Nashville Arts Magazine » JEWELRY http://nashvillearts.com Nashville's Source for All Things Creative Thu, 02 Sep 2010 19:07:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Appraise It http://nashvillearts.com/2010/07/30/appraise-it-7/ http://nashvillearts.com/2010/07/30/appraise-it-7/#comments Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:14:25 +0000 NashvilleArtsTeam http://nashvillearts.com/?p=6622 by Linda Dyer | photography by Jerry Atnip

Mary Marguerite Porter Zwicker (Canadian, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, 1904–1993), view of Nova Scotia fishing shacks, watercolor over print on paper, signed “M. Zwicker” in block.

As I struggled in…

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]]> http://nashvillearts.com/2010/03/31/3789/feed/ 0 Spotlight | Atelier Minyon http://nashvillearts.com/2010/03/31/spotlight-atelier-minyon/ http://nashvillearts.com/2010/03/31/spotlight-atelier-minyon/#comments Wed, 31 Mar 2010 16:00:41 +0000 NashvilleArtsTeam http://nashvilleartsmagazine.com/?p=3774

Atelier minyon is a turkish- and New york-based jewelry design

house that will premiere their newest collections here in Nashville at

Cindi Earl Fine Jewelry April 8, 5–8 p.m. Atelier Minyon’s creations

meld the romantic history…

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Native American Woman’s Belt with Pouch.

Northern Plains, Santee Sioux, Reservation Period circa 1920s.

Composed of glass beads, trade cloth, and native tanned hide. This panel belt with matching pouch is…

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Clayton Sumner Price (American, 1874-1950) The Rider, oil on board, signed C. S. Price

Price grew up in a large ranching family in Iowa and Wyoming. An accomplished carpenter, homesteader and horseman, C. S. Price was 31 years old…

]]> http://nashvillearts.com/2010/02/03/appraise-it-2/feed/ 0 Margaret Ellis | Can’t Buy Me Love http://nashvillearts.com/2010/02/02/margaret-ellis-can%e2%80%99t-buy-me-love/ http://nashvillearts.com/2010/02/02/margaret-ellis-can%e2%80%99t-buy-me-love/#comments Tue, 02 Feb 2010 17:24:15 +0000 NashvilleArtsTeam http://nashvilleartsmagazine.com/?p=2123

Love is an intangible. Often characterized as a gentle, soft emotion, it is strong enough to break the most sturdy of hearts. It is, nonetheless, invisible.

Perhaps this is why we turn to tokens…

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Pyrite and marcasite have almost identical physical properties, making it difficult to distinguish them apart unless you are a mineralogist. Adding to the confusion…

]]> http://nashvillearts.com/2009/11/04/appraise-it/feed/ 0 Jingle, Jangle, Jewelry http://nashvillearts.com/2009/11/04/jingle-jangle-jewelry/ http://nashvillearts.com/2009/11/04/jingle-jangle-jewelry/#comments Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:01:22 +0000 JeffStamper http://nashvilleartsmagazine.com/?p=1052 Get ready to be charmed! In the following pages Nashville Arts Magazine features five local jewelers, each with a…

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