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Alejandro Rodriguez Pomalaza
  • FieldArt Departments / Jewelry & Goldsmith
  • CountryPeru

 

A great and historic artisan, artist of passion who is regarded as the starting point for Peruvian silver working

 

1. Fine jewelry and silverware inlaid with natural and semi-precious stones and interventions in different materials such as wood and burnt mate through varieties of techniques such as embossing, chiseling, setting, emptying, among others

2. Won the 1979 Artisan Jewelry and Silverware Contest, held by the country's Mining Society, in the 80's he obtained technical knowledge in jewelry at the Artisan Development Center of the Ministry of Education and in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Tourism, and Integration; where he achieved the grade “Instructor-Craftsman”

3. Nowadays, continues to train students of the specialty of Metallurgy and Jewelry of the University Enrique Guzman y Valle, and the Jewelry School of SENATI. He continues to cultivate the goldsmith tradition thorough his children and grandchildren