Arline Fisch
American artist and jewelry designer (born 1931)
Arline Fisch (August 21, 1931 – August 20, 2024) was an American artist and educator. She is known for her work as a metalsmith and jeweler, pioneering the use of textile processes from crochet, knitting, plaiting, and weaving in her work in metal.
She developed techniques for incorporating metal wire and other materials into her jewelry.
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Arline Fisch was born in Brooklyn, New York City on August 21, 1931, and grew up in New York. She first was taught to sew by her mother, and made many of her own clothes. Her father later gave her lessons at Singer Sewing as a gift so that she and her mother would stop arguing about sewing. Fisch also picked up a passion for bright colors from her father, who loved red.
Fisch studied at Skidmore College, receiving her B.S. in Art in 1952. She received her M.A. in Art in 1954 from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, where she took classes in metalworking with Arthur J. Pulos.
After teaching drawing, painting, and design for two years at Wheaton College, she traveled to Copenhagen, Denmark, on a Fulbright Grant to study silversmithing.
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