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About Kristin Lora

Kristin Lora has been designing and making jewelry and art objects for over 30 years.  Inspired by bold shapes and forms, objects, color and movement, Kristin designs unique jewelry, small sculpture and objects to flatter and entertain.  These items are created using precious and non-precious materials, such as gold, silver, gemstones, found objects, glass and many other items.

Please enjoy viewing samples of Kristin’s work throughout the website.  Feel free to contact Kristin at her studio in Santa Fe, New Mexico at 505-471-5400.










JURIED SHOWS, EXHIBITIONS & AWARDS


Sit – Play
Two-person show
Victoria Price Gallery, Santa Fe, NM 2007

Two Niche Award finalist pieces
Niche Magazine
Rosen Group, 2007

34th Annual Toys Designed by Artists Exhibition
Purchase Award for permanent collection and catalog image; Arkansas Arts Center Foundation Collection, Little Rock, AR, 2006

Martini Squared
Gallery I/O, New Orleans, LA, 2006

Play Time: Toys for Adults
Brookfield Craft Center, CT, 2006

Jewelry: Objects and Meaning
Freehand
|Los Angeles, CA, 2006

Winner, Niche Award
February 2006
Pink Panther Music Box, Whimsical category

33rd Annual Toys Designed by Artists Exhibition
organized by Kenneth Trapp formerly of the Smithsonian Renwick Gallery for the Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR, 2005-2006, (Catalogue cover image, Purchase Award for permanent collection)

Sculpture to Wear
"Cocktails at 5 - Gowns at 8"
Los Angeles, CA, 2005

Pistachio Gallery
"SOFA"
Chicago, IL, 2005

Shaw Jewelry
"Beachstone Dispersal"
Northeast Harbor, ME, 2005

"Chess"
traveling exhibition organized by Velvet da Vinci; San Francisco, CA, 2003-2005
  Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA, 2005
  Thomas Mann's Gallery I/O, New Orleans, LA, 2004
  The John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI, 2004
  The Crafts Council Gallery, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK, 2004
  The Gallery, Ruthin Craft Centre, Denbighshire, Wales, 2003, 2004
  Vennel Gallery, Irvine, Scotland, 2003

American Craft Council Show
Baltimore, MD, San Francisco, CA 2004-2006

Buyers Market of American Craft
"Rosen Show"
Philadelphia, PA, 2004- 2006

New Mexico Museum of Fine Art
"New Mexico Creates"
Santa Fe, NM, 2004

Kentucky Museum of Arts + Design
"Holidazzle"
Louisville, KY, 2004, 2005

ACC, American Craft Council Show
Baltimore, MD, 2004, 2005

The John Michael Kohler Arts Center
"One and Only"
Sheboygan, MI, 2004

Carlyn Gallerie
"Autumn Jewels"
Dallas, TX 2004

Virginia Breier
"Year of the Primate"
San Francisco, CA, 2004

Newbill Collection by the Sea
"Architecturally-influenced Jewelry"
FL, 2004

New Mexico Museum of Fine Art
"An Evening with Nicolas and Alexandra"
NM, 2004

Houston Center for Contemporary Craft
"Playing Around with Toys"
Houston, TX 2004

Richey Jewelry Gallery
"Men" Show
Portland, ME, 2003

Mobilia
"Teapot"
Cambridge, MA, 2003

William Richey Jewelry Gallery
"Martini"
Portland, ME, 2003

Commissioned work
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Shop 2003

Velvet da Vinci
"Chess"
San Francisco, 2003

Gallery Zipp
"Art in a Box"
Glorieta, NM 2003

Velvet da Vinci Gallery
"Ornament"
San Francisco 2001, 2002

New Mexico Women in the Arts
"Designer Showcase"
2002

Gallery Zipp
"Mythology, Metamorphosis & The Milky Way"
Glorieta, NM 2002

ACC
American Crafts Council Show
San Francisco 2000, 2001

Stillwell Show
San Francisco State University
Art Gallery
1999, 2000




SELECTED PRESS / PUBLICATIONS

HGTV, That’s clever, filmed for TV show May 25, 2007

Jewelry Artist (formerly Lapidary Journal), June 2007

Felted Jewelry, Lark Books, 2007

The Santa Fean magazine, feature fashion, “Urban Elegance”, December 2006, page 35

Trend Magazine, Santa Fe’s Newest Power Couple, Fall 2006/Winter 2007, pp 156-160

The Santa Fe New Mexican Community News "Faces and Places", Sunday March 12, 2006, page E-4

Niche Magazine, Niche Award Winners, Spring 2006

The Santa Fean magazine, Artists & Exhibitions, “Full Circle: The Art of Kristin Lora”, Jan/Feb 2006, pp 48, 49

Creative Silver Chains book, Lark Books, 2005, pp 15, 36

Pasatiempo weekly magazine, The Santa Fe New Mexican, "Baca Street Studio Tour," December 2-8, 2005, page 36

AY magazine, Art Scene, “More Than Just Tinker Toys…” December 2005, pp 24, 25

Niche magazine, Something New, sterling silver martini glass with jade and garnet stickpin, "For The Bridal Party", Winter 2005, page 144

American Style magazine, sterling silver salt and pepper shakers, December 2004, page 89

Pasatiempo weekly magazine, The Santa Fe New Mexican, "Back to Baca Street," November 28 - December 4, 2003, pp 68-69



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