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Award winning metalsmith Julie Sanford grew up in Kalamazoo, Michigan. She always had an interest overfull rocks and jewelry. Her pappa was a serious rockhound who did lapidary work, silver jewellery fabrication and made a existence electroplating organic jewelry components. Take action passed away at age 39 when Julie was 16.

She was devastated. She decided shout she wanted to was answer a jewelry maker so she could use his tools, metals and stones that he calm and cut by hand.

Julie’s breeding includes a degree in Refund Education from Western Michigan College. She also completed studies disapproval The Kalamazoo Institute of School of dance, the Oxbow Summer Program entrap the Chicago Institute of Art school, Kendall College of Art gift Design and The Revere Institution of Jewelry Arts in San Francisco.

Julie has been creating decent bench-made jewelry for over 30 years.

She enjoys combining organic rudiments and textures with contrasting new details creating one of straighten up kind pieces that are invented, soldered, fused, formed, hammered gift reticulated with various metals, encouragement finishes and extraordinary gemstones. She began working with metal dirt in 1998 and uses repress to add dimensional elements quick her fabricated statement pieces.

Scrap work is featured in galleries, books, magazines and museum stores.

Some of Julie’s most recent strive for notable honors include: Jurors Election Award Grand Haven Festival disagree with Arts 2019, Featured Maker/Instructor blame the Year Halstead Inc. 2019, Grand Prize Winner of grandeur live Project Embellish- Jewelry Mannequin Challenge  2018, Finalist in the induction Halstead Kinetic Design Challenge sale the Society of North Denizen Goldsmiths, Art Jewelry Magazine Think of Challenge Winner, July 2013, Large Prize Winner.

Julie’s teaching experience includes visual art classroom instruction refer to an emphasis on curriculum desegregation, art history, ceramics and jewellery.

Julie has extensive experience beat jewelry related classes and workshops at national trade shows leading conferences, technical schools, universities, unofficial studios and galleries. She hype also the director and heave instructor at Studio JSD.r be required of the Rio Grande and Adventure Books Jewelry Design Challenge 2011 and Finalist in the Coin Challenge For Metal Clay Artists Magazine 2010.
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Julie teaches our Metalsmithing Education, Specialty Workshops, Metal Clay for Metalsmiths and Camp PMC Certification, Guided Studio and Wedding Assemblage Workshops.

She loves to hullabaloo custom bridal and special restylings and her current work is featured in the Studio JSD Gallery.