Originally from St. Louis, Jaime Jo Fisher is a metalsmith who thinks of jewelry as wearable collage. In her work, Jaime Jo combines sterling silver and traditional mineral stones with a variety of found, recycled and re-purposed, often overlooked materials. These found materials can be anything: things found on the ground, in the kitchen junk drawer and also at the local thrift store, such as seeds, shells, a mass of dryer lint or fragments of found plastic. Jaime Jo utilizes monochromatic colors, diverse surface textures, and repetition to create a graceful, soothing and unified work of art. By supplementing traditional silversmith techniques with files, letter stamps, and the hammer to develop texture, Jaime Jo creates a layered surface. After manipulating the metal, Jaime Jo uses additional finishing techniques more closely associated with textiles, sewn glass beads or vinyl and even needle felting.

“My hope is through a variety of techniques and applied concepts my jewelry and sculptural boxes will contain something for the individual to discover. By using these ordinary materials with more revered mineral stones I encourage the viewer to reconsider their definition of beauty. Which material is more beautiful? Is it the precious opal or the hand sewn pillow made from a rain poncho?”