Hsiang-Ting Yen
Hsiang-Ting Yen’s love of jewelry started at early age. Just like every little girl, she loved to play with her mother’s jewelry. She was drawn to the fun geometric shapes and the bold colors, especially the 80’s clip resin earrings. Years later, she began to collect her own jewelry when she was in college. As a maker, she was fascinated with the idea of making her own jewelry and fortunately in 2006 she was introduced to “Beginning Metals and Jewelry” class in her junior year. As soon as she held that jeweler’s saw in her hand, she knew she had found her calling.
In 2012 she received her M.A. and M.F.A. degrees in Metals and Jewelry from Savannah College of Art and Design. During the three and half year of my graduate school training she created one of kind jewelry not only for her loved ones but also for clients that she met at the Philadelphia Museum of Art craft shows. She truly enjoys the sense of achievement that comes from knowing how much joy her jewelry brings to her clients. She became absorbed with the challenge of problem-solving and brainstorming designs and making the jewelry. She didn’t want to stop. In order to continuously share her passion with the world she founded HTY Jewelry in 2013 in Raleigh, NC.
