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Old Hand Shop
In an increasingly AI generated world, the art of hand fabrication remains important and sought out. Connection with materials and the labor of creating with ones hands cannot be reproduced in another manner. It is knowing where your stones came from, what practices were used when they mined and cut. It is recycling metals, using fine materials that won't degrade over time. Of all the things we buy in our lifetime, jewelry is one of the few that will last decades beyond our life. It should be made with quality and integrity, and the art form of metal working should be explored and tested.
The Artists
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Laine is a jeweler and engraver. She apprenticed to learn the art of jewelry fabrication and repair, acquiring old techniques that made jewelry a trade skill for centuries. She takes joy in the small details of fine jewelry, and is inspired by the creativity borne out of resourcefulness.
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Karla is a graphic designer, letterpress printer and artist. She prints on 19th century presses, drawing from a large library of vintage images and type. Her inspirations come from the traditional and historic while keeping an awareness of contemporary culture.
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Marianna Haniger is an artist working in clay. Her sculptures reflect her relationship to the world around her both politically and environmentally. Conflating elements from nature with the human experience. Creating a dialogue with the viewer that questions and reflects upon the experience of life.
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Betsy has had an art practice since she was a little girl. She works in many mediums: watercolor, letterpress printing, collage, free-form needlepoint and more. Miniature book making (content, design, printing, binding) is her current obsession. Oh for the joy of it.
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Kim has been a designer and sewer of clothing for the past 26 years. She first started selling out of her art supply store, where she had set up her machines alongside canvas, oils, watercolors, acrylics, sketch pads, pencils, pastels, and clays. Maybe you bought her shirts and jackets at the Lopez Farmers Market in the summers, though now she currently creates cat dolls from scraps of this and that and wool blankets made from her vintage wool stashes.