Go local for your holiday gift giving!
If you are looking for a unique piece of jewelry for yourself or as a gift for someone consider jewelry created by BKF Designs in Commack.
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Barbara KrugerAudiologist Barbara Kruger, Ph.D., is BKF. Pursuing her creativity is not new to Dr. Kruger having grown up with parents who encouraged both her creative and scientific sides. What is new is the amount of time she has to pursue her creative ;)
BKF Designsside. Barbara’s ability to focus on designing jewelry is a product of cutting back on her prestigious scientific career as an audiologist.
Professionally Dr. Kruger has served as Director of Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology in the Department of Otohinolaryngology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the Montefiore Medical Centerr, Assistant Professor of Audiology, Columbia University, and Director of, and Clinician in, the Speech-Language and Hearing Program of the Special Education Department of the Brooklyn Diocese. She also served as Consultant Audiologist at the Suffolk Rehabilitation Center in Commack, New York. In 2006 Dr. Kruger sold her audiology practice, Audiology and Communication Services. In addition to practicing audiology on a smaller scale, she does some consulting and lecturing in audiology.
Dr. Kruger’s second career evolved from the application of skills from her first career in Audiology and her ;)
BKF Designsfamily’s myriad of interests in art, music, dance, and design. “In audiology, one needs to know how to draw, make impressions of small circuitous curved ears and make or reshape the hearing aids or ear mold to fit comfortable in those curved ears. It’s just a small leap for me to designing and making jewelry.” She watched ;)
BKF Designsher parents doing silversmithing and lapidary as hobbies in their retirement and enjoyed sharing design ideas with them. About seventeen years ago with the sudden death of her mother, she began to pursue her interest in jewelry design. She studied with Felicia Liban. Sandra Kravitz and Kathleen DiResta. She has taken workshops with Steve Artz, John Cogswell, Amy Roper Lyons, Dennis Nahbetian, Linda Kindler Priest, Kathryn Osgood, Barbara Siedenath, and Marcus Synnot.
Barbara specializes in creating colorful enamels and cloisonné in sterling silver and mixed metal settings, some with stones to add balance or accent to the designs. Often the modern, free form style has an analytic base. ;)
BKF DesignsHer jewelry continues to evolve and takes many forms. Her love of color, texture, shape and design radiates from her jewelry art pieces. In addition to cloisonné pieces, there are inspired arrangements of gem stones in intricate settings in silver or mixed metal, or with gem stones or lapidary stones (some self-cut and shaped) set in a series of simple settings. Some pieces with color and texture are made from diachronic glass. Some distinctive enamel pieces focus on depth, texture, and color with dramatic designed shapes. Some of these distinctive pieces include cloisonné’ with silver settings with accent gemstones. Some of the texture is from etched or milled patterns and riveted found items with a steam punk style.
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BKF DesignsSo where does the name BKF Designs come from? As you may have guessed the BK is Barbara Kruger and the “F” is for Fred, Barbara’s husband of forty-seven* years. According to Barbara, “Fred is a technical and design advisor and critic.”
You may view Barbara’s jewelry Saturday, November 16 th at the Long Island Craft Guild’s “A Fine Craft Fair”. It is available on consignment in stores, at parties, and on exhibit in several galleries such as The BJ Spoke Gallery, The Second Avenue Firehouse Gallery, and The Phoenix Gallery. Contact Barbara at BKF Designs
*Corrected the Krugers are married forty-seven years not thirty-eight as previously written.