From Kim's website:

"Kim Nogueira is an automaton maker and art jeweler who received her education apprenticing as a production goldsmith for 16 years, and continues to deepen her skill level with intensive workshops taught by renowned masters in the field. Her BA in sociology from Smith College supports the thought-based explorations that undergird her wearable narrative art practice. Kim's work has been in juried and curated exhibitions both abroad and nationally, such as the Museum of Arts and Design’s MAD about LOOT, and her work can be found in periodicals and books, such as 1000 Beads, Behind the Brooch, Narrative Jewelry: Tales from the Toolbox and volumes 2 and 3 of the Society of North American Goldsmiths’ annual compendium Jewelry and Metals Survey. Her home base for the past quarter of a century has been the tiny sub-tropical island of St John, in the US Virgin Islands."