QUEEN BEE & POLLEN COLLECTOR TALISMAN IN THE GOLDEN AGE OF THE PREDATOR

TREND MAGAZINE
Kristin is a featured artist in Trend Magazine's Summer 2017 issue. Titled Body and Spirit, the article by Rena Distasio with accompanying photos by Kate Russell, features images of Kristin's finished and in process jewelry. Read about how she found her way to jewelry, her influences, and her work in casting and fabrication.

The Summer 2017 Trend Magazine is available now digitally and on newsstands. The article features Winter's Heart: Devotion which was in process when the article was written.  Winter's Heart: Devotion has since morphed into the colossal Queen Bee & Pollen Collector Talisman in the Golden Age of the Predator: Pectoral Reliquary with Handmade Chain, pictured at left.  It will be on exhibit as part of Cross Pollination (see below).

Peruse the Trend Magazine article, here.

View other work in Kristin's Online Gallery here.

POLLINATOR: FLORINE'S DREAM III (THIRD ODE TO FLORINE STETTHEIMER)

CROSS POLLINATION
A group exhibition showcasing work at the intersection of art and science that focuses on bees and other pollinators. About 35 percent of the world’s food crops and 75 percent of the flowering plants depend on pollinators to reproduce. Pollinators, including bees, moths and butterflies, and birds, have become increasingly threatened by human action. With this knowledge, artists have responded to the issue by working with and for pollinators to raise awareness about their profound benefits to life on earth.

Curated by artist/backyard beekeeper, Valerie Roybal, with curatorial assistance from Claude Smith and Aimee Gwynne Franklin, Cross Pollination not only refers to how bees and other insects pollinate a large portion of the world’s food, but also to the cross pollination of ideas in art and science. The exhibition includes local, national and international artists working in painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, installation, film/video, performance, and more.

Cross Pollination opens August 19, 2017 at 516 ARTS from 6 - 8pm.

Learn more about the exhibit here and through the 516 ARTS press release.

Blue: Necklace: Grace Dalrymple's Right Eye
Worn by Frances, pictured at left
Photo by Nicole Blaisdell Ivey

See more images of Blue: Necklace: Grace Dalrymple's Right Eye here, and view other work in Kristin's Online Gallery here.

POLLINATOR: THE QUEEN'S HONEY DROPS

PRIVATE CLASSES AND INTERNSHIPS
Private classes are available for those who require flexibility in scheduling, a focus on a specialized skill, or are simply interested in learning one-on-one. For more information about arranging a private class with Kristin, please send an email to  info@kristindiener.com.

Classes, workshops, and open studio continue throughout the 2017 Summer, Fall, and Winter sessions. Open studio hours are available for those who have taken the Beginning Jewelry/Metals class and are interested in using the Diener Studio equipment, tools, and facility to create their own work in a positive, comfortable, and safety-minded environment. Saws, acetylene torch, silver solder, flux, foredom flex shaft, buffing machine, rolling mill, hammers, disc cutter, chasing and dapping tools are among the equipment available for use. For more information about upcoming open studio times or specialty equipment and materials available, please send an email to  info@kristindiener.com.

New ONGOING CLASSES and WORKSHOPS are always being added.
For more information and to view scheduled classes, click here.

NEW STUDIO
New studio, new location, more equipment, and more space! Diener Studio has recently changed residence and upgraded to nearly triple the space! WHOA. Included is a sound-proof room dedicated to raising and forming, a new space for the flex shaft, an area for cutting, dapping, and light forming, a table dedicated to the enamels, more soldering space, a new and improved work table, and the list goes on and on! More exciting upgrades on the way!

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