The final deadline for this year’s Halstead Grant competition is fast approaching. Applicants must submit materials by June 9th. The long Memorial Day weekend is a great opportunity to focus on your grant application and get it sent off in the mail. The Halstead Grant awards a $6,000 prize package to a new US silver [...]
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Wraptillion: Aerospace Industrial Jewelry at its Finest!
How can you combine industrial aerospace hardware and chainmaille techniques? See what one of last year’s Halstead Grant finalists creates with this fascinating combination. Meet the talented Kelly Jones of Wraptillion.
2011 Grant Finalist: Fehrenbach Jewelry
Deborah Marie Fehrenbach is inspired by scuba diving and gardening. Her pieces showcase her love of nature with pearls, gems and stones intertwined with gold, silver and copper. Deborah is the author of “The Art of Resin Jewelry,” published by Lark Books. She has studied jewelry fabrication at six institutions including Holland Lapidary School and [...]
Dive In to Gogh Jewelry Designs
Meet another 2011 Halstead Grant finalisty, Gogh Jewelry Design, and learn why a specialty niche can be just the foothold you need when you start a jewelry business.
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
This guest blog comes from Layne Freedline, the 2011 winner of The Halstead Grant. Read how the grant affected her and her business last year. The deadline for the 2012 grant competition is June 9th.
Call for Entries: The 7th Annual Halstead Grant for Silver Jewelry Designers
Apply to the 2012 Halstead Grant for new silver jewelry artisans and you could win a $6,000 prize package!
Filomena Demarco Jewelry
Meet one of last year’s Halstead Grant finalists, the talented Ashley Vick of Filomena Demarco Jewelry.
Ellen Himic Designs: Glamorous Jewelry for Sophisticated Women
Meet a talented emerging jewelry designer and Silver Finalist for the 2011 Halstead Grant, Ellen Himic.




