Wearable Art and Fine Crafts

Art jewelry by Wendy Waldren and Betsy Gribble, Investment Design, is created from alternative materials which after being given a second chance sparks imaginations and starts conversations.

Investment Designers are Wendy Walden and Betsy Gribble. Their work currently focuses on collage pieces to be worn. Bracelets, earrings, necklaces, cuff links, and pins are fashioned from vintage and antique pieces. They have created a line of contemporary jewelry, composed of nostalgic found objects of all kind, from antique buttons and subway tokens to Scrabble game tiles.

The designers compose shape and color, selecting from a palette of the most mundane objects. There is a wonderful irony as these bits of the past, each in their own way representing technology and mass production, are now handcrafted into jewelry.

Gallery Five has a collection of contemporary jewelry from vintage pieces by Wendy Waldren and Betsy Gribble.