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< Back Georgia Talent Ekaterina Domashchenko graduated from Georgia Tech with a business degree before she ever stepped foot in a jewelry studio. Soon after graduating with an unfulfilling degree she took her first metalsmithing class and fell head over heels for it. Years of beading and wire work prepared her for jewelry design but Ekaterina's primary inspiration comes from the sculptural capacity of metal. Her work often features intricate sawed out leaves, flowers, and trees, and wax cast elements as well. Ekaterina Domashchenko

< Back Visiting Artist Personal adornment is not merely accessorizing. It’s a connection, a provoked feeling, a historical leap, and a transporter of being. My work as a maker expresses and integrates history of place, people, and materials. I believe that it’s all connected... that we are all connected. I strive to bring that oneness into each object I create. My jewelry is a narrative conceptual sculpture that is both architectural, organic and talismanic. My energy as a maker integrates the mountains and desert alike into each treasure. They are powerful and seductive bold forms that bridge my environment, my material and my history and the red thread connection I have with the wearer that was meant to be experienced by the select few. I hope you will enjoy my handcrafted work and become part of my relations. I have been teaching metals, glass and ceramics for over 25 years. I owned two paint your own pottery stores, Paint Yourself Silly, for 10 years, a coaching business, Artful Success, where I helped artists with their business, and a tool and supply company, Whole Lotta Whimsy, for 10 years. I was a senior teacher for Rio Grande for 10 years and have been teaching metals since 1996. I have been published in several books and many magazines. I also have a fantastic group on Facebook that I started in the summer of 2020, Jewelry Makers Guild where artists share their work, their issues, and their tools to share and help others. I believe that community is what makes everyone a better artist and human. That together we can do so much more than we can alone. http://tonyadavidson.com https://www.instagram.com/therealtonyadavidson/ Tonya Davidson

< Back Visiting Artist As a working jewelry artist, I have exhibited my craft at fine art and craft shows and through galleries, for 20+ years. I am a metals instructor at Lill Street Art Center and at The Art Center of Highland Park in the Chicago area. https://bernasconidesign.com https://instagram.com/bernasconidesign Linda Bernasconi The Sun-Smart Collection Linda Bernasconi Button View More

< Back Georgia Talent Caroline Flournoy is a north-Georgia based metalsmith. She holds a B.F.A. in Jewelry and Metalsmithing from the University of Georgia and Advanced Stone Setting certifications from Stuller Inc. Caroline approaches her studio practice through a lens of play. Her interest in body ornament flourishes through subjects such as texture, material collaboration and humor. Her biggest inspiration is any cartoon dragon sleeping over a hoard of gold and she hopes to one day amass a similar collection. Caroline Flournoy

< Back Visiting Artist Graduate Jeweler, Revere Academy, 2000-2004 Graduate Gemologist, GIA, 2004 Sam has studied with many world renowned metal artists in workshops. He worked for two established jewelers as assistant from 2005-2012 and has been showing his work with galleries and at wholesale and retail shows for over 10 years. https://www.instagram.com/samwoehrmann/ Sam Woehrmann The Sun-Smart Collection Sam Woehrmann Button View More

< Back Visiting Artist Suzanne Williams is a Colorado resident. She graduated from Colorado State University in 1980 with a BFA in printmaking and later worked as a graphic artist, illustrator, fine artist, and technician in art/bronze casting foundries before beginning her jewelry-making career in 1990. In the past 32 years she has shown her signature 3-dimensional work in many galleries, art festivals and group shows, and has more recently been teaching workshops, particularly with a focus on designing and creating novel and unconventional clasps and closures. http://suzannewilliamsjewelry.com https://www.facebook.com/suzannewilliamsjewelry/ Suzanne Williams

< Back Georgia Talent (He/Him/They/Them) is best known as the Office/Studio Manager of the Metal Arts Guild of Georgia office and studio. He has been making jewelry since he was a small child, but began learning silversmithing skills in community art classes, now continuing to learn and create in his home studio. Rian is an apprentice at MASS collective, studying both woodworking and larger-scale metalworking, welding, and blacksmithing. Rian is also a photographer, and an airshifter on community radio. Rian Archer

< Back Visiting Artist Jennifer Wells is a studio artist and educator originally from the U.S but currently living in Italy. She holds an MFA, in Metalsmithing & Jewelry Design and has completed artist-in-residencies at: Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in Gatlinburg, TN, Pocosin Arts in Columbia, NC and the Jentel Foundation near Banner, WY. She has worked for several U.S based Craft Schools, in a variety of roles. As an educator, Jennifer has taught for and been a visiting Artist at Universities throughout the U.S and for study abroad programs based in Italy. She serves on the Board of Vita Institute and teaches short workshops on various enameling and metalsmithing techniques throughout Europe and the U.S. In recent years she has curated multiple international exhibitions focused on jewelry and enameling. Her works have been featured in multiple publications and are in the collections of the Enamel Arts Foundation, Racine Museum, All Russian Museum of Decorative Arts, Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, Yale University Art Gallery, Crocker Art Museum, The Metal Museum and Private Collections. http://www.jennwellsstudio.com https://www.instagram.com/jennwellsstudio Jennifer Wells

< Back Visiting Artist Nash Quinn is a metalsmith who specializes in pattern-formed enameled vessels and smallscale spring-based mechanisms. Originally from Wyoming, he earned his BFA from the University of Wyoming and his MFA from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania. He teaches, lectures, and exhibits his work at craft schools, universities, and jewelry institutes nationwide. Nash currently lives in Houston, TX. http://nashquinn.com Nash Quinn

< Back Visiting Artist Jennifer Stenhouse is an artist, metalsmith, and instructor living in Seattle Washington near the waters of Puget Sound. She grew up in Atlanta Georgia, spending as much time as possible around the coast of Georgia and Florida combing the beaches for treasure at every given opportunity. Her work includes jewelry and sculpture that is inspired by the beaches, ocean, world mythologies. She has been teaching art and jewelry classes, live and online workshops, lecturing, and exhibiting throughout the U.S. and Mexico for over 25 years. Recognized as an outstanding educator and known expert in the arena of jewelry casting, Jennifer has more recently taught at the college and adult continuing education levels and is co-founder of Little Metal Foxes online jewelry courses. Currently she also works as a production jeweler and is doing research toward a book on the History, Timeline, and Technology of Jewelry Casting. Jennifer received her BFA from the University of New Mexico, and MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She began teaching while in New Mexico, and UW- Madison, leading to a professor position at Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD,) in Foundations and Jewelry classes as an elective. Due to the strong interest from students wanting to major in Metals and Jewelry, Jennifer proposed and developed the Metals and Jewelry Department, and served as chair for several years. While in Savannah she also maintained a small studio in the historic City Market. Afterwards she was teaching jewelry and printmaking at the Vermont Art Exchange in North Bennington, VT. Later she would contribute teaching in Seattle at locations including North Seattle College, Pratt Fine Arts Center, Danaca Design, Tacoma Metal Arts Center, and Bainbridge Artists Resource Network. She has also served as advisor for planning and safety to studios and programs like SCAD, Pratt, NSC, and BARN jewelry studios. https://stenhousestudio.com/ Jennifer Stenhouse The Sun-Smart Collection Jennifer Stenhouse Button View More

< Back Georgia Talent Beth Kirtland began taking jewelry classes after working in Corporate America for several years. She discovered new passion and talent, and has been consistently polishing her skills (and silver!) over the last 10 years. After experiencing a life-altering injury and recovery, Beth’s perspective of priority and purpose dramatically changed. Her artistic design exudes positive energy and joy. In her transformation, she not only creates, but also shares her ability and enthusiasm with others. https://pickledmalarkey.com/ https://www.instagram.com/pickledmalarkey/ Beth Kirtland

< Back Georgia Talent Rachel has been in the jewelry business since 2003, graduating from Savannah College of Art and Design in Metals and Jewelry. Originally from Ohio, she spent 10 years on the Gulf in Florida where she had a storefront business for 5 years, until the birth of her first daughter. Since moving to the Atlanta area in 2012, she now has a home studio where she is a ghost jewelry for another line, as well as fabricating her own designs for her own line, Nectar Jewelry. Rachel Vanatta