Introducing New Shibumi Artist
LAURA LIENHARD

Meet the Artist!
November 11th, 4-8 PM

Alongside our Get Fused Event, Shibumi will be featuring new work by
LAURA LIENHARD, April Higashi's 2021-2022 Jewelry Loupe mentee.

LAURA LIENHARD founded her jewelry studio after a successful twenty-year career in textile design, turning a highly trained eye from the patterns of the loom toward explorations in metal. Investigations into the interplay of pattern and structure define her work. Elements in her jewelry are derived from nature’s forms and textures as well as its surprises. Spontaneity and instinct lead to unique, often kinetic connections of hand fabricated elements that harken back to her textile roots.

Crafted in a varying palette of 18K gold, silver, shibuichi and keum-boo Laura’s jewelry represents the transformation of nature’s raw beauty into personal expressions of elegance.

ABOUT THE JEWELRY LOUPE PROJECT
The Jewelry Loupe Project is a jewelry business incubator for emerging designers facilitated and administered by the Women's Jewelry Association. For the past three years April has been working with the Jewelry Loupe Project taking on a new mentee each year.

Laura Lienhard has a BFA in Textile Design and an MFA in Industrial Textiles from the Rhode Island School of Design. She has attended intensive metal workshops at Haystack Mountain school of Crafts in Maine, Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina and Alchimia Jewellery School in Florence Italy. Recently she has been studying independently with a master jeweler and artist in the hills of Fiesole above Florence.

Laura works from her studio in Sausalito, CA.