Arline Fisch: Fisch Out of Water March 10, 2010

Among the most respected designer craftsmen in her field, San Diego artist Arline Fisch has had a long, distinguished career as a maker of jewelry and body adornment and is recognized as an innovator in adapting and applying fiber techniques to working in metal. She has often made large-scale jewelry and adornment that occupies large portions of the body, but this is her first major installation -- life-sized re-creations of specific jellyfish species and other objects that suggest sea anemones and coral -- more than one hundred, fifty objects, all crocheted from color-coated copper wire.