New York—Commerce group Manufacturing Jewelers & Suppliers of America (MJSA) has introduced its 2022 scholarship recipients.

This 12 months, the group has awarded $10,000 in grants by way of its nonprofit arm, the MJSA Schooling Basis. Since 1997, the inspiration has awarded greater than $250,000 in scholarships.

This 12 months, there are three recipients, every receiving $3,350 towards their jewellery design training, with the Windfall Jewelers Membership contributing $2,500 towards the entire.

The scholarship honorees are Amor, Lana Ogilvie, and Sara Lundquist.

Amor is in means of acquiring a diploma of excellence in jewellery making and restore at Boston’s North Bennet Road College. 

After receiving instruments from mates, Amor started making jewellery in a makeshift studio in her house in Rockland, Massachusetts. 

That closet-turned-jeweler’s-bench was a pandemic reprieve, as she watched YouTube movies on crafting copper and brass jewellery and experimented with metalwork. 

Already promoting underneath the moniker Class Summary, Amor has taken lessons at Metalwerx in Waltham, Massachusetts, and now at North Bennet Road College.

After graduating, Amor plans to launch a brand new model known as Djefau, an historic Egyptian time period which means divinity. 

It’ll include items impressed by antiquity with a talismanic high quality.

“There’s a goal for each piece of bijou,” she informed MJSA. “Symbols have meanings, and I ask myself who’s going to put on [the piece], the way it ought to resonate for them.”

Lana Ogilvie has pursued a number of paths previous to jewellery.

She studied fantastic artwork illustration at Concordia College in Montreal, after which labored as a trend mannequin in Europe.

Again in Canada, she was a trend knowledgeable on completely different Canadian tv exhibits. 

The model was included within the Pure Diamonds Council’s Rising Designers Diamond Initiative final 12 months as a part of this system’s second cohort. 

At the moment, Ogilvie is upping her training on the Vogue Institute of Know-how’s prestigious jewellery design program.

“I had been doing large, sculptural items, however now I’m studying how one can work smaller and use stones with dainty cuts,” she mentioned of FIT’s affect on her work.

Ogilvie is also pursuing diamond grading on the Gemological Institute of America. Along with persevering with Sabre Jewellery, she hopes to design for a bigger jewellery home.

Like her fellow scholarship recipients, Sara Lundquist has additionally launched her personal model.

Whereas nonetheless attending lessons at Brigham Younger College—Hawaii, she co-founded Pacific Jewel Co. 

Run out of her studio in Dana Level, California, the road options silver and vermeil jewellery.

She graduated to fantastic jewellery with Lundquist Tremendous, that includes treasured metals and gems. 

Lundquist graduated from GIA’s Graduate Jeweler program in 2021. At the moment, she’s enrolled within the jewellery design and expertise program.

With plans of creating her firms and capabilities sooner or later Lundquist additionally desires to donate a portion of her jewellery gross sales to scholarships for different designers and college students like herself.