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Jewelry - Alternative Materials

3 Modular rings
Medium: Fabricated sterling silver with powdercoated copper. Each approximately 1.5" x 1.5" x .75" and $490
Artist: Lou Ann Townsend

Autumn Perfect Tree Brooch
Medium: Fabricated oxidized sterling and 18k Bi-metal brooch set with wool felt.
Artist: Michele Friedman

Big Bad Jumble necklace
Medium: Powdercoated aluminum on stainless steel cable with sterling silver tension casp
Artist: Lou Ann Townsend







Circular Convergence Neckpiece
Medium: Soft, woven stainless steel cable with black, gunmetal, 24k gold, sterling silver and bronze nylon coating interwoven with 14k gold fill tubing to create structure. Finished with a magnet clasp.
Artist: Meghan Riley

Cuff Grouping
Medium: This is a grouping of powder coated stainless steel cuff bracelets in different colors. These materials permit flexibility to fit most wrist sizes.
Artist: Melissa Stiles

Cylindrical Necklace
Medium: 17.5" long sterling silver chain with 5" of 3/4" cylinder beads in varying lengths made of powdercoated aluminum and sterling silver
Artist: Lou Ann Townsend

Deuce
Medium: Earrings made using found automotive steel. Five different vintage cars were used, each retaining the original car paint. Every layer was hand cut, punched, formed, and constructed using cold connections and traditional metalsmithing techniques.
Artist: Pyper Hugos

Dots & Stripes Earrings
Medium: Hollow forms made from artist etched sterling with artist laminated and carved ebony & holly. 18k gold accents.
Artist: Carla M Fox

Duality Pendant
Medium: Hollow-formed sterling silver & wood pendant. Wood is ebony, holly, dyed poplar. Wood has been dyed, laminated, & carved by me.
Artist: Carla M Fox

Fractured Circle Brooch
Medium: Fabricated oxidized sterling silver brooch set with wool felt.
Artist: Michele Friedman

Hollow Form & Striped Wood Earrings
Medium: Hollow-formed, etched, patinaed, sterling silver top with ebony, holly, dyed poplar wood.
Artist: Carla M Fox

Lasso Necklace
Medium: This necklace is made from stainless steel framework filled with hand pigmented resin. It is hung from a double strand stainless steel cable with silver clasp.
Artist: Melissa Stiles

Layered Chevron Brooch
Medium: Fabricated, oxidized sterling silver brooch set with wool felt.
Artist: Michele Friedman

Long Hanging Earrings
Medium: These earrings are an asymmetrical combination of colors made from hand pigmented resin with aluminum bezels that are connected with a stainless steel cable and hang from silver ear wires.
Artist: Melissa Stiles

Mobius Strip Earrings
Medium: Small line segments are formed from nylon-coated stainless steel, sterling silver and 14k gold fill to create geometric shapes and then eventually forms that are lightweight, flexible, and adapt to the wearer.
Artist: Meghan Riley

Modular Ring Grouping
Medium: These rings are made from hand pigmented resin that is embedded within a metal framework. The silver band is soldered to the bezel that contains the resin pattern.
Artist: Melissa Stiles


Multi-Necklace Explosion
Medium: Multiple neckpieces layered to create a tableau. All fabricated from nylon-coated stainless steel cable interconnected with 14k gold fill tubing.
Artist: Meghan Riley

Sail Away Neckpiece
Medium: Soft, woven stainless steel cable with bronze nylon coating interwoven with 14k gold fill tubing to create structure. Finished with a magnet clasp.
Artist: Meghan Riley

Squared Up
Medium: Pendant made using found automotive steel. 5 different vintage cars used, each retaining the original car paint. Every layer was hand cut, formed, & constructed using traditional metalsmithing techniques & fusion welding. Hand fabricated steel chain.
Artist: Pyper Hugos

Sunrise Pendant
Medium: Sterling (artist etched) hollow-form with laminated ebony and holly. Findings artist made. Stainless steel cable.
Artist: Carla M Fox

Suspension
Medium: Cuff bracelet created using a 1960 Rambler and a 1967 Ford Falcon, both with the original car paint left intact. Each strip was hand cut, formed, and constructed using cold connections and traditional metalsmithing techniques.
Artist: Pyper Hugos

Swing
Medium: 5" x 2.5" Powder coated aluminum drop on 18" blackened hand made sterling silver chain
Artist: Lou Ann Townsend

Tagua Earrings
Medium: Hand carved tagua nut, ink, torch toasted and set in 22k gold bezels with oxidized sterling silver backplate and wires.
Artist: Karen Klinefelter

Tagua Nut Neckpiece
Medium: Hand carved tagua nut, dyed, toasted with torch and embellished with prismacolor and ink. Set in hand fabricated sterling silver setting . With grey pearl
Artist: Karen Klinefelter

Tagua Nut Ring
Medium: Tagua Nut, hand carved, dyed, toasted with the torch and drawn on with colored pencils, set in hand fabricated sterling silver and 22k gold setting.
Artist: Karen Klinefelter

tagua pendant
Medium: Hand carved tagua nut, toasted with the torch and embellished with prismacolor and ink. hand fabricated oxidized sterling silver setting.
Artist: Karen Klinefelter

Two Tone
Medium: Pendant made using found automotive steel. 2 different vintage cars used, each retaining the original car paint. Every layer was hand cut, punched, formed, & constructed using traditional metalsmithing techniques & fusion welding. Fabricated steel chain.
Artist: Pyper Hugos

Zinnia Brooch
Medium: Oxidized sterling silver brooch set with wool felt.
Artist: Michele Friedman