Fitzgerald Jewelry

Specialties

Fitzgerald Jewelry is a gallery, store, and school all in one located in the heart of Williamsburg Brooklyn just off Bedford Avenue L Stop on Grand street between Driggs & Roebling Avenues. Grand Street is a great shopping street filled with small boutiques and arts & craft shops. One of the only streets untainted by commercial takeover of Brooklyn. Our new space functions as a gallery exhibiting work by local, national, and international artists as well as collections from award winning jewelry designer Michael Fitzgerald and his wife Hiroyo Fitzgerald. The space also houses the Fitzgerald Jewelry School and Workshops.

History

Established in 2009.

History

Established in 2009

Meet the Business Owner

Michael F.

Business Owner

Michael Fitzgerald attended the national College of Art and Design in Dublin, Ireland. He studied a wide range of arts and crafts before finding that Jewelry was the medium he had most interest in. After graduating in 1990 with honors, he joined an EU sponsored program of further study in the Centro de Arte and Comunicao in Lisbon, Portugal. There he studied with the renowned jeweler Terese Seabra, this was also his first introduction to co-​operative jewelry studios.

Upon returning to his native Ireland in 1991, he proceeded to set up Rubicon studios with several other well known Irish Jewelers. Over the next several years Michael developed his ranges and skills, exhibiting both commercially and in galleries nationally and internationally. In 1992 he was named Irish jewelry designer of the year for his collection of wearable perfume bottles.

In 1999 he was granted a special merits artist visa at which point he set up a studio in NYC which he now runs with his wife Hiroyo Fitzgerald.