we find in nature, like branches, shells, leaves, and flowers.1994 Classical metalsmith education in Italy
1995-2000 Travels with husband and co-creator, Scott Diamond: Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Cambodia, Laos, Burma, India, Nepal, New Zealand, Micronesia, Japan, Honduras, Guatemala, Mexico, Spain, Morocco, Egypt. Apprentices with traditional artisans all over the world.
2000-2003 Returns to the United States to start Catherine Weitzman Handmade Jewelry in San Francisco, California. Stores begin to make the jewelry available. The work is well received and the company expands with each new collection.
2004-2005 Relocates handmade production studio to Honolulu, Hawaii.
2006-2007 Living between Hawaii and Manhattan generates a large body of work inspired by both islands.
2008-2009 Opens a showroom in mid-town Manhattan for sales and press requests.
2010 Collection available in stores on five continents.
With each new piece of her signature line of handmade jewelry, Catherine Weitzman expresses her love of nature through art, design, and fashion. The work evolves from a lifetime of extensive travel by land and sea. Seasonal accessory collections offer women organic elegance that combines luxury and wearability with the highest standards of craftsmanship. Catherine and Scott live between New York and Hawaii, where a gifted production team manufactures all of their products by hand. While they derive tremendous pleasure from creating the jewelry, their greatest satisfaction comes from sharing it with each individual who sees it, wears it, and makes it her own.
CURRENT INFLUENCES
It does not surprise me at all that the ocean has become such a significant part of who McKenzie is and what her passion encompasses. I am sure there is salt water running through her veins.
I am privileged to be writing my daughter’s bio….
My earliest recollection of McKenzie’s enthusiasm for all things collected in nature goes back to canoe races at Hilo Bay, camping at Ho’okena beach, and our daily visits to Kamakahonu Bay. We’d comb the beach for shells, driftwood, seeds and things we admired and saved them for something treasured...
By high school McKenzie channeled her desire to organics and nature, and had decided on a career in jewelry. She attended Parker School in Kamuela, Hawaii where she mentored with local jewelry designer Kenneth S. Brown, G.G. Ken instilled in McKenzie an obsession that continues to this day. After this apprenticeship and a four year degree at Hawaii Pacific University she decided to fine tune her studies in the jewelry industry at the Gemological Institute of America (GIA) in Carlsbad, California. There she obtained her degree as a Graduate Jeweler Gemologist G.J.G.
Her career has included a museum curator and exhibit designer positions with GIA and an administrative position with K. Brunini Jewels in Solana Beach, California. Her work has taken her to far places as; Switzerland, Italy, Dubai and New York.
McKenzie’s evolution is fresh and exciting. She brings a new and fun look to accessorizing; combining sterling silver, leather, koa wood and of course ocean-life and shells. Her collections continue to expand and evolve as she finds art in everyday life and nature. The allure of the islands is the inspiration and driving force behind MCKmetals creations. May she never lose the fascination of the bare footed child on the beach. I adore her and all she does...and I know you will too. Technically astounding, aesthetically beautiful and culturally important. These are just some of the ways in which Denise Wallace’s jewelry can be described. Inspired by the stories of her Chugach Aleut ancestors, her unique creations have made her the best-known Alaska Native jeweler of our time.
Wallace began her artistic journey as a student at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico in the late 70s. After graduating, she and her husband Samuel remained in Santa Fe creating and selling work from their studio and gallery for 20 years. In 1999, the Wallaces moved from the high desert to the tropics of Hawaii where they continued to collaborate on pieces. In 2010, Denise’s beloved Samuel passed away, but his influence on the couple’s work will forever be felt.
Beyond the indelible imprint that could only be made by the decades long partnership with Samuel, Wallace credits Native American artists such as Allan Houser, John Hoover, Charles Loloma, Roxanne Swentzell and many more as being influential to her work, as well. However, the content of her pieces remain firmly planted in the rich stories and customs of the Native people of arctic Alaska, stories that deal with themes of healing, growth, nature and transformation. “The transformation aspect is what inspired the doors and hinges on my work, Wallace says.
In addition to complex mechanical components like the tiny, working lockets that open to reveal hidden subject matter, Wallace utilizes materials like silver, gold, semiprecious stones and scrimshawed, fossilized ivory to join old traditions and stories with her newly envisioned interpretations. Figures and faces dance and come alive in dazzling belts, earrings, pendants and more.
Her work has been featured in the major traveling exhibition, Arctic Transformations: The Jewelry of Denise and Samuel Wallace organized by the Anchorage Museum of History and Art in Anchorage, Alaska; Craft in America 3, a PBS series, nationally touring exhibition and publication; Gifts of the Spirit: Works by Nineteenth Century and Contemporary Native American Artists, organized by the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts and more. Wallace’s work is also housed in the permanent collections of the Anchorage Museum of History and Art in Anchorage, Alaska; the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico; the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, New York and the Mingei International Museum in San Diego, California.
Wallace says, “I hope to create pieces that speak to people… pieces that have a life of their own and become part of the world. I have always wanted the pieces to tell a story about our land, our people and some small song or story about the world we live in.”
With an international following and resume bursting with international exhibits and exchanges, Wallace continues to both honor and celebrate the people and places of her homelands by sharing their stories, through jewelry, around the world.
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Hawaiian Jewelry Designers Jewelry Desgin Sketches Ideas 2014 Neclkace Ring Earringes Gallery Bangles Software Drawing Images Photos Wallpapers
Hawaiian Jewelry Designers Jewelry Desgin Sketches Ideas 2014 Neclkace Ring Earringes Gallery Bangles Software Drawing Images Photos Wallpapers
Hawaiian Jewelry Designers Jewelry Desgin Sketches Ideas 2014 Neclkace Ring Earringes Gallery Bangles Software Drawing Images Photos Wallpapers
Hawaiian Jewelry Designers Jewelry Desgin Sketches Ideas 2014 Neclkace Ring Earringes Gallery Bangles Software Drawing Images Photos Wallpapers
Hawaiian Jewelry Designers Jewelry Desgin Sketches Ideas 2014 Neclkace Ring Earringes Gallery Bangles Software Drawing Images Photos Wallpapers
Hawaiian Jewelry Designers Jewelry Desgin Sketches Ideas 2014 Neclkace Ring Earringes Gallery Bangles Software Drawing Images Photos Wallpapers
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