Jewelry

Joan Hester / Mountain Modern Jewelry Joan Hester is a cloisonné artist and silversmith whose work brings together ancient techniques with a fresh, modern sensibility. She creates jewelry in silver and gold, often accented with semi-precious stones that add depth, texture, and color to her designs. Each piece is both carefully crafted and artfully composed, […]

Denise Harrison / Sterling Echoes Denise Harrison specializes in creating unique and custom-made fine jewelry pieces using high-quality materials such as sterling silver, gold, diamonds, and gemstones that capture and preserve memories. Her creative process involves transforming inspiration from photographs, drawings, or even everyday objects like a glass of beer into wearable pieces of art.

Mary Jo Weiss / Josepha Fine Art Jewelry “I enjoy the process, the way a piece evolves and takes on a life of its own. To start with materials and a concept and see where it takes me, being spontaneous, always learning and exploring in the process. In the end, I hope to create a

Sara Krempel For over 45 years, Sara has been working in non-ferrous metals. Her fascination with metal working continues because the number of techniques and the combinations of techniques for working with metal is an endless exploration. Sara Krempel is professor emeritus at Central Oregon Community College where she taught jewelry/metalwork, ceramics and three-dimensional basic

Anne von Heideken As a child, Anne loved to collect rocks and today she finds herself collecting the treasures to create “wearable art.” Drawn to jewelry making after a trip to the Southwest, Anne became inspired by the Native American women of the Pueblos who work primarily in turquoise, shell, coral and hand carved fetishes.

Larissa Spafford For as long as she can remember, Larissa has been making some form of jewelry. In 1998, fresh out of high school, she discovered her passion for lampwork glass bead making. She has been happily expressing her creativity and love of color ever since. Larissa has shown her jewelry at juried fine art

Julia Kennedy After a career as a journalist and a high-tech marketer, Julia indulged her creativity by learning to bead. During the past decade, she has shown her jewelry at many juried art shows across the Northwest. Julia’s art is called beadweaving: sewing tiny and larger beads together with a needle and thread. She uses many