crafthaus is an online community with close to 2000 members. Brigitte Martin, who is the originator of crafthaus and keeps all their balls in the air, is also a gallery member of AJF. crafthaus is a place for professional craft artists to display their work and connect internationally across all fields of interest. Each month, one of the members is asked to curate an online exhibition. During the month of October, Mexican jeweler Lorena Angelo was asked to do the honors. Her exhibition focuses on the back of the brooch called Behind the Brooch.
Susan Cummins: Did you train as a jeweler?
Lorena Angulo: My initial studies were not related to jewelry making at all. I studied mass communications and was looking to work as a journalist when I finished my studies, but destiny brought me to the United States and all my plans changed. I found my true passion later on in life when I started to take metalsmithing classes at Southwest School of Art in San Antonio, Texas. Since then I have not stopped making jewelry.