"My work stimulates and excites the visual senses
through movement, the manipulation of shape and the exaggeration of the
body."
Dee Fontans is an internationally recognized jeweller,
artist, performance artist and fashion designer based in Calgary,
Alberta.
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…her designs are very eccentric and fun to look at…she seems
to be trying to dispel the old myths about men and women, and get back
to basics of what makes us unique and yet so similar.
With her partner Charles Lewton-Brain, Dee founded and
runs the Lewton-Brain/Fontans Centre for Jewellery Studies. The Centre
promotes education in jewellery skills, techniques and the awareness of
jewellery, body adornment and design. She also teaches in the jewellery
department at the Alberta College of Art and Design in Calgary. She has
exhibited and published in the United States, West Germany and Canada.
Dee studied at the Parson School of Design in New York
City and the State University of New York at New Paltz.
