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Jeff Brock was born in Michigan and raised by artistic parents. His mother, a weaver and basket maker, and father, a designer, builder and racer of custom motorcycles, Jeff mastered skilled trades in metal fabrication and industrial electricity early in his adult life.
At the age of 39, Jeff sold his successful business in Michigan and moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico to dedicate himself full time to the arts. In Santa Fe, Jeff began enlarging sculptures for other artists, including Star York. Jeff and Star worked beautifully together on several of Star's monumental sculptures. A year later, they married.
"I am as moved by an abstracted Shamanic spirit drawn on a cave wall with a rock, as I am with any beautiful form of modern, contemporary art. They are the same for me. We are artists who need to speak with our hands through visions."

Jeff and Star continue to work together on all of Star's monuments, as well as share their individual artistic visions. Jeff's lifelong interest in anthropology, archaeology, and geology are naturally evident in his gem and stonework. For both Star and Jeff, the appreciation for the earliest expressions of mankind is apparent through their art.
And through that shared vision, a marriage of a different sort evolved: a marriage of bronze and stone.

Influenced by the artisans of Stone Age tribes worldwide, coupled with a mutual affinity for animals, and inspired by early effigy, fetish, and ceremonial artistry, the two will combine their visions to create a unique sculpture each fall.
Constantly charging and recharging each other's creativity with everything from studies of primitive cultures to their love of animals and nature, their collaboration was a natural evolution.
After working together for years on Star's bronze monuments, Jeff and Star have found a shared vision. Star and Jeff are listening . . . and learning . . . and gratefully sharing.

Nancy Brown’s reverance for materials is recognized by her audience as a mark of the exceptional artist, and one “who paints in a palette of gemstones upon a canvas of silver or gold.”

Nancy Brown began the career of artist-goldsmith after several years of focused studies to teach professionally. Nancy taught in California before settling in Santa Fe in April of 1973. Having received increased recognition for her work over several years, by the Fall of 1980, following her first exhibition, Nancy’s reputation for creating exceptional work paved the way for her to become an established and valued artist.

Lorraine Yapps Cohen was born in New Jersey.

She comes to the art world following a 30-year career in research & development and business, working for companies like G.D. Searle, Merck and Exxon. Lorraine has two Masters degrees—an MS in Chemistry and MBA in Marketing and most recently she was an Assistant Professor of Innovation and Rider University.

Lorraine’s real love is in design and the aesthetic arts. She has combined her technical background, her work in metallurgy research, and the management of innovation to cultivate her creative skills in jewelry design. Internships with goldsmith Valeria Johnson from Lambertville, NJ and wrap designer, Reggie Paysinger from Houston, TX enabled Lorraine to develop fabrication techniques that complement her own experimentation with metals, stones, and pearls to yield truly unique jewelry creations.

Lorraine lives and designs from her studio in Durango, Colorado

“Colorado has brought a new vision to my designs because here we experience so much more of earth’s geological splendors. New ideas flow freely. Design constraints are removed. Indigenous materials become wearable art.”

“I need to be excited by the finished piece. I need to experience the WOW, the thumping heart, and the jolt of excitement at the emergence of a stunning new design. You know it’s good by looking. Only pieces with WOW factor leave the bench.”

Israel is a country of contrast and convergence: an intersection of cultures and the crossroads for trade since the dawn of time. Ancient traditions thrive within modern life. Today camels are juxtaposed with jets and ancient texts are explored as fervently as the frontiers of modern science. The wisdom of the ages provide a solid foundation for innovation. This is fertile ground for creative minds.

Drawing inspiration from these influences, contemporary Israeli designers combine old world craftsmanship with leading edge technology.

Nelly Kohn, a graduate of Haifa University with a Masters in Art and Modern French Poetry taught art at Yanccodada Museum in Ein-Hod, Israel. Nelly, with her husband Simon, started the Cherie Dori Collection.

The fruit of these artists' efforts are meticulously crafted in 14k and 18k gold. Their sophisticated, clean, modern designs reflect the ancient knowledge of geometry, proportion, and aesthetics. Timeless beauty is revealed in a fresh new way.

For forty thousand years, beads and jewelry have been important to mankind and are represented in all cultures from all times and places. They have been worn to enhance beauty, as talismans, to communicate social circumstances, tribal affiliations, status, and religious beliefs and used as a medium of exchange in barter. Made of durable materials, they are well represented in archeological record.

Scott Diffrient, a forerunner in the world of contemporary bead making, has much influenced the course of his craft. A self-taught jeweler and lapidary and recognized for excellence, his works of art reside in collections of bead enthusiasts throughout the country and are prized as treasured personal adornments as well as highly valued collectibles.

The desire to live in a creative and harmonious way, the profound reverence for the beauty into which man was born, as well as the beauty born of the hand of man, have been his greatest inspirations. Scott has been living and working in the Santa Fe area since 1973, creating jewelry for galleries and private clientele. Santa Fe, like a museum overflowing with art and artifacts from all times and places, has provided constant inspiration.

Scott is a contemporary artist who is willing to invest the time and exactitude necessary to produce such fine works. His artistry, enhanced by his love of ancient cultures, imparts an ancient charismatic power to each piece. These “Modern Artifacts” have a life and a personality that mirror the lifestyle and values idealistic to ancient cultures, where human qualities held high esteem. He uses his medium to communicate ideas of purpose and lifestyle to aspire to, including a conscious effort of self-beautification, representing the political and social values of the wearer.

At a time in history where ecological and social conditions obviously need scrutiny, demanding a new vision and learning from past cultures as to values and lifestyles is intimated in Scott Diffrient’s work.

Gusterman’s of Santa Fe began as Gusterman Silversmiths of Denver and Georgetown, Colorado. The business began in 1950 when Stig and Astrid Gusterman migrated from Stockholm, Sweden to the mountains of Colorado. After the premature and untimely deaths of their parents, Kerstin and Britt took over the family business. After 31 years in Colorado they relocated to Santa Fe. The two sisters decided to bring their traditional Scandinavian simplicity and artistic creations to the turquoise laden southwest.

Over 75% of their merchandise is produced in house. They take pride in the quality of their work, and after 24 years of working side by side in Santa Fe, Britt and Kerstin are more than sisters and buisness partners, they are close friends. Filling their roles, Britt continues to invent new designs along with silversmith, Susan Barlow, and Kerstin distributes and markets their art with a laugh and a smile.

You will surely find the jewelry of the Gusterman sisters to be unique and exquisite in its craftsmanship, and purity of fluid design.

Kai Gallagher was wild and adventurous from the get-go. The sun infused desert, watermelon stained mountains, and soft adobe structures of New Mexico served as the backdrop for her most loved childhood memories and sustained her with their primitive raw beauty and subtle haunting colors. She felt she belonged to this land and it to her.

“My rock story begins with simple cardboard shoeboxes. I collected specimens of pink quartz, chips of blue and green turquoise, ancient shell and fern fossils and big lovely sheets of mica (my favorite). I believed that my collection and my connection with rock were truly special. I still feel this way. Gratefully so.”

Kai graduated with honors three times and has a Master’s in Education, two BA’s, and a true love of literature, poetry and foreign languages. She taught at both the graduate and elementary levels. Her travels have taken her to Europe, South America, Mexico, Guatemala, Canada and China.

“I love the journeying, exploration and the relinquishing into trust that comes with the adventure of travel.”

Kai met Bruce Eckhardt, a talented lapidarist, who reintroduced her to the beauty of natural stones and encouraged her to explore her own creativity. She began her lapidary journey with a beginner’s mind and returned full circle to her passion for rocks.

Her goal is to bring forth the inherent beauty of each stone while maintaining its structural integrity. Kai cares about balance, color and clean design in her work and uses exclusively high-grade natural turquoise and gemstones.”

“My life, as well as my art, is an evolution of my soul. I trust that stone, in some form will always be a part of that evolutionary process. I am grateful for the desert and mountain beauty that continues to inspire me, to my journey, just as it is, to my teachers and to my hallmark KAIZEN, which means ‘on going progress involving everyone’.”

Alfred Lee Jr. of Shiprock, New Mexico, is an outstanding Navajo beadsmith. He is the oldest of two brothers and has a natural talent for bead making. Little did he know that this artistic talent would become a full time career.

Alfred Jr., has been inspired by his father Alfred Lee Sr., who is an award winning Navajo silver and goldsmith. Alfred Jr. has decided to carry on the family tradition and business, that has a nationwide reputation.

His distinctive and stylish creations are eye catching. The traditional and contemporary styles he uses blend with age old designs, the beauty of natural turquoise or coral is often blended with the gleam of gold. Alfred is noted for only using rare and high quality stones with 14k gold.

Don Lucas is a renowned silver jewelry designer. Since 1974 he has hand crafted sterling silver jewelry and continues to produce unique designs that are cherished by all who know his work.
All of Lucas’ work is hand crafted and set with the highest quality stones. He carefully chooses each stone to ensure the best possible look. He uses unique and vibrant color combinations that are stylish with any ensemble. He wants people to feel luxurious when wearing his creations, “I believe that to wear my design is to bring to life exquisite color and style.”
Don Lucas designs have received recognition in prominent areas such as Sante Fe, Los Angeles, and New York.

Douglas Magnus has been a professional designer/goldsmith for over 25 years, working as a bench jeweler and diamond setter. His sense of design is rooted in the natural world around us where the artificial boundaries of politics and property do not apply, and in the still point within each of us where all things connect. As a result, his work often seems eclectic, with ties to many cultures.
Douglas creates many individual pieces with unusual stones and arrangements, and also makes limited productions. The limited productions are made one at a time with full attention to setting and detail, resulting in heirloom quality.
Magnus got interested in turquoise in the early 1970’s and began designing and creating turquoise and silver jewelry. Today he owns the oldest turquoise mines on the continent. Today he heads a successful silver and gold buckle and jewelry business.

Doug Moore, “Cowboy” to some, “El Tigre” to others, has been designing jewelry for over ten years. Born in Roy, New Mexico, he has had an interesting life. In college, he was a rodeo cowboy and founded the Rodeo Team of Eastern New Mexico Portales College. He rode bare back buckin’ broncos and some bulls. He was in the banking business for 18 years, once married and has one son. He managed a Premier Horse Breeding Farm, Buenas Suerte, in Roswell, New Mexico which produced the most expensive Quarter Horse to date, Easy Jet was syndicated for 30 million dollars. Doug has met with success and with determination. He has come full circle in his life with his jewelry and art.
Doug’s clean lines and elegant inlay of colored stones, semi precious stones and opals met with instant success with the jewelry galleries and collections in the west. He shows mostly in Colorado, Texas, New Mexico and Santa Fe. All of his jewelry designs are made exclusively in Santa Fe and Albuquerque. He also has many scouts throughout the world searching for the unique stones, semi precious and opals.
Rosarita, a unique material used in his inlay work, it is actually a bi-product of refined gold, and has obsidian/glass features and is a deep blood red color. The horse shoe pendant (cowboy design) is unique because of the detail of the cleet, which is used for traction while the shoe is on the horse. He uses intricate inlay of various stones or pave’ cut diamonds for a more elegant look.
Doug lives in Albuquerque and shares his time in Santa Fe. He is an avid collector of Western Fine Art, and an avid reader of any or all travel and fashion magazines. He enjoys keeping current with “what’s out there”. Doug has always been inspired and attracted to jewelry in all its many forms and beauty. His passions are horses, custom made cowboy boots which he calls “slippers” and he sums it all up by saying “If it’s not fun, I ain’t gonna do it”.

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Mary and Doug Hancock are Mummy’s Bundle. The Hancocks live in Sedona, Arizona. This is a place where natural beauty and remnants of ancient Indian cultures continue to provide inspirations for their artistic expression.

As creator of the Mummy’s Bundle, the Hancocks blend a universal love for the past, informed by Doug’s archeological fieldwork on Mayan ruins and an ongoing connection to early southwestern cultures, with Mary’s refreshing grasp of texture and design. A mix of past and present that resonates with those who collect their distinctive form of wearable art.

For over fifty years, Northern Cheyenne artist Ben Nighthorse has created beautiful, award winning jewelry designs using the finest gemstones and precious metals.

Ben Nighthorse moved to Tokyo in 1960 to train for the 1964 Olympic games, where he captained the U.S. Olympic Judo Team. In Japan, his interest in metal working grew when he studied under a Samurai sword maker. He began to develop techniques of laminating metals and jewelry designs which were heavily influenced by his time in Asian culture. This can be seen today in his world class work.

After he moved back to the United States, he and his wife, Linda, became champion horse trainers. his love of horses, and animals in general, helped him to create new, innovative designs. American Indians often believe that a person can inherit some of an animal’s virtues by wearing an image of it. That is one reason why noble animals have always played an important role in Nighthorse designs.

Ben Nighthorse also started to focus on using finer materials in his jewelry which were more desired by his European collectors. He uses only the finest natural gemstones, and insists on using 18 karat gold and sterling silver.

Gloria is a self-trained fine jeweler who has become skilled in the talents of lapidary, metalsmith and engineering. Combining these skills with her creative craftsmanship, Gloria has become well known for her inlay work work in rings, earrings and pendants.
Her visionary skills have produced a line of reversible jewelry pieces that capitalize on her design, inlay and engineering skills to form a unique and versatile collection that dresses up or down with a simple movement of the hinged elements.

Carol Salomon has collected beads from around the world and imaginatively creates distinctive beaded jewelry. She has participated in the Main Street Arts Festival, Art Ole at the Durango Arts Center and has sold her jewelry at boutiques in St. Louis and Atlanta. Carol will collaborate with a client to create customized pieces with style and grace.

A former owner of an Interior Landscape Company in St. Louis, Carol designed interior spaces with greenery for corporate office buildings. The name Creative Greenery has now been transformed to Creative Beadery.

Pam Springall is a self-taught artist who stumbled upon her life’s passion for beading by chance. Early in her artistic career, she was buying trade beads from Gambian merchants, which she sold and used for various styles of masks and medicine bags. It wasn’t until she accompanied a friend to the Denver bead show, that she was introduced to the amazing variety of beads and stones that could be available to the creative eye. Then she and her son accompanied a local Danish bead merchant and friend to experience the world of Eastern bead culture first-hand. Through their travels in Bali, Thailand, Katmandu, and India, she feels her eyes were truly opened. As a result, she became impassioned by understanding the quality and history of the beads she encountered, and she became one of the first American women to sell Thai silver.

Besides her involvement in bead-working, Pam also hand crafts her own unique silver beads and cones, as well as her signature clasps. She creates these miniature sculptures through the lost-wax casting technique. She pairs these unique creations with a myriad of colorful and vibrant beads and stones, always staying true to her devotion for the highest possible quality materials. In her designs, she strives to showcase the materials rather than clutter the simple beauty of the stones with complicated combinations. Pam says that she wants to create beautiful pieces that are unique and striking, but entirely wearable.

Pam Springall resides in Glorietta, New Mexico, “with the bears” in the mountains around Santa Fe.

Ray Tracey is internationally renowned and respected as one of the most recognized contemporary Native American jewelers.

Ray Tracey was born in Ganado, Arizona. A full-blooded Navajo, he made his first piece of jewelry when he was ten years old. By the age of 21 he was a professional jewelry artist.

Tracey is self-taught in the American Indian tradition. The skills are passed down from generation to generation. He has also taken classes at a prestigious jewelry school in Memphis, TN.

Tracey lives and works in Albuquerque, NM and employs five artists, all Navajo in his studio. His inspiration comes from many places, but he has designed a lot of jewelry on restaurant napkins and paper table coverings. He says he cannot sit down and force a design to come to him, but it will happen when he is golfing or playing with the kids, or eating—especially chocolate.

His designs start with a creative thought and then the talent and work come in to help expand on that inspiration. Tracey has had his share of ups and downs during his artistic career. But he continues to move on and create new work, never resting on his laurels.

“Designing jewelry is a gift. It’s a god given talent. The inspiration hits me. Without it, I can’t design my way out of a paper bag,” Tracey says.

Juan Velasco was born in Bolivia in 1942. He studied in Bolivia and Argentina, and came to the USA for college in 1961. He received a B.A. in Business in 1965; US citizenship in 1966 and was also drafted that year. He served as an officer in the US Navy from 1966 to 1969, and received his Masters from Thunderbird Graduate School of International Management. From there he worked on Wall Street until 1974. After that Juan moved to New Mexico.

“Do in life what you really love to do - fulfillment and money will come," is the advice Juan gives. His passions in life are his wife Suzanne and his son, Adrian.

Juan has been designing jewelry since 1986, and involves artisans in his birth country of South America to cut stones and do some preliminary silverwork. Juan puts together and finishes the pieces in his studio in Santa Fe, and is proud of every handmade item. Juan has worked with stones since he was young, and he is now using Chinese turquoise, Afghan lapis, South African sugilite, Mediterranean coral, Mexican spiny oyster shell and others. The jewelry is all hand made. The piece is first constructed in silver (sometimes gold). The stone is then cut to fit the exact shape. It is set and the stone is then dry ground to match the silver and finally it is polished. Most pieces have hinges, which provide nice movement and flexibility.

Juan has an avid audience for his jewelry. His clean simple lines make his jewelry eminently wearable, no matter what area of the country you find yourself in. He keeps his prices very reasonable, and clients often go home with several of his pieces at a time.

Families have been known to bond in many different ways. For the Yellowhorse family, fine jewelry design is the common denominator. Artie Yellowhorse is of Navajo decent. She is of the “Kee a a ono” ( “Towering House”) clan. The influences of the Navajo culture are readily apparent in this beautiful, wearable art, which evolved from generations of artistic talent. Artie is a third generation silversmith. She was greatly inspired by her mother and grandmother, both of whom were renowned weavers.

Artie resides in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Her two daughters, Desiree and Lei Lani are involved in the creation and design of the jewelry with their mother.

As the tradition continues, Artie hopes that the Yellowhorse designs of today will live on to inspire the young artists of tomorrow.

Zina’s love affair with design began when she was just twelve years old, working for her father in his New York jewelry factory.

In 1973 she began involving herself with the new movement of emerging young designers who recognized the limitless possibilities of working in sterling silver. Her sense of style and fine ability to contribute to the future of modern women, enabled her to develop a remarkable collection of innovative and sophisticated pieces.

One can immediately recognize the signature style of Zina, by its exquisite and architectural grace and glamour. The successful interplay of semi-precious stones and enamel, with surfaces and textures contrasting against the smooth planes of silver, is what makes her work so unique.

She is determined to introduce jewelry that can truly be carried over “from the boardroom to the ballroom."