Kissing Dog Designs
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About KDD

I grew up in Central New York, where I still live, and have always been drawn to art. I have a restless desire to create, and in jewelry and metal work, I have found the means to express that desire.

I have studied Metals for Jewelry at Utica’s Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, where I also teach. I love teaching -- helping others with their process is a great way to stimulate my own creativity.

Jewelry is a fun medium -- it is ornament, it is decoration, it is often a means of self-expression for the wearer and for the maker. It is also an engineering problem -- I often tell my students that making metal jewelry is a sometimes loud, often dirty, and frequently dangerous process that results in a product designed to be as far removed from noise, dirt and danger as can be. The very paradox of it is kind of addicting.

​Kissing Dog Designs jewelry is influenced by Industrial, Mod, mid-century Modern and Bakelite era designs. It is my goal to create unique, wearable designs that communicate the joy I feel at being able to do something I love for a living
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Lisa Oristian
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