ALICE SHERROD
JEWELRY ARTIST
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Alice Sherrod was born and reared
in Dothan, Alabama; went off to college; and returned to Alabama
intermittently until 2007 when she relocated permanently to
Birmingham. During the intervening years, Alice reared four
sons, divorced, and received three master’s degrees (psychology,
architecture, landscape architecture) and a Ph.D. This led to
her teaching landscape architecture at Texas Tech University. |
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| In Alice’s words: "Many years
ago, I listed four things that I wanted for my future life: 1)
Creativity, 2) Flexible hours, 3) Variety, and 4) Travel. That
is exactly what I have now that I am designing and creating
unique jewelry in Birmingham and selling my work in galleries
and juried art festivals." Alice has received awards for her
work and hopes to continue her busy schedule until, as she says,
she "decides to do something else!!" |
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"I love color and pattern and
creating dynamic interactions among them. This is why I most
often work in combinations of copper, aluminum, silver, brass,
polymer clay, and/or mixed media. I also love creating my own
art, rather than teaching it to others. I think I have always
been a designer, though it has taken many forms in my life. I
have also always loved jewelry and collected it for many years.
It seems a special gift to now make my own wearable art." |
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| "As a university professor, I
emphasized principles of design, now applied to the making of
jewelry. Ideally, a work should have balance, rhythmic movement
or repetition, scale and proportion, a particular emphasis or
focal point, and visual unity. (The professor in me has to point
out that these principles apply to most art forms; the artist in
me says that rules are made to be broken!) |
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In Birmingham, you can see
Alice's work at The Museum Shop in the Birmingham Museum of Art.
She is also on the executive boards of the Birmingham Art
Association and Alabama Designer Craftsmen, as well as having
memberships in the Hoover Arts Alliance and the Alabama Mineral
& Lapidary Society. Click here to visit
Alice's web site. Click
here to contact Alice by e-mail. |
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