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About the Artist
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Professional artist with over 12 years of entrepreneurial experience,

Denise J. Bonaimo is living the dream with a career of designing

and creating jewelry and teaching workshops in sunny San Diego, California.

Bonaimo specializes in creativity. She sees art everywhere. There is a prolific, constant expansion of her jewelry lines and other creative endeavors.

Denise's studio is one of 37 artist studios in Spanish Village Art Center, the

largest community of independently juried regional artists in San Diego. She became a juried member of Spanish Village Art Center member over 7 years ago. In 2006 she was finally granted the lease to Studio Fourteen. She has transformed the 70 year old tower, with its circular floor plan and

15 foot ceilings into a serene space filled with good energy and a beautiful

gallery to showcase her jewelry and photography.

 

With a strong desire to share her knowledge with people of all ages

and spark their need to express themselves through art, Denise offers

several jewelry classes (wErkshops) at Studio Fourteen and off site locations as well.

  

Denise got her first taste of jewelry design when she was 9 years old. Her mom,

Felicia, got her started creating beaded bracelets for Sassy Stuff,

a home based jewelry business. Art was always a source of great enjoyment for her and

having a creative mother and a supportive family played a hugely instrumental role in her

deciding to pursue a career in the arts.

 

As a student at Moore College of Art and Design (Philadelphia, PA),

Rowan University (Glassboro, NJ), University of Northumbria (Newcastle, UK),

and GIA (Gemological Institute of America, NY/CA) this native

Brooklyn/Jersey girl’s natural talent was nurtured and honed with a variety

of art, design, art history, diamond grading and metalsmithing courses.

She also had the privilege of apprenticing to Philadelphia metalsmith,

Anthony DeRienzi.

 

Click here for her professional resume.

 

Bonaimo relocated from the East Coast in 2001 and currently resides

in San Diego. An extensive collection of her jewelry can be seen at

Studio Fourteen in Balboa Park’s Spanish Village Art Center.

 

You are encouraged to visit Studio Fourteen at Spanish Village Art Center

in Balboa Park, as new designs are being born everyday.

Several days of the week, the artist can be observed

utilizing a saw, hammer and torch to create original, handcrafted

jewelry.

 

The gallery/studio is open everyday from 11am-4pm and the Fourth

Thursday of each month until 9pm.

For more information about her artwork or classes, call the studio:

(619) 284-DIVA or email: artdiva@bonaimo.com.

 

 


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