Bessie Jamieson

 
 

Bessie Jamieson is a classically trained goldsmith.  She majored in music at Vassar.  After moving to New York, she studied jewelry making at the Brooklyn Museum Art School, the Crafts Student League, and apprenticed with Robert Kulicke and Jean Stark at Kulicke-Stark Academy of Jewelry Art.  After her apprenticeship in classical techniques, including gold granulation, classical chain-making, classical settings, lapidary techniques, she taught at Kulicke-Stark until 1987, when she founded the Jewelry Arts Institute, continuing the traditions of Kulicke-Stark.  From 1987 until May,2009, she taught jewelry techniques and directed the Institute. Currently,  she devotes her time to her first love, designing and making jewelry.  All of her jewelry is hand-made, including alloying the gold, and making the wire and sheet used in her pieces.  She has an annual show at Davis and Langdale Gallery, 231 E. 60th ST., New York, NY, and she is represented by the gallery year round.  She has had shows at Locks Gallery in Philadelphia, and she is currently showing in G-Squared Gallery in Ligonier, Pa., and History on High, in Carlisle, Pa.  During her years at The Jewelry Arts Institute, she demonstrated and lectured on Classical techniques and history for the World Gold Council, Bard Graduate School of Decorative Design, the Metropolitan Museum docents from the Cloisters, and for the docents from the Museum of Art and Design. 

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