Collective brings local artists together to work and sell Artists tend to be right-brain thinkers, and jewelers are no exception to this assumption. They’re inventive, visual and imaginative. There’s at least one area, however, where the jewelry artists of the Methow Valley Jewelers Collective (MVJC) lean toward left-brain analytical, mathematical and strategic thinking: their understanding […]
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Methow silversmith crafts delicately detailed botanical jewelry
By Marcy Stamper Nicole Ringgold has dedicated herself to making intricately detailed botanical silver jewelry, from textured maple spinners to buds on crab apple twigs and delicately curving fern fronds. So it was a resounding testament to the authenticity of her work when Ringgold received a recent commission for hemlock-cone pendants for a memorial dedicated […]