Our master jeweler, Janet Vitkavage, a 1975 graduate of Hofstra University with a BS in Fine Arts and a concentration in Metalry, Summa Cum Laude.

Janet began her career as an apprentice jeweler at Tiffany and Company in 1975. She provided many of the models for Elsa Peretti and Angela Cummings. From 1975 to 1985 Janet taught jewelry design and fabrication at the Jewelry Institute in Manhattan as well as working at Benches that made jewelry for the finest stores, museums, and galleries in New York . From 1985 to 1994 she worked for David Webb specializing in Webb's signature animal designs.

Janet joined EF Watermelon full time in 1996 and has built beautiful jewels with the gemstone collection of EF Watermelon. Truly a master jeweler she will design and fabricate with clients to achieve the heirlooms of the future.