Biography
Lisa Croneberg (b. 1965) is a self-taught beadweaver with an education in fine art from Brown University. She comes from a family of artisans and artists, musicians and writers: the need to add beauty to the world has shaped her trajectory since childhood. She earned an M.F.A. in Poetry from Warren Wilson College in 2002, and has published in a number of journals, The Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, and The American Scholar among them. She has been the recipient of poetry fellowships from the Ragdale Foundation in Lake Forest, Illinois, and from the Bread Loaf Writer's Conference, in Middlebury, Vermont. She has a background in the theater arts as well, having worked as a costumer at the Folger Shakespeare Theater in Washington D.C., the Goodman Theater in Chicago, American Repertory Theater in San Francisco, and many other regional theaters.
In her work as a jewelry designer, Croneberg incorporates vintage beads and components into her pieces as well as semi-precious stones, freshwater pearls, and mother of pearl. She has traveled as far as Istanbul, South Africa and Rome in search of unusual materials for her pieces, which she exhibits locally. She is a colorist who appreciates the fact that discord is contained within harmony: she named her jewelry venture after the Hindu concept of leela, meaning sport, or play, which describes the divine dance of the universe, the balance of opposite cosmic forces. She is especially fond of the idea that our work here on earth is to play, and it is in that spirit that she creates her one-of-a-kind adornments.
In her work as a jewelry designer, Croneberg incorporates vintage beads and components into her pieces as well as semi-precious stones, freshwater pearls, and mother of pearl. She has traveled as far as Istanbul, South Africa and Rome in search of unusual materials for her pieces, which she exhibits locally. She is a colorist who appreciates the fact that discord is contained within harmony: she named her jewelry venture after the Hindu concept of leela, meaning sport, or play, which describes the divine dance of the universe, the balance of opposite cosmic forces. She is especially fond of the idea that our work here on earth is to play, and it is in that spirit that she creates her one-of-a-kind adornments.