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Nancy Lee Featured Oranje Artist in NUVO Magazine

Loopy Pearls
Loopy Pearls

NUVO news magazine in Indianapolis is providing feature articles for artists involved in Oranje – an interactive experience of art and music (this Saturday, September 19, in a vacant downtown warehouse at 2323 N. Illinois St., Indianapolis). And their freelance art reporter, Susan Watt Grade, elected to choose me as one of the artists. The article runs in print in this week’s edition of NUVO (available Wednesdays) AND online.

Sunfire Necklace
Sunfire Necklace

I was surprised, completely thrilled and deeply honored to be selected for this. After this interview I was really curous as to what Susan would write, and figured it would be a brief paragraph with “just the facts.” Susan took her charge to heart and set down a concise yet incredibly sensitive article that tells a pretty good story, if I may say so.
I write this as I’m about to make the final trip(s) to the double-size Oranje  booth that I am sharing with Wug Laku of wUG LAKU’S STUDIO & gARAGE. We have a 20′ x 24′ booth space to fill! So I better get cracking so the show will be ready. That’s 8PM on Saturday, folks, until 2AM. Get your tickets.
When you get there, look for me on the main floor, at the bottom of the ramp. 12′ walls draped in red/orange fabric!
A new batch of beaded rings will make an appearance – these always go fast at only $20 and are a good alternative to my higher-end offerings.
Adventuresome??? Try your hand at metalsmithing, and take home a forged copper cuff bracelet for only $10.
Plus, see a lot of new work debuting from yours truly, hot off the anvil! We have a wonderful show in store for you, and the Oranje team has plenty of other amazing artists and over 50 bands performing. Experience Oranje! Don’t miss it!

Silver Cup Necklace
Silver Cup Necklace
Lavanessence Series, Necklace with Pearl
Lavanessence Series, Necklace with Pearl

Nancy Lee, Pod, and Indiana State Fair Blue Ribbon!

Nancy, Pod (5") and Blue Ribbon
Nancy, Pod (5″) and Blue Ribbon

Thought I’d share with you the picture my studio-mate, Wug Laku, owner of wUG LAKU’S STUDIO & gARAGE took of me, Pod, and the Indiana State Fair blue ribbon, at about 9:00 PM tonight. Pod is back home with her ribbon, and I needed a picture of the three of us for an article for Business Ownership Initiative (to be published soon).
Taken after a day working in the studio at the Indianapolis Art Center, prepping for the Jewelry Smorgasbord class starting on Friday (there is still space for a few last minute-enrollments, by the way!), I was not looking forward to this! I wasn’t dressed for it – I just had on a T-shirt. But I had this nice top in the back of the studio, left there from the last opening we had. And I had a comb and lipstick. But the best part of all was the magical ingredient every girl needs to look her best in pictures: Photoshop!
Pod looks so little here! She really has a lot of character on her own. I’ll be sharing more about that, and the future Pod series, when the BOI article comes out. Please stay tuned.

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