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The Girl Scouts of Nebraska recently paid a visit to Omaha, Neb. retailer Borsheims as part of an arts-based fundraiser for the organization.
The citywide Girl Scouts Advisory Group, a leadership group for scouts in grades 6 to 12, created two Pandora bracelets, which will be sold during the silent auction portion of the artVenture gala. The event is scheduled to take place in late March.
The Girl Scouts of Nebraska recently paid a visit to Omaha, Neb. retailer Borsheims as part of an arts-based fundraiser for the organization.
Called artVenture, the fundraiser celebrates collaboration with businesses and creativity, bringing the scouts out into the community to learn from professional artists in a variety of mediums while creating pieces that are then sold at the artVenture gala. At Borsheims they, of course, learned about making jewelry.
Meanwhile in New York City the Women’s Jewelry Association Metro Chapter’s Mix and Mingle event took place Monday night at the Manhattan gallery of designer Kristin Hanson. The Mix and Mingle is a monthly members-only networking event for the WJA Metro Chapter.
These events, plus the recent Indian Diamond & Colorstone Association gala in Tucson, are covered in this edition of The Week in Photos.
The citywide Girl Scouts Advisory Group, a leadership group for scouts in grades 6 to 12, created two Pandora bracelets, which will be sold during the silent auction portion of the artVenture gala. The event is scheduled to take place in late March.
In crafting the bracelets, the scouts worked with the store’s Pandora specialists to choose charms that best represented the Girl Scouts, the organization’s projects or a significant event in their lives.
A serious bench jeweler in the making is kept in check by her future boss. Prior to making their bracelets, the Girl Scouts learned about making jewelry from one of Borsheims’ bench jewelers, Karen VanHaitsma, a senior jeweler. She talked to them about how she became interested in jewelry design and shared a day in the life of a bench jeweler.
As a gift, each girl took home a Pandora bracelet of their own with a “Seeing Stars” charm on it.
More than 35 guests attended the WJA event at Kristin Hanson’s gallery, where she served red cocktails and did a jewelry cleaning demonstration, allowing each person to bring their own piece of jewelry to steam. Among those in attendance was JCK Senior Editor Jen Heebner, left, Hanson and Danielle Ingwer Cohen.
Hanson’s studio is located at 60 Reade in a historic landmark building in Manhattan’s Tribeca neighborhood. The studio includes Hanson’s jewelry-making school, pictured here, that has a reputation for being the starting ground for many up-and-coming jewelry artists.
“I cannot overstate how important it is to increase business capabilities through establishing a networking system with other entrepreneurial women in the same field,” Hanson, pictured here, said. “I support WJA’s direction and initiative in instilling leadership resourcefulness in its members.”
The New York-based Indian Diamond & Colorstone Association held its annual gala in Tucson on Feb. 6. During the course of the evening, the nonprofit honored AR & AR/Cicada Jewelry with the colored gemstone manufacturer award. Accepting the award was AR & AR President Arsavir Zarokyan, far right, with IDCA Vice President Ashok Sancheti, far left, and Shrenik Doshi, of Jewelex NY Ltd.
American Gem Trade Association CEO Doug Hucker, seen here with Sancheti, left, and IDCA Director Sushil Goyal accepting a plaque of appreciation, delivered the gala’s keynote address.
A group shot from the IDCA gala, from left: IDCA director Rayaz Takat, Sancheti, Zarokyan, Hucker, and Goyal with IDCA directors Sourabh Lashkery and Neeraj Rawat.
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