Our artist has been professionally trained by enrolling into trade courses at the Gem Institute of America, taken seminars from some of the best in the business for example,  Kate Mckinnon and Sherry Fotopolus at the Lapidary Institute and PMC Connection. Our artist embarked upon different types of stringing, marketing, and how to work with silver and semiprecious stones such as rubies and garnets. She has also worked with polymer & precious metal clay (PMC) not to mention ceramic medium. She has had training with kiln firing and is working on enamel techniques with PMC She had been doing a wide variety of art her entire life; jewelry ties all of that together.