Aurélie Guillaume reinterprets the traditional art of enamelwork by incorporating elements drawn from street art, comic books, and popular culture. Whereas artists of past centuries adorned these objects with religious scenes, she now transforms them into contemporary illustrated works—often wearable—that come to life through the enamel-making process.

Trained in jewelry design and metalwork at the École de joaillerie de Montréal and NSCAD University (Nova Scotia), she has participated in over 60 exhibitions across North America, Europe, and Asia. Her works are featured in an impressive number of national and international museum collections.

Born in Armenia, Gayane Avetisyan trained in fine arts before teaching at an experimental school during the post-Soviet era. Driven by intellectual curiosity, she deepened her knowledge of art history and philosophy, then moved to Vienna on a scholarship in 2001. Now based in Montreal, she dedicates her practice to creating enamelled jewellery, blending traditional techniques with experimentation. Her pieces — sensual and expressive — are true sensory territories worn on the body.

A contemporary jewelry artist, Jamie Kroeger explores memory and emotion through material, form, and composition. By combining textile techniques (weaving, sewing, braiding) with precious metals and alternative materials, she creates intimate and tactile objects. She currently teaches at the Alberta University of the Arts (Calgary) and holds an MFA (University of Wisconsin-Madison), an MFA (Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo, Norway), and a BFA (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign). Her work has been exhibited in Canada, the United States, Europe, and Asia.

Jan Smith is an artist who works with vitrified enamel in combination with modified and textured metals. Jan’s jewelry and metalwork utilize traditional enameling techniques alongside contemporary methods, allowing her to explore imagery and mark-making. Smith’s work possesses a tactile delicacy, and the marks create an invented language or code—a code that allows her to establish a dialogue with the natural world. Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Smith holds dual Canadian and American citizenship. Jan earned her BFA (Bachelor of Fine Arts) from the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design in Halifax, Nova Scotia; she studied artistic metalwork and enameling in the United States.

The inherent physical properties of fine steel wire allow the artist to explore various delicate structures that interact reciprocally with positive and negative spaces, while creating volume, texture, space, colour and shadow within her work.

Kye-Yeon Son earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1979 from Seoul National University in Korea and a Master of Fine Arts in 1984 from Indiana University in Bloomington, United States. She is the recipient of the 2011 Saidye Bronfman Award, one of Canada’s prestigious Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts. She has been teaching at Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University, in Halifax since 1995.

Malika Rousseau is originally from the Outaouais region and now lives and works in Montreal. Trained in visual arts at UQAM, then in craft arts — jewellery at the École de joaillerie de Montréal, she weaves at the heart of her practice a constant dialogue between artistic approach and artisanal expertise. She also shares her knowledge by teaching at the ÉJM, while continuing to refine her technical skills through specialized workshops.

Mengnan Qu holds a BFA from NSCAD University and earned her MFA in 2015 from the State University of New York at New Paltz, supported by a full scholarship. She currently teaches in the jewellery department at NSCAD.

With a gaze that is both perceptive and sensitive, she has developed a practice nourished by a diverse cultural and academic background, which grants her a singular perspective. Her work offers a reinterpretation of Western society through the lens of traditional Chinese culture, while casting a renewed eye on Chinese society within an international context.

Noore Saleh, an Egyptian-Canadian artist, graduated with honors in 2019 from the École de joaillerie de Montréal, with a degree in jewelry design and artistic metalwork. After serving as a teaching assistant in continuing education courses at the School of Jewelry while working on personal creations in their spare time, Noore then enrolled at NSCAD University to further their studies in jewelry design and artistic metalwork. Noore has exhibited in galleries across Quebec, with recurring themes exploring the fragility of mental and physical health, emphasizing resilience in the face of these challenges.