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rara avis objects
RARA AVIS OBJECTS is jewelry designed as mobiles—weightless, three-dimensional, and endlessly transformable.
I have long been captivated by the hypnotic beauty of mobiles—the way they shift, balance, and catch the light as they move through the air. That same sense of transformation is at the heart of Rara Avis jewelry. Many of the pieces can be reoriented to create new shapes and shadows, offering limitless ways to see and wear them.
RARA AVIS has been a dream in the making since childhood. My first “jewelry show” was in 5th grade at a local craft fair.
From creating catalogs of my “designs” for classmates to order, to selling jewelry at lemonade stands on my front lawn, to being stopped at the airport at age ten with a carry-on secretly crammed full of beads, tools and wire—my early love of jewelry never faded. What began as childhood play has grown into a lifelong passion.
I hold two Master of Arts degrees from the Savannah College of Art and Design, both concentrated in jewelry—the first in design and fabrication, the second in luxury management with a jewelry specialization. After graduate school, I refined my practice through work-study and assistantship programs at the Penland School of Craft in North Carolina and the Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts in Tennessee, as well as additional study at the New York Jewelry Design Institute in Manhattan.