NHSO Art Violin Project on display at: Khaki & Black, 737 Boston Post Rd, Madison

 

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Amy Claire Russell
Milford, CT

Amy graduated from the University of Bridgeport with a BS in Visual Art; she worked as a jeweler making custom jewelry for a high-end jewelry store. She also started her own jewelry business, selling her work at craft fairs, using old wooden picture frames as displays. To spruce-up the recycled frames Amy decorated them with my newly found paint pens. It wasn’t long until she was scouring thrift stores in search of objects that had enough flat surfaces to decorate - wooden bowls, jewelry boxes, clocks, framed mirrors - which, when completed, were signed and promptly given to family and friends.

Amy continued to decorate objects on and off through the years, but moved on from making jewelry to managing production for a small jewelry company in NYC, eventually ending up in Milford, CT, closer to her family.