Artist Statement 

Ellen Wieske is an artist who works in many materials.  Primarily a metalsmith she worked in the Detroit jewelry industry for 18 years as a jeweler/stone setter/designer. Ellen shows her work and teaches internationally. She received an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art. Currently Wieske maintains Dowstudio with her wife, potter Carole Ann Fer in Deer Isle on the coast of down east Maine. She is also the Interim Director at Haystack Mountain School of Craft.