Stephanie Voegele was born in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. She currently resides in Richmond,
Virginia as a 2011 Fountainhead Fellow teaching Jewelry and Metals in the Craft
in Material Studies Department at Virginia Commonwealth University.
May of 2010 she received her MFA from the University of Georgia.
While receiving her MFA, Stephanie grew her passion and talents as a jeweler through a diverse
set of artistry skills, which include: enameling, casting, metalwork, teaching, and challenging the
conventions of jewelry through the use of alternative materials.
Throughout her academic career, Stephanie has grown in the role of
student, assistant, and teacher. While pursuing her MFA at the
University of Georgia, she instructed several workshops and classes that aided in both the
education of her self and pupils.
As a proactive member of the art community, Stephanie has both hosted
and displayed her work in jewelry exhibitions throughout the United
States; touching an eclectic variety of audiences. Whether the
audience was a classroom, a gallery, or a camp of young artists,
Stephanie has nurtured her strong understanding of community to build
upon her jewelry’s inspiration and breadth.
Thus, it is through her social perspective that Stephanie has come to
embrace the more human elements in her life’s work. Just as human
beings are driven to find harmony amidst internal and external
confusion, Stephanie’s work aims to unify what lives beneath with what
is worn on the surface.