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Doing Common Things Uncommonly
Name: Kathleen (Kate) McNichols-Marks
Title: Principal
Company: Marks of Design, 500D Howe Avenue, Shelton
Web site: None
Age: 33
Education: B.F.A. (Metalsmithing), State University of New York/New Paltz; completing studies in gemology from Gemologists Institute of America
Best movie seen this year: Life Is Beautiful — “It was an extremely thought-provoking movie about love of one's family and the protection of such in a Nazi war camp.”
Outside interests: Creating. “Goldsmithing is my true love, but I like rallying my family to do fun, creative things.”
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Business New Haven
4/3/2000
By: BNH
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Although her retail shop has been open less than six months, McNichols-Marks has worked out of her home studio for ten of the past 15 years that she worked full-time during the day for other establishments, always striving for the ultimate goal: a business of her own.
“Even if it seems unrealistic at the time, strive for the ultimate goal,” is what she would advise others.
“Those baby steps are most important in setting yourself up for the future,” McNichols-Marks says.
While she's been a metalsmith for years, now she's received the recognition her efforts merit. McNichols-Marks earned the 1999 Vision Award from the American Pearl Co. for the beauty of a ring she designed. And sales, she notes, have quadrupled since shortly after opening her shop.
She says she is inspired by this George Washington Carver quote she keeps framed in the store: “When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.”
Always an artist, McNichols-Marks' interest in metalsmithing was born when she took a class in college because she needed another credit. “It was the path I never knew would fulfill my creative needs,” she says. “I loved the touch and the tools.”
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