About

Elemental Artisanship Academy was founded from my passion for creating sacred wearable art. My favorite thing about crafting grounding jewelry is that every piece is intentional. When a person wears custom EARTHINGwARE they have adorned their aura in grounding amulets and talismans that interact with nature both externally and internally to raise their vibration. From the start, my goal to foster wellness through my handmade art was clear, and my capacity to achieve it was strengthened over time as I further developed my intuition (Fire), practicality (Earth), intellect (Wind), emotion (Water) and spirit (Time and Space).

By the 5th year of crafting jewelry, I felt slightly stagnant so I took a trip to the Central Library of Philadelphia. On this trip I aligned with two books: one on the human hands and one on the ancestral power of amulets and talismans. Around the same time I was reading a book on the interconnectedness between humans and Earth. Pulling knowledge from these books further ignited my internal Fire (intuition), Wind (intellect) and Water (emotion) and it set into motion an evolution for my brand. Along with new knowledge to share, I now had the language to better specify what I could only feel but not describe in words. This yielded some significant changes in how I approached my art and as a result I saw a difference in how EARTHINGwARE  jewelry was affecting people.  

An evolution was taking place as I intentionally stepped into my power. I become a grounding influencer, began teaching crafting lessons; and most importantly I improved my process for creating and it had a significant impact on the way my jewelry was being received. Customers would express to me how connected they were to their pieces, and that my creations were grounding them, adding affirmations of wellness to their being just as I intended it to. This was a direct result of my deeper understanding for the sanctity of my hands and jewelry culture. And after more years of putting a lot of energy into grounding and crafting, life in spiral motion had even more in store for me. In fact I could feel a rebirth beginning to take place when I became pregnant with my Sun... 

After being a stay at home Mom for a few years I shifted focus to finding a job when I found out that I was having another child (my Sun). Even with my bachelors of arts degree and plenty of experience I was unable to secure a position because I was being gently redirected towards something completely different. During my 3rd month of pregnancy I rose one morning with the idea to create a program for aspiring jewelry artisans. "Jewelry Culture & Sacred Crafting" effortlessly rolled off of my tongue as if it had been brewing in my subconscious for a while. I knew that I wanted to focus on jewelry culture and the hands as a way to genuinely connect the maker with this sacred artform; while offering a unique experience outside of the mundane how-to workshops. Nature is my inspiration and helps to keep me balanced in my creativity so the natural elements became the educational model for a completely balanced artisan enrichment program. Understanding that these elemental factors can be applied to all handcrafters of cultural art, I started Elemental Artisanship Academy with the vision to expand and serve a diversity of artists in addition to makers of jewelry.