Jewelry Design Programs Biography
Source(google.com.pk)Dan Miller is a custom jewelry designer and owner of Dan Miller Jewelry, an intimate, full service fine jewelry studio situated across from Main Beach in the heart of Laguna. He specializes in educating his customers in the old world art of custom jewelry design. For nearly 5 decades, he has been designing in Laguna Beach.
Clients come from worldwide, many of which are multi-generational. Jewelry is a family art, an art that brings families together through love and tradition. To him, jewelry is also the art of design, sculpture, and ideas beyond the traditional. Dan works with the finest grade stones and metals to create the best jewelry available. From start to finish, he guides his clients in the process of fulfilling each particular wish.
In 1966, during Dan’s senior year he took a jewelry design class at Laguna Beach High. He worked apprenticing for a few years in between studying at UC Riverside and UC Berkeley, and later rented a studio in Laguna Canyon, and then in downtown Laguna off Mermaid Street.
In 1970, Dan first exhibited at the Sawdust Festival and the following year in 1971, he had his inaugural year at The Festival of the Arts. For years he continued to be an exhibitor at both festivals, eventually leaving the Sawdust as a member and solely exhibiting at The Festival of the Arts. Dan’s first retail location was in Peppertree Lane. In 1976, he moved to his present location across from Main Beach next to the Laguna Movie Theater.
Tom Ferrero is a graduate of Rochester Institute of Technology, The University of Auckland, and Indiana University and holds a BFA, Post Graduate Diploma in Visual Art, as well as a MFA, respectively. He also has a provisional teaching certificate in fine art for grades K-12 in the state of Maine.
In 2003-2004 Ferrero was awarded a United States Fulbright Grant to New Zealand where he studied the artwork of the Maori and other Pacific Island people as well as doing research on New Zealand's landscape and natural environment.
In January 2009 Ferrero accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Jewelry and Metalsmithing at NSCAD University in Halifax, Canada, where he continues to teach courses in Stone Settings & Mechanisms, Holloware, Beginner through Advanced Jewelry Fabrication, Jewelry Studio, and Steel Techniques for Jewelers.
Ferrero is the recipient of numerous awards, most notably being:
• 1st place winner for silver jewelry in the NICHE Awards.
• 1st place winner for metal sculpture in the NICHE Awards
• 1st place winner for hollowware in the International Saul Bell Design Award Competition
He has worked for such artists and companies as the Barbara Heinrich Studio and New England Sterling and has sold and exhibited work in many galleries through out North America as well as internationally in South Korea, New Zealand and South Africa. His artwork is featured in more than 13 books and is held in the private collection of the Kamm Teapot Foundation.
LINDA CHOW is an Award-winning jewellery artist and graduate of ACAD. She has been an established goldsmith for over 20 years. In 1992, she returned to ACAD to explore new metal techniques and applications, and since leaving, has been experimenting with unusual sculptural forms. Linda includes non-precious metals in her jewellery designs and creates wearable sculptures from used culinary objects and other recycled materials. She exhibits both nationally and internationally; and her work is in numerous private collections. Linda is also co-owner of Simply Metal Studio (Calgary).
DYLAN EDDY
DYLAN EDDY was born in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, USA. He came to Calgary in 2007 to attend ACAD majoring in Jewellery + Metals, and in 2012 he received his BFA. In 2011, Dylan attended workshops in at the Touchstone School of Craft where he studied blacksmithing. Dylan’s work focuses on ideas related to identity, family heritage, and the passage of time with specific reference to Celtic and Norse society and cultural motifs. Dylan has participated in exhibitions across Canada. In 2011 he took part in an exhibition with the Medallic Art Society of Canada in St. Catherine’s, and in 2012 a group show at the Alberta Craft Council.
WANDA ELLERBECK's artistic practice has spanned ove a life time and has covered the disciplines of painting, drawing and sculpture. Before her engagement with visual arts she was involved with dance and the performing arts. She attained a Masters Degree in Fine Arts from Nova Scotia of Art and Design, Canada and a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from the Alberta College of Art and Design. During her studies she was fortunate to work with artists from the USA, Europe as well as Canada. As well as a Canada wide exhibition record, Wanda has taught deawing, painting and sculpture in post secondary institutions in Halifax, Edmonton, Calagry and Vancouver for over 10 years. "I love the teaching aspect of my practice and have great enthusiasm for beginners as well as those who are more adept. My focus has been to facilitate the creativity in other students and offer the skills needed to fulfill their creative efforts and vision." Presently, Wanda lives and works in Canmore, Alberta. Here she is actively engaged in the local art community as well as teaching adult classes in drawing and painting. After a 12 year engegement in the decorative concrete industry, during which time she incorporated art into a functional form, she is now creating and teaching full time.
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