About

Zoe Holtzman is a metalsmith and jewelry artist, currently located in Berkeley California. She graduated from California College of the Arts, with a BFA majoring in jewelry metal arts. Her work combines her memories and connections to nature and land inhabited by both herself and her ancestors. Having grown up in the Bay Area, much of her inspiration began from her experiences gardening and enjoying nature from a young age. She is of Chinese, Hawaiian, Norwegian, and Ashkenazi Jewish decent, so much of her work is also inspired by the many cultures she comes from and the native plants and animals from those regions. She continues to make work about nature, with an emphasis on her interest in human interaction and the environment. She hopes to be able to raise awareness about the state of nature due to negative human impact, as well as bring back old techniques and understandings of nature that her ancestors practiced, many of which have been almost completely lost to colonization.