Seth’s jewelry career began early in his father’s stained glass studio where he fashioned jewelry from scraps of discarded glass. He decided at an early age that he wanted to be a jeweler, and began to receive regional design awards for his jewelry as a teenager.
Seth attended the Savannah College of Art and Design and earned a BFA in metals and jewelry in 2007. While at SCAD he acquired a love of both silversmithing and goldsmithing techniques while exploring alternative and conceptual processes in the creation of body adornment and object making. Following his Undergraduate education he was a silversmithing instructor at a summer camp in Maine in addition to working as a bench jeweler. Seth spent fiver years working as a studio goldsmith in Rochester, NY while also exploring new work as an artist in residence at the Rochester Institute of Technology. While he has been creating work for sale since an early age he officially registered Seth Michael Studio as a sole proprietorship in 2009.
Following a move to Chicago, IL in 2013, Seth earned a graduate degree in art therapy form the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. While a graduate student, Seth led a metalsmithing group on Chicago’s south side for teenagers and wrote his thesis on the therapeutic benefits of metalsmithing. After graduating with a MAAT he worked as an intensive Outpatient Art Therapist in Chicago. In 2019, Seth lived in Hong Kong for four months as an artist in residence with Loupe – a design incubation space sponsored by Chow Tai Fook Jewelry. Seth and his wife, Rosa, moved to Philadelphia in 2017 where they continue to live with their two children and four cats. Seth continues to work full time as a sole proprietor of Seth Michael Studio.