Findings: The Jewelry of Ramona Solberg

Widely admired in the field of fine art jewelry, Ramona Solberg brings together cultural artifacts that are both exotic and familiar. With her meticulous sense of composition, Solberg turns buttons, calipers, beads, pebbles, and her trademark dominos into boldly-scaled works of wearable art. Thirty-two of her necklaces are illustrated in color in Findings, comprehensively gathered for the first time. Vicki Halper sets Solberg's work in the context of her life as an artist, teacher, and traveler, and explores the creative links between Solberg and her students and fellow jewelers. She chronicles Solberg's career from her student days, through her tenure as professor at the University of Washington, to her active and productive recent years, and explores the community of Pacific Northwest artists with whom she is associated: Laurie Hall, Ron Ho, Kiff Slemmons, and Nancy Worden.