Nadine Kariya

Nadine Kariya spent the first years of her life in Japan which she credits with setting the aesthetic standard by which she judges all art. She earned a BFA in metal design from the University of Washington in the early 1970s and sold her first piece of jewelry shortly thereafter. She has worked primarily in metals, occasionally including found objects such as fossils and animal bone as well as carved wood which she uses to create artworks that reference stories through symbols and icons. The Bainbridge Island Museum of Art presented a retrospective of her work “Nadine Kariya; The Hammer and the Peony” in 2017. She is a member of Northwest Designer Craftsmen, Seattle Metals Guild, Society of North American Goldsmiths, and the Northwest Bead Society.