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Sadie Wang, a Niche Award 2000 Winner and three consecutive years Niche Award Finalist, has shown her work in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Singapore as well as across the USA. Known for her narrative hollowware, she also makes wearable, uniquely designed jewelry that is absolutely a pleasure to own. Wang was born and raised in Taipei Taiwan and had come to the U.S. for her college education. She received her B. A. at Indiana University, Bloomington, IN in 1995 and her M.F.A. at Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills MI in 1997.
After receiving her Master degree, she went to Singapore and helped start a Metal and Jewelry program at Nan-Yang academy of Fine Arts. While she was there she was invited to be a guest speaker and participate in an international group show entitled ”Shifting Paradigm” at the Singapore Art Museum.
In 1999 she was invited as a visiting artist to the Appalachian Center for the Crafts, Tennessee Technological University. She then became the Artist-in-Residence in the department of Metalsmithing for the year 1999-2000. During that year, she entered numerous national and international competition exhibitions. In 2000, she had her first solo exhibition at the Yaw Gallery; Birmingham MI. The review of the show was published in the Metalsmith Magazine Show Reviews, Jan/Feb issue 2001. Through her outstanding record of artistic achievement, she applied to be a US Permanent Resident and received approval from the US Immigration Naturalization Services as the “Alien of Extraordinary Ability” in Feb
2002.
She has set up her own studio around the Appalachian Center for the Crafts and started her own production jewelry line there.
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