Jewelry Design School Biography
Source (google.com.pk )A native–born Pennsylvanian, Marilynn Nicholson earned a Bachelor's Degree from Moore College of Art and Design in Philadelphia, and later received a Master of Fine Arts Degree from the School of American Craftsmen at the Rochester Institute of Technology in upstate New York. Her education has been supplemented by numerous workshops and courses, including several at The School of Jewelry Design and Silversmithing at Birmingham Polytechnic in Birmingham, England. She also studied at the Tyler School of Art in Pennsylvania and at the Worcester Crafts Center in Massachusetts. Additionally, Ms. Nicholson has completed courses in Mexico at the Instituto San Miguel De Allende and in Denmark at the Danske Selskab Danish Design Seminar.
Marilynn taught Jewelry Making, Weaving, Foundations, and Two– and Three–Dimensional Design, both at Trenton State College in New Jersey and at Rhode Island College in Providence. Her teaching continued after she married and moved to England in 1973. During her 12 years in England, she taught part–time at Hereford College of Art and at Malvern Hills College, and also conducted workshops for the Association of British Craftsmen.
Marilynn Nicholson has worked as a self–employed jeweler since 1973. Her career has been highlighted by exhibits in England, Germany, Japan, Israel, Switzerland, Australia, and the United States. Her extensive list of one–person shows includes exhibitions at the Victoria and Albert Museum and Goldsmiths' Hall in London, the Birmingham Museum Art Gallery in Birmingham, England, and the Heimat Museum in Idar–Oberstein, Germany. Her jewelry is also included in permanent collections in England at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Goldsmiths' Hall, the Birmingham Museum Art Gallery, and the West Midlands Art Collection at Shugborough Hall in Staffordshire.
While living in Britain, Marilynn also wrote reviews for publication in association with London's Goldsmiths' Hall and the Society of North American Goldsmith's magazine, Metalsmith. In New Mexico, she has documented workshops for the New Mexico Metals Association Newsletters and has been featured in several articles published in Lapidary Journal. Marilynn's jewelry was also included in an exhibition and book, “Treasures of the 20th Century” published by Goldsmiths' Hall to celebrate the year 2000.
Since 1986, Marilynn has lived and worked as a self–employed jeweler and has taught part–time classes and workshops for The University of New Mexico, The Taos Institute or Art, Santa Fe School of Metalsmithing, Pueblo 5, The Oo–oon–ah Art Center at Taos Pueblo, The Firehouse Art Center, and The Armory Art Center.
Marilynn loves to travel and she enjoyed visiting Japan in 2005 to give a lecture about her mechanism designs at an international conference and exhibition at the museum and jewelry school in Itami, Japan. Future workshops and lectures in 2010 will take place in Tucson for the Arizona Designer Craftsmen and in Florida for the Armory Art Center, West Palm Beach, and the Florida Society of Goldsmiths Northeastern Chapter at Daytona Beach.
Marilynn continues to cut stones and make jewelry and shows at invitational exhibitions throughout the year. Recently her jewelry has been included in a lavishly illustrated wonderful book “Agates II” by the German author, Johann Zenz. Marilynn's work will also be included in the Lark publication, “500 Gem and Stone Jewels” and in the January 2010 edition of Jewelry Artist magazine.
A complete resume is available on request.
Artistic Statement
Marilynn Nicholson fabricates her jewelry in a collage–like style using nature as an inspiration. Landscape, clouds, plant forms, the structure of stones, and often the processes used in forming metals, all provide inspiration. In constructing jewelry, she consciously looks for materials that add surface contour to designs and enhance the dimensional effect of the piece. Marilynn likes to think of her jewelry as small, wearable pieces of sculpture and cuts many of the stones used in her pieces. Agates have particularly striking patterns and their unique qualities often influence the irregular shape of her stones. Gemstones have a primeval feeling that reflect in their structure the evolution of the earth . At times the jewelry follows a theme in which each piece is connected to the others in an effort to explore an idea in all its facets. An experimental approach is used in constructing settings for stones and mechanisms. Total design is the essential consideration, but most importantly, the jewelry must relate to its owner and be comfortable to wear.
Luisella Arrais was born in Cagliari, Sardinia.
In 1978 she decided to move to Florence and live there: it was love at first sight.
In 1980 she did a school of art “ ISA Istituto Statale D’Arte” in Florence and addressed her interest in jewellery section.
She did this school for 2 years and she achieved the Diploma of Art’s Master with honours.
During her education, she went on specializing herself in artistic topics; and she did the Free School of Knot of the Academy of the Arts for one year, where she had the opportunity to improve her pictorial veins.
At the same time, she did an Assembler Making Course for two years, but nevertheless she has been always more interesting in jewel design than in other specialisations.
For this reason she decided to do a Jewellery Design Course, as well.
Awarded all these specializations, she began to work as jewellery designer, after a short period of intense activities as designer and model of wax.
In 1995, she started to teach Jewel Design in particular at Art Fuji Studio in Florence and in other Jewel Schools, too.
In 2000 she decided to open her own Jewellery Design’s Studio, called “ Studio Arrais”
Her typology of teaching jewel’s design is winning, because it is a specific and short course regarding this topic in contrast with courses of other School of Art that usually are longer and more generic than her own courses.
Thanks to this experience in teaching and in sorting out many courses, Luisella Arrais has been often able to give her own students, coming from every part of the world, the possibility to win many competitions, so that Studio Arrais is recognized as leader of teaching jewel’s design.
At the present Luisella Arrais organizes a lot of exhibitions about her own student’s passionate artistic works (this year at Cellai Boutique Hotels in Florence).
Students are so enthusiastic of this initiative, that they are going on taking part in it and they are giving an important contribute in jewel design’s innovation.
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Jewelry Design School Jewelry Desgin Sketches Ideas 2014 Neclkace Ring Earringes Gallery Bangles Software Drawing Images Photos Wallpapers
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