Bio

Olga Starostina is a Houston Metal and Mixed Media artist, born in Moscow, Russia. She moved to United States to procure her master’s degree in Library and Information Science at LSU.

Upon graduating and moving to Houston Olga studied jewelry at the Glassell School of Art under Sandie Zilker for more than 9 years studying all aspects of traditional metalsmithing from fabrication to casting to advanced jewelry and special topics. Casting has always been her favorite metalsmithing process. During her experimentation with free casting aluminum, she fell in love with this underappreciated metal, which stated her career as an art jeweler.

Olga has exhibited throughout North America at the Franz Mayer Museum in Mexico City, Museum of Art and Design (MAD) in New York, Indiana University at Kokomo, Velvet da Vinci in San Francisco, SNAG in Toronto, Equinox Gallery in San Antonio, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft and the Glassell School of Art in Houston.Olga’s work is in a number of private collections throughout Texas.

Currently, Olga continues to combine her science and art education working both as a jeweler/mixed media artist and as a Business Systems Analyst at MD Anderson Cancer Center. Cancer Center.