Meet Christina M Lee

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Please allow me to introduce you to Christina Lee.

Christina is formally trained in jewelry design, metalsmithing, lost wax casting, stained glass, glass fusing, silk painting, and off-wheel/hand constructed pottery (ball, coil, slab and pinch pots created freehand, without a potter’s wheel).  She is self-taught in lampwork glass bead making, precious metal clay, knitting, crochet, spinning and weaving.  Christina loves all things jewelry, glass and the fiber arts.

Every piece of her jewelry, silks, fiber arts and hand constructed pottery is handcrafted in her studio space. Each piece is a one-of-a-kind original design. 

Christina’s Free Form Fiber Arts creations have been published in the International Freeform Fiberarts Guild annual Challenges for each of the years 2013-2020.  Her journey into art and jewelry design started when she was a young girl who taught herself to knit at age 12, and to begin learning crochet at age 17.   She sewed professionally for the public for over 10 years.Christina began designing Jewelry about 35 years ago, graduating from college with a major in Jewelry Design where she learned stained glass. That experience led her to fused and slumped glass, and then, eventually to lampwork glass bead making. 

As a young adult she worked with various fiber arts for many years before turning to  metalsmithing and glass.  Christina also loves to teach and has been doing so for many years. She has been a guest instructor for off-wheel/hand constructed pottery at Mangum High School, in Mangum Oklahoma.  She ran her own Art Gallery, Lee Shore Gallery, in the Village of the Arts, Bradenton, FL from 2007-2010.

Now she makes her home in Bradenton, Florida with her husband Rick and has been there for the past 26 years and loves it. Christina has been married for more than 48 years. 

She has 2 children, 7 grandchildren and is expecting her 10th great-grandchild. Christina has had so much fun over the years sharing her love of the arts with her children, grandchildren and now with her great-grandchildren.

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email: christinaleedesigns@verizon.net