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| Meet the Artisans |
Born in Evansville, Indiana and raised in Wilmington, North Carolina, Tommy was inspired by his grandfather who was both a watchmaker and jewelry designer for various well known jewelry companies. Tommy started making jewelry at the age of 17.
Tommy's main inspiration was to create wearable art inspired by man and nature coming together as one. Tommy has been awarded three US Patents ...
Jewelry as an artistic expression is how I
describe my work. I have strived to learn and master whatever technique
serves my design purposes. This has led to studies in granulation,
platinum fabrication, glass beadmaking, glassblowing, and fine cast
glass/crystal. My foundation consists in Dental Laboratory Technology; these
skills readily transferred to jewelry methods. A graduate and past...
John
Kennedy began his twenty year journey in search of a new genre
in wearable art at age seventeen. From the genesis of his vision
to today's expansive collection, John has poured his individual passion
for his craft into every beautiful piece he has made. Over the years,
John has refined his skill in innovation with an unwavering commitment
to quality and design.
Born in Sp...
Turtles, tadpoles, axolotls (immature salamanders, to the uninitiated), red-eared sliders, and spring peepers drew me to the rivers, creeks, and swamps of southeastern Minnesota, where I grew up. I haunted the parks and woods with my buddies. We mail-ordered boa constrictors and caimans from Louisiana, and our parents got used to discovering reptiles and amphibians in our heating ducts and couc...
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