{"id":1781,"date":"2015-03-30T22:14:07","date_gmt":"2015-03-30T22:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/metalwerx\/?p=1781"},"modified":"2015-04-02T16:15:01","modified_gmt":"2015-04-02T16:15:01","slug":"student-spotlight-jacqueline-galusha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/metalwerx\/2015\/03\/30\/student-spotlight-jacqueline-galusha\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Spotlight: Jacqueline Galusha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jacqueline Galusha commutes from one end of the state to the other for back-to-back classes at Metalwerx, and stays in the Boston area with friends for weekend workshops.\u00a0 She lives with her husband on his family\u2019s generations-old 400-acre Berkshire dairy farm in Williamstown, a beautiful expanse of rolling hills, pasture and woods with views into neighboring Vermont.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metalwerx.com\/blog\/Jacqueline-Forged-Bracelets.jpg\" alt=\"Forged bracelets\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jacqueline took her first metalworking class &#8212; in casting, taught by James Kennedy &#8212; at IS183, a non-profit community arts school in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, only three years ago. She was captivated by the properties and beauty of molten silver and, following her newly-inspired creative soul, set up a studio in an out-building on the farm. She collected tools and equipment mostly from online sources, and began casting.<\/p>\n<p>Jacqueline was born in Peru to a mother who was French and an American father (who met in Venezuela, of course!)\u00a0 Her family lived in Antwerp, Belgium when she was young, and eventually returned to her father\u2019s native land, and settled in Boston and lived there for 15 years. Jacqueline graduated from the University of Massachusetts, and, in recent years\u00a0spent several years teaching elementary school\u00a0in France, where her sister owned a restaurant.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metalwerx.com\/blog\/Jacqueline-leaf-bracelet-1.jpg\" alt=\"Leaf bracelet\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jacqueline soon established a line of simple, elegant jewelry based on vacuum castings of the leaves of native Berkshire trees. She had had an early career in sales &#8212; selling copiers in Boston, and then representing the printing company Graphique de France &#8212; and attributes some of her success in selling her line of jewelry to the store at the Clark Institute of Art Museum to the savvy of her early sales career. The museum asked her to supplement her line with jewelry cast from leaves of the willow trees on the grounds of the museum, and Jacqueline\u2019s jewelry is now a regular\u00a0feature in the museum\u2019s store, as well as at the Williams College Museum Shop.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metalwerx.com\/blog\/Jacqueline-willow-necklace.jpg\" alt=\"Willow collar\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At Metalwerx, Jacqueline is now exploring the possibilities of metalsmithing beyond casting, currently enrolled in <strong>Directed Open Studio<\/strong> with David Baird, and <strong>Soldering Solutions<\/strong> with Joy Raskin.\u00a0 Just since January, besides her weekly classes, Jacqueline has taken five\u00a0workshops, and is\u00a0enrolled in <strong>Three Rings in Three Days<\/strong> with John Cogswell and lapidary workshops with Michael Boyd. \u00a0Right now she is making\u00a0beautiful bracelets with bezel-set sea glass, and we can&#8217;t wait to see what she will create next!<\/p>\n<p>See more of Jacqueline&#8217;s work on her website &#8211; <a title=\"Wanderlust Jewelry Design by Jacqueline Galusha\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wanderlustjewelrydesign.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.wanderlustjewelrydesign.com\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metalwerx.com\/blog\/Jacqueline-Sea-glass-bracelet.jpg\" alt=\"Sea glass bracelet\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><em>by Julia Meyerson<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jacqueline Galusha commutes from one end of the state to the other for back-to-back classes at Metalwerx, and stays in the Boston area with friends for weekend workshops.\u00a0 She lives with her husband on his family\u2019s generations-old 400-acre Berkshire dairy farm in Williamstown, a beautiful expanse of rolling hills, pasture and woods with views into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":143,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/metalwerx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/metalwerx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/metalwerx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/metalwerx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/143"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/metalwerx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1781"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/metalwerx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1795,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/metalwerx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781\/revisions\/1795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/metalwerx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/metalwerx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/metalwerx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}