“Environmental Reruns” is the inviting name attached to the new collection of precious metal jewelry from the fine craft studio of Judy-Lee Carpenter to be discovered at The Jewel Box, Eureka Springs, on October 11.

When Judy is not teaching at the Eureka Springs School of the Arts, she may be hip-deep in an Ozark mountain stream looking for the perfect “found” stone for a new bracelet she has visualized. In fact, other artifacts she finds may inform her crafting of a new pendant or brooch to be uniquely finished in 14k gold or silver.

Judy-Lee Carpenter Jewelry Collection

The artist/craftsman will join with her sculptor husband, Sonny, in the creation of a collaborative work to be displayed exclusively at The Jewel Box. No stranger to exhibits, Judy-Lee Carpenter’s fine metal objects have been seen at The White House and Tiffany & Co. in New York City. Linger with the artist during the Second Saturday Stroll, October 11 from 6 to 9 pm.

The Jewel Box, a charter member of the Eureka Springs Gallery Association, 77 Spring Street. Remember to ask about free parking, and visit www.artofeureka or call 479-253-7828 for information.

Eureka Springs Gallery Association - Stroll the Galleries Contest

Stroll the Eureka Springs galleries Saturday, August 9, 2008 through Saturday, September 13, 2008 and you have a chance to win a $500 gift certificate!
Have your card punched at all nine of our galleries between the August 9th and the September 13th Second Saturday Gallery Strolls. [...]

Popular methods of making art glass jewelry include lamp work and fused glass. Lamp work, usually used to make beads, involves melting and shaping glass with a torch. The fused glass method involves firing a piece of glass at three different ranges of temperature to create relief, depth and shape.

Glass is a hard material, normally fragile and transparent as used commonly in our daily life. It is composed mainly of sand or silica and an alkali, soda ash or limestone (calcium carbonate or dolomite).
These materials at high temperature are in a molten viscous state and will fuse together. They are cooled rapidly to form [...]

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