Zhuwei Lu was born in a suburb of Shanghai, China. After

graduating from high school, she went to college in Wuhan to

learn the traditional Chinese art of lacquer. After college she

chose to pursue her dream of becoming a jewelry designer

and she came to the United States to study jewelry design at

the Savannah College of Art and Design.

The new world gave her a broader mind and she learned a

lot of different and interesting techniques such as metal

casting, enameling, stone setting, the most intriguing

technique for her is electroforming, a technique she was

attracted to because it transforms the intangible into the

tangible and grows a very interesting texture, and she

gradually came up with her own philosophy of jewelry design

through trial and error.