2013 Saul Bell Award
Finalist in the Gold/Platinum category for “Coral Bell” pin
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The quote in the book reads: “Nature has always been my main inspiration, and having the opportunity to design a pin featuring the carved, bi-color tourmaline was an instinctive process. Using one of the many heuchera (coral bells) plants in my garden as a starting point, I could visualize the finished design, and then I just had to figure out how to build it.”
2013 Best of Jewelry
For excellence in presentation & quality of work
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2012 Metalsmith’s Exhibition in Print
Gothic Jewelry: Sinister Pleasures
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“Gothic Jewelry: Sinister Pleasures” was the theme for Metalsmith magazine’s 2012 Exhibition in Print. The guest curator was Valerie Steele, the director of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. Following the publication of the Exhibition in Print, a select group pieces formed a traveling exhibition showing first at SOFA Chicago, November 2-4, 2012, and then on to the National Ornamental Metal Museum in Memphis, Tennessee, for an exhibit running December 7, 2012 through March 10, 2013.
2010 Benchmark Award
For excellence in presentation & quality of work
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2007 NICHE Award
Jewelry: Gold with Stones category for “Empress I Pendant”
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2005 & 2006 Best of Jewelry
For excellence in presentation & quality of work
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2004 Jewelry Arts Award
First Place in Earrings category for “Petal Earrings”
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2004 Jewelry Arts Award
Second Place in Pendants/Necklaces category for “La Primavera”
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2004 Saul Bell Award
Grand Prize Winner overall & First Place in the Gold/Platinum category for “La Floraliere”
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1999 Vision Award
Second Place for “Ocean Pin”
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