CHRISTY KLUG

Cristy Klug's jewelry is inspired by her early interest in stained glass design, which she studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, MA. She was drawn to the work of the stained glass artists in post-World War II Germany, who revolutionized the medium by elevating the structural function of the lead lines into an artistic element. Jewelry design affords her the opportunity to work on a smaller scale and personalize the artistic process for her in a way that she could achieve the dramatic, aesthetic effect of the lead lines by hand cutting them into the metal leaving negative space where the glass had been.