Check out our new edition necklaces! Click on Galleries and then Atelier Nancy Worden. All are available at http://www.artfulhome.com/artist/Nancy-Worden/8321 or order them direct from us. As a special gift for the season, we will pay for your shipping for purchases made in December 2011. Want to try them on first? Vetri at First and Union in downtown Seattle also sells our limited edition necklaces.
“When a woman wears my work, I want it to say, ‘I’m beautiful, smart, and I won’t be ignored.’” -Nancy Worden
Internationally known jewelry artist Nancy Worden introduces Atelier Nancy Worden, limited production necklaces at affordable prices. These handmade, lightweight pendants are easy to wear talismans with a secret compartment for storing a written amulet. Initially inspired by a friend’s battle with cancer, Worden’s art is intended to empower the wearer in the many battles of modern life.
Worden uses familiar materials to trigger our memories and emotions. IBM typewriter balls, hair curlers, and plumber’s ball chain. These are combined through a custom electroforming process, along with the more traditional jewelry materials such as copper and gold. The result is a celebration of the beauty of everyday objects. The found objects, carefully chosen artifacts from 20th century America, imbue Worden’s work with a specific chronology and location.
Shown above is the Pyramid Collar.
Protection All of the neckpieces in this exhibition include some form of amulet to protect the wearer. An amulet is an ornament or piece of jewelry thought to give protection against evil, danger, or disease. Sometimes an amulet is a piece of sacred writing preserved in a container to wear.
That's All Folks! 2010, bracelet , 1 1/2"H x 6 1/4"W, nickel, steel, wool felt, laminated stamps.
Loud Bones
The Jewelry of Nancy Worden
Susan Noyes Platt and Michelle LeBaron
Foreward by Helen Williams Drutt
For more than three decades, Northwest artist Nancy Worden has explored the cultural dynamics that shape contemporary social and political agendas, emphasizing the female experience in the United States. Working from her vast knowledge of jewelry's venerable traditions and forms, she demonstrates a high level of intellectual rigor and simultaneously cultivates a complex engagement with aesthetics and pleasure. Reflecting her passion and personal convictions, her jewelry is forceful, unapologetic, demanding, and gripping. Her jewelry is often humorous and sometimes painful, but her voice is never timid.
Loud Bones is the first scholarly examination of Worden's career. Her work is held in private and museum collections in the United States and Europe.
Distributed through the University of Washington Press.
Available at: www.washington.edu/uwpress, www.amazon.com, www.TacomaArtMuseum.org/store, www.willamette.edu/museum_of_art/
128 pp., 91 color illus., 8 x 10 in.
$40.00 cloth
$24.95 paper
Check out our new edition necklaces! Click on Galleries and then Atelier Nancy Worden. All are available at http://www.artfulhome.com/artist/Nancy-Worden/8321 or order them direct from us. As a special gift for the season, we will pay for your shipping for purchases made in December 2011. Want to try them on first? Vetri at First and Union in downtown Seattle also sells our limited edition necklaces.
