Luckenbooth
While I was in Scotland, I discovered an interesting piece of traditional Scottish jewelry, luckenbooths. A symbol of love and devotion, luckenbooths are brooches that were given as a gift to a bride from the groom on their wedding day,…
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Edinburgh Conquests…
While I was recently in Edinburgh, I visited The Antiquity Shoppe. Although I was on a specific mission to find antique coins to add to my travel bracelet, I ended up finding so many more treasures at The Antiquity Shoppe!…
Travel Bracelet
While my mother was away in England, I found myself wrist-deep in her jewelry box. On my quest for something to borrow, I came upon an old bracelet made out of coins from various countries. It must have been someone’s…
New Commission!
I was recently asked to create a set of 5 necklaces for a woman to give as gifts to the bridesmaids in her wedding. I decided to abstract the couple’s names and use that as the direct source for the…
The New Materiality at the Fuller Museum of Craft
A review in last Sunday’s providence journal sparked my interest in the Fuller Museum of Crafts current exhibition, The New Materiality: Digital Dialogues at the Boundaries of Contemporary Craft. The show presents work that, although made by traditional craft artists,…
Take my breath away…
I was in the middle of giving a soldering demo during tonight’s CE class at RISD, when I was so distracted that I had to stop teaching all together. The culprit: this amazing Scottish stone necklace that one of my…
Bizarre review of Objectified
I read this Washington Post article, and I was confused. Then I was disappointed. Now I’m confused again. In any event, I’m not too proud to not share an unfavorable review for Objectified. It seems to me that the format…
The Hope Diamond
Yeah, so I totally fell prey to all the hype surrounding the Hope Diamond, and I went to go see it on my whirwind tour of D.C. The 45 carat diamond is currently on display at the National Museum of…
Brian Jungen exhibit at the National Museum of the American Indian
While I was in D.C. recently I spent a day touring the mall and the Smithsonian Museums. I’m pretty proud of myself for seeing four monuments, three museums, one gallery, and the White House (much less impressive that I’d imagined)…
Alloy Gallery Showcard
Here is the show card from the opening at Alloy Gallery last week. If you couldn’t make it to the opening, be sure to swing by this summer, Tamar has a great group of artists exhibiting there and my work…