Barbara Michelle Jacobs

Ever since I was a young girl, I have enjoyed creating three dimensional art from found objects or whatever is within reach. I’ve fashioned huge sculptures using empty soda cans and suspended them from a ceiling, made stylish outfits using only small scraps of fabric and a stapler (ouch!) and spent hours "baking" mud pies in my back yard. My mind and hands were always in motion and I was happiest when I was creating.........Some things never change.

After 2 degrees from FIT(both business, not design related) a happy marriage, 2 amazing kids and careers in fashion, sales, and lots of volunteer work, I find myself once again creating. I've graduated from mud to metal and stones and I still love to get my hands dirty. There's nothing like the mesmerizing glow of pure gold when it reaches its melting temperature sitting on a saturated black charcoal block. It's so exciting watching my ideas take form. It’s funny, with all our ever changing technology, in our busy, automated, digitized, pixilated lives; the jewelry making process remains much the same today as it was thousands of years ago - I think that's incredible. . . . continue profile