Alexandra Hart is a Fairmined Licensed designer goldsmith, activist and advocate, using and promoting responsibly-sourced materials for couture and conceptual art jewelry.
Alexandra Hart is known for her sophisticated and artful couture jewelry and metal sculpture. With both Bachelors and Masters degrees in art and metalsmithing, with fashion experience designing for Lagerfeld and Givenchy jewelry, and with fine jewelry design and manufacturing with Barbara Heinrich Studio, she has achieved the synergy among artistic inspiration, high design and skillful craftsmanship that many artists spend their entire careers chasing.
Alexandra has been working to promote socially and ecologically responsible business practices in the jewelry industry and to consumers since the launch of her business in 1995. She actively serves as in advisory and Director roles with Ethical Metalsmiths, Compassion for African Villages, and Jewellery and Gemstone Association Africa, and is involved in other organizations for good, blending her designer business with activist roles.
Ethical Metalsmiths Trunk Show, Thank you!
The Alchemy of Sustainability -Was a great collaborative Trunk Show Fundraiser to benefit Ethical Metalsmiths at the gorgeous new Berkeley location of Terra Firma Gallery! Four talented EM Members finest works supported the cause of a [...]
2014 Marks Ethical Metalsmith’s 10th Anniversary
This organization made up of Jewelers and Metalsmiths advocating social and environmental responsibility was founded 10 years ago by Susan Kingsley and Christina Miller because of their dismay upon learning how precious materials were mined at [...]
Diamonds with a Story campaign: Pure Flight, part 2
The PURE FLIGHT collection is featured as the example of Sustainable Contemporary design in Rio Tinto's Diamonds with a Story Campaign, featured in this beautifully designed book . In the Diamonds with a Story article, [...]
Exhibition: Symbiosis Review, part 1
Looking back now at the exhibition: symbiosis, and the entire experience of such a great opportunity with Sparks Gallery in San Diego, these pictures and moments are some of the highlights! It was intended to [...]
Symbiosis Exhibition Event: Artist on-site Demonstration
Wonder how to hammer form metal? This is a video of the in-gallery demonstration during the symbiosis show at Sparks Gallery, where attendees had a chance to try too! Full Video link here:
Next Grand Tour of Symbiosis at Sparks Gallery
the Arts Education Council and the San Diego Museum of Art are hosting a fundraising private champagne tour of Symbiosis at Sparks Gallery on November 12. All interested sign up soon!
