Dawn Hatzidakis

Visit Artist’s Website Dawn Hatzidakis is a second-generation metalsmith, wife, and mother hailing from Crestwood, KY, just outside of Louisville, KY. Dawn and her parents share a deep love for jewelry design, and it was Dawn’s mother who first introduced her to the art of metalsmithing. After her career in the corporate world, she embarked […]
Joanna Alot

Visit Artist’s Website Joanna completed her graduate-level studies in art and architecture in Poland. As a student, Joanna traveled throughout Europe. Her travels and the need to travel lightly inspired to create versatile pieces that can be worn like scarves, shawls, tops, blouses, dresses, and tunics. Always traveling with her easel and sketch board, she […]
TJ Martin

Visit Artist’s Website TJ Martin is a new resident of Dowagiac Michigan. Native of South Bend and lived most of his adult life in Mishawaka. TJ is a member of the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi, and from a young age, my mother taught us how to bead & sew. TJ has owned a paintball field, […]
Christine Bush

Christine has lived in British Columbia, Canada, Oslo, Norway, The Florida Keys and now Muncie, IN. She has traveled the world and has a lifetime of experiences to pull artistic inspiration from. She first learned to sew at age 10 by making Barbi clothes. A lifetime of sewing followed, mostly practical items; school clothes, home […]
Claudia Carreon

Visit Artist’s Website Claudia has been designing and creating one-of-a-kind jewelry for over 23 years. For the past 10 years she started a line of scarf and hair accessories. Pieces are made of silver, copper, brass and nickel metals. Natural stones, shells and dichroic glass are used on some of her designs. She also created a […]
Thomas Smiley

Visit Artist’s Website Thomas was born and raised in Rushville IN and later moved to New Orleans LA in 1989. He graduated from University of New Orleans with a BS in Mechanical Engineering, and in 1995 retired from the US Army Corps of Engineers in 2021 after working 28 years and moved back to Indiana. […]
Bobbie Rafferty

Visit Artist’s Website Bobbie Rafferty is a jewelry maker currently living in Chicago who has been working with beads for over 25 years. From a family that now includes its third generation of professional musicians, Bobbie grew up surrounded by creativity and artistic creation. Jewelry making is her artistic expression, and beads are her instruments […]
Amy Butts

Visit Artist’s Website Amy Butts has a BFA in metalsmithing from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and an MFA in sculpture from the School of the Art Institute in Chicago. Amy’s work is wearable, whimsical nostalgia. She creates new life out of old items including chandelier crystals; several decades’ worth of autograph books, diaries and recipe […]
Damen Mroczek

Visit Artist’s Website Damen Mroczek designs and crafts silver jewelry through the age old process of ‘lost wax casting’, which he learned under the tutelage of his father, who has been designing jewelry for over 35 years. Each design is first hand-carved from wax and then cast into sterling silver. He uses only the best, […]