CONTEMPORARY JEWELRY : Making other crafts jealous.

I have been thinking so much about all the wonderfully LARGE jewelry I saw folks sporting at the recent SNAG conference, so when I saw the recent photo shoot on the Art Jewelry Forum Blog by Jennifer Cross Gans the other day, I was happy to relive some of the high points. Here I am in my Arthur Hash necklace. (The reflector pin on the right is one I swapped with Lloyd Herman!)The big grayscale pin on the right of Betsy Douglas' bosom is the one piece from SNAG that I really can't get out of my mind, so I'm thrilled to be able to show it to you. It's by Marjorie Schick and is such a simple, elegant painted canvas piece with a stick pin to hold it in place. It also has a full spectrum reverse side for two--count 'em, TWO!--wearing options.

Here's Jillian Moore (above) wearing one of her ambitious plant critters.

And, just to turn the tables a bit, I found this great image of Jennifer Cross Gans (above) herself from another website. There are more great portraits by JCG at the AJF site, but I'll leave you with one of my all time favorite SNAG photos by Mike Holmes (see below.) Taken at the Bellevue Arts Museum, this baby is hungrily eyeing one of the wearable pieces from Exhibition in Motion.