2018: Shibumi is 13!
Inspiration from a winter trip to The Victorian Albert Museum in London Please take 20% off any one item this month to thank you for your patronage. (*wedding rings, custom...
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BEHIND THE SCENES // SHIBUMI GALLERY
With SHIBUMI founder, April HigashiWelcome to the SHIBUMI Custom Design Studio, located in the heart of West Berkeley! While many of you are likely familiar with our Gallery on Fourth...
Shibumi Project: New Life
Each marriage and engagement has a unique story comprised of many moments and emotions. For the couple in this story happiness, joy, heartbreak, vulnerability, sorrow, and support are the words...
Footnotes from Havana
I travel for inspiration, perspective and to find a new understanding that will help make my world bigger. After the devastating US election, a busy holiday season and trying to...
ART JEWELRY FORUM: APRIL HIGASHI
11 / 16 / 2016 Shibumi Gallery, Berkeley, California, USA By Susan Cummins I have known April Higashi for many years and—full disclosure—she worked for me when I owned a...
Shibumi Project
This project was inspired by my clients. Over the years of making and selling jewelry I have been fortunate to meet many wonderful people and hear the myriad of stories...
An Interview with April Higashi: THE MEN’S SHOW, Shibumi Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA By Benjamin Lionel for The Art Jewelry Forum
Shibumi Gallery, in San Francisco, has just opened an exhibition “for men,” looking to address its male patrons’ reticence toward ornaments. This is an exhibition that started with a “what...
San Francisco Chronicle | Nature meets nurture in jewelry artist's live-work space
Via: http://www.sfchronicle.com/homeandgarden/article/Nature-meets-nurture-in-jewelry-artist-s-8301476.php?t=bbb01e7d57
Christina Odegard: MATIN
04/07/2016 Shibumi Gallery, Berkeley, California, USA By Jessica HughesOriginally Published On Art Jewelry Forum Christina Odegard’s deep appreciation for the beauty and elegance of natural materials, as well as her...
Sitting down with April Higashi, the mind behind Shibumi Gallery
Sitting down with April Higashi, the mind behind Shibumi Gallery by Olivia Shih April Higashi, 2016, photo: Cynthia Wood Olivia: April, you have been working in and with contemporary art...
June by April
I was 30 when I met June Schwarcz at her 80th retrospective at the American Craft Museum. When I approached her to ask to work as her assistant, we complimented...
Dependent on the Light: Jane D'Arensbourg's Sculptural Glass Jewelry & Amy Ruppel's Nature-Based Monoprints
by Elka Karl Light cannot exist without shadow; illumination seeks a surface for reflection. In Shibumi Gallery’s newest show Illume, Jane D'Arensbourg’s glass jewelry and lightingand Amy Ruppel’s monoprints serve as an...