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Emily Webster: Mavens Jewelry on Balancing Creativity and Real Life in the San Francisco Bay Area
FromSlowmade Podcast
Emily Webster: Mavens Jewelry on Balancing Creativity and Real Life in the San Francisco Bay Area
FromSlowmade Podcast
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Length:
63 minutes
Released:
Feb 14, 2024
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Podcast episode
Description
We spend countless hours in our studios and more behind the screen editing photos, answering emails, listing, and sharing our work. It can feel very solitary for even someone like me who absolutely loves my alone time. Yet I think it is worth the freedom to create businesses that work in our lives and the pleasure of doing something we truly love. Today, I’m speaking with my friend, Emily Webster of Mavens Jewelry. Emily reached out to me in a sweet little DM on Instagram and we became fast friends. It’s been a mutually supportive relationship and one that I’m truly grateful. I think we all need supportive friends within our craft, willing to share without the concern of competition. Emily grew up in Georgia collecting rocks, shells, feathers and all sorts of other organic ephemera - She considers herself a scavenger who has always loved the tiniest things and most insignificant details. Mavens Jewelry is how Emily processes and shares this innate wonder of our surroundings through hand-crafted one-of-a-kind pieces. "Training in lost-wax casting in northern Italy, apprenticing to a Master Goldsmith in New York City, managing a fine jewelry repair shop while mastering the art of stone-setting in New Orleans, and being educated in gemology in California - this breadth of experience has led me to work with all kinds of materials, the 'high' and the 'low', and they are equal in my view, from quartz to diamonds, and from silver fabrication to classical goldsmithing techniques." ~ Emily Webster, Mavens Jewelry Instagram: @mavensjewelry Website: mavensjewelry.com Please consider supporting the podcast by joining our Slowmade Podcast Community on Patreon. Your support makes the podcast possible. If you have a guest suggestion or topic for the podcast, please reach out to Christine at: Instagram: @christinemighion Website: christinemighion.com
Released:
Feb 14, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode
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