We revisit the mesmerizing jewelry of Mary Lee Hu by the late Carolyn L.E. Benesh. Carolyn had a personal appreciation of Hu’s meticulous work, and in this article, she offers a paean to beauty, accomplished and mighty, through Hu’s own journey of teaching and innovating.

Robert K. Liu takes us back through fifty years of Ornament Magazine and the Bead Journal, showing through photographs the magnificent journey that he and the late Coeditor Carolyn L.E. Benesh have undertaken, and the incredible people they have met along the way.

Having received the Visionary Award in Metal at the 2023 Smithsonian Craft Show, we explore the jewelry of Chunghi Choo.

Wolfgang Vaatz’s intricate portrayals of aspens and landscape-infused jewelry is a clarion call to awareness, where he seeks to impress upon the viewer the beauty and value of the natural world.

Visiting with Maria Wolff, a multimedia jewelrymaker whose father was a Danish furniture maker and immigrant, reminds us of the power of our heritage.

Exploring over thirteen hundred years of glass beadmaking, Ornament presents examples from its Study Collection to illustrate the beauty of these miniature adornments, past and present.

Delve into this extraordinary exhibition of Japanese folk clothing, as well as examples of Ainu dress and other native peoples of Japan at the Minneapolis Institute of the Arts.

Patrick R. Benesh-Liu describes the superbly intricate micromosaic jewelry of this Navajo couple.