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The renowned silversmith and jewelry artist Chunghi Choo (born 1938 in South Korea) is internationally known for her work with electroplating technology and plastic. Her pieces are represented in the most important museums worldwide, including the Metropolitan Museum of Arts (US), the Victoria and Albert Museum (UK) and the Musée des Arts décoratifs (FR). She is also professor emeritus at the University of Iowa, where she established a metals department and raised it to global prominence during her more than 30 years of tenure. Many of her students have become respected artists in the fields of painting, jewellery, textile art, metal design or sculpture. The publication chronicles Choo's distinguished career and features select pieces over the past six decades that have earned her Elected Fellow status of the American Craft Council. Their lasting influence on subsequent generations of artists becomes clear in the works presented by 30 former students.--Translation provided by cataloger via Google Translate.

Lois Silverstein was born in New York. She has lived in Boston, Montreal, Pensacola, San Francisco, and currently lives in Berkeley. Lois received her B.A. from Barnard College, her M.A. from Hunter College, City University of New York, and her Ph.D. from McGill University. She works as a writing consultant, Expressive Arts Therapist and College Literature Instructor. Lois has written and published three novels, five books of poems, essays, and reviews, and produced and performed in VALIA: The Story of a Woman of Courage. She is married to Dick Coleman and she has one son, Julian Steinberg.