Rings and Things

Also known as Garland Street (in Spokane)!

Two Rings & Things artisans are featured in an art show celebrating the 70th anniversary of “The Wizard of Oz”.  Appropriately held at the stalwart Tinman Gallery in Spokane, this OzVitational exhibit showcases artists’ unique takes on the legacy of Dorothy and friends.

Sondra Barrington, our Sales manager by day, mixed found objects with quality vintage-feel findings for a steampunk bracelet titled “Flying Monkeys”.  Like a wearable video clip (from the scariest part of the film!), this piece sports stills from the classic movie transferred onto copper stamping blanks.

When monkeys fly out of film onto charms!

• 37-189-9 gunmetal jump ring
• 40-377-9 gunmetal disk & loop
• 44-780-07 rectangle copper stamping blank
• 44-780-21 round copper stamping blank
• 37-145-00 assorted jump rings
• 86-910 image transfer solution (a really amazing product!)
• 86-343 Win-Ox
• 46-700-11 copper wire
• 37-422-7 copper head pins
• 49-993-06-AS zig zag edge beads *
• 69-299 metal stamping kit

Kurt (Metalman) Madison is our Art Clay Silver certified expert.  He and partner Margot Casstevens created a collaborative print/sculpture/jewelry piece that the Inlander newspaper called

“one-of-a-kind pendants — ruby slippers, a yellow brick road, the heart so sought after by Tinman himself — hang[ing] from inside their gray weathered box. A knothole in the wood becomes the “O” for Oz and the wood itself is said to be from Dorothy’s Kansas farmhouse…if you let yourself drift to where childlike wonder lives, you can almost believe.”

The exterior of Kurt & Margot's "OZ BOX"

Many other gifted artists are in the show, too.  So if you’re in Spokane any time this month, head to the Garland District for a visual treat!