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So are you curious as to where Prancing Lynx and I am and what we are up to in the neighboring towns, shops and local events?
Well, we will do our best to post info and pictures of the different things we do in the name of Strides With Thunder Jewelry so even if you do not get a chance to see us in a museum, at a show or in a shop you can still get a feel for what we do.
-Hope you enjoy-
Little Thunder Cloud
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So this is how this story begins, a good friend of mine (Laura from "Mythic Knits") has been going to school studying Native American history in the hopes to be an artifact curator for a museum someday. So she goes and gets this volunteer internship at the Mt. Kearsarge Indian Museum up in Warner, New Hampshire. Being an avid collector of my jewelry she wears it and gets compliments on it EVERYWHERE she goes.
Anyway, so she is wearing my pieces and the curator of the museum stops her, wants to know where she got it, who the artist is etc. etc. etc. So laura goes on to explain that I am a new and upcoming Native artist who is trying to put together a small business for myself. The curator of the museum then explains to Laura that the museum was trying to put together an exhibit called "We still remain: contemporary art of Native America" for the 2009 museum season and asked her to get me to give them a call and to see if I would be interested.
Well, obviously my first response was a resounding "YES!" as I had only been marketing pieces for roughly three months when I got this offer (even though I have been making jewelry most of my life but only to give as gifts) and then the second answer although internally was "o-crap, what do I make for a museum, that would not only be appealing to all passers by but also be good enough to be shown in a room with pieces by MANY VERY talented artist INCLUDING Leonard Peltier!".
Long story short I simply made a small, though intricut cross section of pieces to be put on display. The pieces included a Beautiful bone choker with dyed red turkey bone and buffalo horn hair pipes, sterling silver melon beads, an abalone shield with two strands of threaded rough cut turquoise beads leading into to long tuffs of horse hair.
I also made some of my sterling silver chain maille pieces. There was a two inch wide band cuff with a barrel clasp that had just under 1,100 2mm rings in it. There was a byzantine pendant with a denim lapis center and there was a mixed media earing and necklace set. The mixed media artist was a little bit old and a little bit new, it had elements of various styles of chain maille patterns as well as bone work and turquoise worked into it. A gorgeous piece to say the very least.
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