All of which led to my further investigations of craft disciplines and their larger connections to our lives through culture, tradition, material use, function, and community. While studying woodworking as an undergraduate, I was introduced to jewelry making/metalsmithing, ceramics, and textiles. This led to my studying furniture design at SDSU with Wendy Maruyama for my bachelor's, and at the Rhode Island School of Design with Rosanne Somerson for my MFA. He said you could not volunteer at stores, but that a young lady named Wendy taught furniture design at San Diego State University and I should go study with her. I walked into the shop one day and asked the owner if I could volunteer at the store. My first solo apartment, at the age of eighteen, was above a midcentury furniture store, and I became interested in furniture from staring through the shop windows at night. Having grown up in an environment in Mexico where everything was put to use, I was drawn to artistic expression that was fully functional. At what point in your life did you first learn about your field of work? What called you to it?
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