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About Chris Higgins

Chris Higgins, designer and craftswoman

Art was always in the backseat in Chris’ career but ever present.  She earned her BA in business at East Carolina University and a minor in Art.  Then completed her MBA in marketing from University of West Florida. After a 30-year career in which Chris was a senior executive for firms in venture capital investments, technology business development, and pharmaceutical global digital marketing, she left Philadelphia to pursue her passion for art.  While working with Digitas Health, a member of Paris-based Publicis Groupe, she formed her silversmith business, Fishbone Designs, in her home and honed her metalworking skills with Moore College of Arts in Philadelphia. Chris left the corporate world in 2009 to move to Carolina Beach and in 2011 was able to fulfill another goal when she opened Artful Living Group with partners Mo Linquist and Janet Knott.


Chris has silversmith training from Moore College of Arts and Design in Philadelphia, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, and Penland School of Crafts in Penland, NC.


Each one-of-a-kind item is fabricated using sterling silver, brass, copper, and gold. Unique stones and gemstones from around the world are highlighted by the textures of the metals.


About Fishbone Designs

Chris Higgins designs and creates all  the pieces in this collection. Each one-of-a-kind item is fabricated  using sterling silver, brass, copper, and gold.   Unique stones and  gemstones from around the world are highlighted by the textures of the  metals. 


Fishbone Designs reflects my mixed Japanese and Cherokee  heritage with a balance of colors and shapes to create simple yet  striking jewelry. I enjoy working with sterling silver because it has an  energy that changes with the design through textures and colors.  The  stones I use are precious and semi-precious gems and polished  natural stones from wonderful lapidaries around the world.


I embrace the aesthetic values of "Wabi-sabi", beauty in imperfection. "Wabi connotes rustic simplicity, freshness or quietness, and can be applied  to both natural and human-made objects, or understated elegance. It can  also refer to quirks and anomalies arising from the process of  construction, which add uniqueness and elegance to the object. Sabi is  beauty or serenity that comes with age, when the life of the object and  its impermanence are evidenced in its patina and wear, or in any  visible repairs.


My  studio is now located at 1003 Bennet Lane Suite N, Carolina Beach, NC  where you can come visit and watch my designs come to life.


Fishbone Designs is sold through shops and galleries.


My  executive  assistant,  Jolene,  is  waiting by  the phone  to  take  your  orders   


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