B Street Studio :: About

B Street Studio was started in 2001 as a way to display creative endeavors and keep loved ones in touch. The latter is now done with social networking and blogging and  this website is transformed into an artistic business outlet. With several decades of experience between the two of them in the areas of fine art and photography, Jude Silva and Georgianna Kruse-Silva hope to share with you their expertise.

Jude Silva

Jude Silva launched his design and marketing career with a BFA degree from the University of Santo Tomas in Manila, Philippines. He started his creative design career with an export company, Hochelaga Corporation, in Manila, illustrating and producing prototypes for tote bags and stuffed toys. Jude advanced to production manager of 80+ employees, manufacturing his designs, which were all exported to Montreal, Canada. He then moved to Lakan Exports, designing products using hammered galvanized sheet metal that were hand painted in oil and sold to prominent importers, such as Pier 1 in the US and Peter Martin in the UK (some products reached as far as Whitby in northern England).

Jude Silva taught advertising arts at Panday Sining, a prominent private art school in Manila, and was a thesis advisor to several graduate students. He was then recruited by the Museo Pambata, the first interactive children’s museum in Southeast Asia.  Based in Manila he initially was a concept developer/designer for one of its major theme rooms and then ran its programs department until he moved to the United States.

Now residing in the San Francisco Bay Area, Jude is currently the Art and Media specialist at Avalon Academy, a school for special needs students in Burlingame, CA. He has an interest in illustration using mixed media, and creating short films.

Georgianna Kruse-Silva

Georgianna Kruse-Silva has 15 years photography experience, starting as a photography editor and photographer at her university paper. She worked at Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive (www.washingtonpost.com) editing news photographs while continuing as a freelance photographer. Transitioning from all film cameras, Georgianna mostly shoots with a Canon 20D, only using a medium-format camera for certain portraits or scenes. The majority of her experience is in travel and wedding photography.

An avid researcher, she compliments her images with information into a photo-journal, both a visual and written representation of places visited. Based out of the San Francisco Bay Area, she collaborates with magazines and publishers to create travel books. She is often asked by engaged couples to capture their nuptials on film. Georgianna enjoys reviving old photos and presenting them in an appropriate format. She has been known to organize her friends’ boxes of photos into albums.

Georgianna is a public high-school science teacher at Carlmont High School in Belmont, CA. She completed her undergraduate work at George Mason University, with a degree in biology, going on to finish a Masters in science education at San Jose State University. She enjoys traveling, walking, reading nonfiction, and baking.