Joanna Gollberg

Joanna Gollberg

Showing at Metal Benders Jewelry Gallery.

My grandmother spent a large part of her life as an enamelist.  In 1992, she gave me all her enamels and her enameling kilns.  I decided to learn how to use them by taking a class at the Penland School of Crafts.  I enjoyed this basic metalsmithing and enameling class so much that I set up my own beginner's studio in the basement of the English building at my college.  I continued to make jewelry while still studying for my BA degree.  After graduating from Warren Wilson College in 1995, I went back to school at the Fashion Institute of Technology where I received a 2 year degree in Jewelry Design, after studying with some of New York's most fabulous industry jewelers and designers.

After graduating from FIT, I moved back to my hometown of Asheville, NC so I could be close to my parents and also be able to afford to start my own business making jewelry.  I have been living in Asheville and making jewelry professionally since 1997.