Carol Adams
Location: PENINSULA, OH Website: www.caroladams.org Bio: Carol is an installation artist, weaver, enamelist, sculptor and founder of The Peninsula Art Academy. For over 40 years, she has been creating enamel on copper pins depicting wildlife subjects such as animals, birds and insects.
Atomic Earrings
Artist: BOB FIELD Company: Atomic Earrings Location: JAMAICA PLAIN, MA Website: www.atomicearrings.com Bio: Bob designs small wearable sculptures that are inspired by images of micro-organisms such as phytoplankton, diatoms & radiolaria and other natural objects such as seedpods, shells and the many specimens in his cabinet of curiosities. They are 3-D printed
Kinsley Binard
Location: SAN FRANCISCO, CA Website: www.etsy.com/shop/kinsleysglassworks Bio: Kinsley makes beautiful and whimsical images in her etched glass jewelry.
Wilma Burton
Location: COLUMBUS, OH Bio: Wilma’s jewelry is influenced by her African American, English and Native American heritages.
Nancy Reid Carr
Location: KINGSTOWN, NJ Website: www.nancyreidcarr.com Bio: Nancy’s photographic images are quiet and serene with a distinct focus on color, texture and composition. Her simplicity in design combined with the quality of the aluminum she uses to create her jewelry offer a fresh, modern aesthetic.
Earth Dreams
Artist: JACKIE MAGYAR Company: Earth Dreams Jewelry Location: NORTH ROYALTON, OH Website: www.naturedevajewelry.com Bio: Inspired by her love of metalsmithing, art and nature, Jackie found her passion by producing handcrafted jewelry. Gardella Jewelry, started in 1986, is a line of nature inspired sterling silver, copper and bronze jewelry with semi-precious stones. Each original design is…
Renate Favour
Company: Etc Designs Location: WILLIAMSBURG, MI Website: www.etsy.com/shop/Etc2Renate Bio: Renate has been designing for 30 years. The first piece of jewelry she ever made was with a bobby-pin from my grandmother’s bedroom and a nickel.
Alison Fawcett
Company: Allison Fawcett Pottery Location: DAYTON, OH Website: www.afawcettpottery.com Bio: Alison uses porcelain to create functional forms and jewelry. She teaches middle and high school ceramics in Dayton. She earned her BFA in Ceramics at Ohio University.
Lawrence and Audrey Goldsmith
Location: COLUMBUS, OH Website: www.etsy.com/shop/fineartfineglass Bio: For over 30 years, Lawrence and Audrey have made kiln-fused stained glass jewelry and kaleidoscopes, as well as individual art pieces.
Mikelle Hickman-Romine
Location: COLUMBUS, OH Website: www.mikelle.net Bio: Mikelle has been a craft artist and florist for over 20 years, and her work reflects an alchemy of influences. Her jewelry consists of hand-sewn glass seed beads, gemstones, and sterling silver or gold fill.
Jeannie John
Company: Aggie’s Attic Location: MASSILON, OH Website: www.aggiesattic.com Bio: Jeannie and her mother, Aggie, played Scrabble for hours. She was inspired by her mother to follow her dream and her business, Aggie’s Attic, was started in 2007. Jeannie makes fun pendants, pins, and bracelets using scrabble tiles and dominoes, applying found images that are finished…
Jane Kimmel
Location: MT VERNON, OH Website: www.babbleonindustries.com/jbead.html Bio: Jane designs beautiful beaded jewelry like necklaces, earrings and pins in her home studio in Mt. Vernon Ohio.
Mike Kozumplik
Artist: MIKE KOZUMPLIK City: SHERWOOD, OH Website: www.facebook.com/Mike-Kozumplik-Designs Bio: Mike works with sterling silver, 10K-gold, bronze and assorted gemstones to craft his nature inspired jewelry designs. Processes include lost wax casting and various fabricating and finishing techniques.
Edy Seaman
Company: Long Way Home Studios Location: NORTH CANTON, OH Website: www.facebook.com/justedy63 Bio: Edy started as a glass worker but soon began using the enamels to create fun, colorful jewelry. The enamel is sifted onto copper or fine silver, then torch fired to fuse the glass and the metal underneath. She often adds graphite, fine silver…
Lab Partners
Artist: JOANNA SHIPENGROVER JOHN DAVISON Company: Lab Partners Location: COLUMBUS, OH Website: www.labpartnersjewelry.com Bio: The Lab Partners, Joanna and John, combine art, science, history, and technology to create unique, beautiful and interesting jewelry that has a story to tell.
Roxanne McGovern
Company: 3 Graces Jewelry Location: COLUMBUS, OH Website: www.3gracesjewelry.com Bio: Roxanne began collecting beads long before she started making her own glass. Many of her jewelry pieces incorporates several different bead weaving techniques combined with the glass artistry created with the torch and kiln. By blending these techniques, each glass piece is enhanced and takes…
My Beverly Jewelry
Artist: DEANNA GUERRIERI Location: CANFIELD, OH Website: www.mybeverlyjewelry.com Bio: My Beverly Jewelry is a best friend duo creating pressed flower jewelry in Youngstown, Ohio. Most of the flowers used in their designs come from the pair’s home gardens. The work is both simple and unique, and inspired by their love for all things floral, whimsical…
TASI Designs
Artist: TAYA KOSCHNICK Location: PORTLAND, OR Website: www.tasidesigns.com Bio: TASI Jewelry has been handcrafted in Portland, Oregon for over 15 years. Second generation jeweler Taya Koschnick uses sterling silver, 14k-gold, glass, and unique beads in her designs.
Sundrop Jewelry
Artist: TAWNEY REYNOLDS Location: BERKELY, CA Website: www.sundropjewelry.com Bio: Tawney melts glass into “sundrops” in her driveway in Berkeley, California, using a three-foot-tall magnifying glass (technically a fresnel lens) to focus sunlight, which can produce a ‘hot spot’ reaching 3,000 °F. Shaped simply with focused sunlight and gravity, the molten glass naturally forms an elegant…
Carol Wallenfelsz
Company: Jackwind Studio City: MARION, OH Website: www.jackwindstudio.com Bio: Carol is a mixed-media artist, who works with alcohol ink, acrylics, and colored pencils to create her jewelry and artwork.
John Whitney
Location: SARASOTA, FL Website: www.whitneysarasota.com Bio: John and Linda Whitney have been designing beautiful jewelry since the 1970s. Sterling silver and 14K gold were the only materials used for many years in their work, but the pair have expanded to include red brass, copper and nickel silver. They continue to use only hand tools in…
Melissa Woods
Location: Toledo, OH Website: www.melissamariewoods.com Bio: Melissa began creating wire jewelry when she was 16 years old. A graduate of Bowling Green State University, she uses the traditional jewelry making techniques and anodized aluminum to design her bright, beautiful work.
Karen Yassenoff
Location: Columbus, OH Bio: A former elementary-school art teacher, Karen designs unique jewelry using metals including copper, brass and silver.
Copper Twig
Artist: LAURA GOOLEY Company: The Copper Twig Location: ERIE, PA Website: www.coppertwiggallery.etsy.com Bio: Laura is from Erie and spent most of her childhood at Presque Isle. She attended Villa Maria Academy and receive an Associate Degree in Photography from Oakbridge Academy of Art. The imagery in her photography and jewelry embraces tranquil simplicity, rustic elegance…
Russell Stephanchick
Company: Heavy Metal Location: CLEVELAND HTS, OH Website: www.russellstephanchickart.com Bio: A graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Art, Russel has worked as a designer in the automotive, marine, and trade show industries and as a silversmith for over 30 years.
Melissa O’Brien
Location: CLEVELAND, OH Website: www.melissaobriendesigns.com Bio: A jeweler and metalsmith, Melissa received her BFA in metals and painting from Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, Ohio. She has been a studio artist for over 20 years. Her inspiration comes from nature, shapes and forms. She enjoys playing with the use of positive and negative space through…
Essex Glass
Essex Glass by Beverly Burke Eichenlaub
The Smithery
The Smithery by Ann Holman and Jen Townsend
Three Graces Jewelry
Roxanne McGovern Three Graces jewelry