In this time of unprecedented anxiety and separation, I’d like to offer some worldwide togetherness and help. While I’m on lockdown and healthy, I’m opening up my studio via Zoom on Friday, March 20 at 5pm EDT. There will be time for some tech/design Q&A and a bit of camaraderie. I’ll also take requests for…
I sincerely hope you and the people you care most about are safe and well wherever you may be. There are lots of posts and newsletters going around acknowledging what a difficult time this is. I’d call it crazy, potentially terrifying, highly stressful, and chaotic for most people around the planet. But hey, I’m never…
There is a fabulous George Carlin comedy routine from the 1970’s or 80’s that has always made me laugh from the moment I heard it on vinyl. It’s entitled “A Place for Your Stuff.” [You can watch it here at your own risk. Explicit language at the end.] Little did my young self realize that…
I have a reputation for making lots of art and getting absurd amounts of things done. I’m super organized and mostly on top of things. That woman behind the curtain, however, might be a bit more chaotic that I let on. In an effort to curb the stress I’ve been working at not being such…
Me: I’ve fired my boss. My son Skyler: “Uh…but don’t you work for yourself?” Me: “Yes, as I have done all your life and for many years before that.” Skyler: “So you’re firing yourself?” Me: “Yes.” Skyler: “So you’re quitting working?” Me: “Hell no. You like going to college don’t you? And living indoors? With…
The Christmas I was five years old, family friend Roddy Noll gave me the coolest, weirdest board game that quite literally changed my life and set me on my path. Without this gift and the kindness I was shown as a young child, I wouldn’t be a metalsmith, and I wouldn’t have the privilege of…
Like the line, “The galaxy is on Orion’s Belt” from the movie Men in Black, it is, in fact, possible to wear the universe on your wrist. “Like wearing the universe on your wrist” is how Jane Milosch, founder and Director of the Provenance Research Initiative and juror for CraftForms 2019 described my Russian filigree…
