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Beth E. Coiner
"I’m a modern dancer turned jeweler. I approach each design much like a piece of choreography, drawing from the inherent movement found in nature and architecture. My tiny, sculptural designs are textured and intimate, becoming urban and rural vistas transformed into wearable art. As a dancer, I tell stories. As a jeweler, I love to add to my clients’ personal stories by transforming their under-worn or heirloom jewelry into bespoke pieces unique unto them."
Beth believes that there is a parallel among her dance pieces and pieces of jewelry. Both are intimate. When choreographing a dance, Beth uses movement to create an unspoken narrative. With her jewelry, movement is also present, but on a very macro scale. It reveals itself in the curvature of a tiny shell, or in the repetition of shapes and textures, or in how each piece relates to the body. Beth creates pieces where the jewelry is the solo dancer and the wearer is the stage.
Beth begins her process with sketches rendered to scale and plays with arrangements of loose gemstones to arrive at a design. Many of her tiny castings are derived from objects found in nature. She uses the lost wax casting process to transform these tiny objects into metal castings for her jewelry collections. She sometimes uses metal fabrication and 3-D CAD renderings for her designs.
Beth received a BFA in Modern Dance at Columbia College in SC. She attended jewelry classes at Fashion Institute Of Technology (FIT) in NYC and Penland School Of Crafts in NC. She has taken seminars and workshops with Deb Stoner, Kirk Lang, Alain Simic, and Kate Wolfe. She is a member of the Stay Gold Collective.
Beth believes that there is a parallel among her dance pieces and pieces of jewelry. Both are intimate. When choreographing a dance, Beth uses movement to create an unspoken narrative. With her jewelry, movement is also present, but on a very macro scale. It reveals itself in the curvature of a tiny shell, or in the repetition of shapes and textures, or in how each piece relates to the body. Beth creates pieces where the jewelry is the solo dancer and the wearer is the stage.
Beth begins her process with sketches rendered to scale and plays with arrangements of loose gemstones to arrive at a design. Many of her tiny castings are derived from objects found in nature. She uses the lost wax casting process to transform these tiny objects into metal castings for her jewelry collections. She sometimes uses metal fabrication and 3-D CAD renderings for her designs.
Beth received a BFA in Modern Dance at Columbia College in SC. She attended jewelry classes at Fashion Institute Of Technology (FIT) in NYC and Penland School Of Crafts in NC. She has taken seminars and workshops with Deb Stoner, Kirk Lang, Alain Simic, and Kate Wolfe. She is a member of the Stay Gold Collective.
