Imbued with memories and emotions, jewelry is a marker of human experience. In the Lapidary Journal, Deborah Yonick describes how jewelry artists are telling the human experience of COVID. “Gifted at telling compelling stories about the gems she works with and the jewelry she creates, custom jewelry artist Cynthia Renee … ”
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I’m happy to receive another win in a national competition: First Place for Custom Design Distinction in the MJSA Vision Awards. This winning jewel was a full custom jewelry piece featuring colored gemstones for a client who lives 3,000 miles from me.
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On June 7, 2016 the AGTA Board will meet in Las Vegas, Arizona. "The American Gem Trade Association (AGTA) is an association of United States and Canadian trade professionals ...
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Each February, the gem and jewelry industry gathers in the Tucson desert for a gala dinner banquet sponsored by the American Gem Trade Association. It honors the winners of the AGTA Spectrum Awards...
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Cynthia was recently interviewed in January by Accomplished Minds
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For all time, humanity has had the impulse to wear jewelry. What’s it all about, anyway? The forms, motifs and styling of jewelry speak of culture, uniquely reflecting events, forces and moods of a given time, place,...
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Cheryl Cecchetto, Producer of the Academy Award's Govenors' Ball, wearing Cynthia Renee’s Spectrum award-winning Green Tourmaline and Palladium necklace in this clip from ABC's 2011 Oscars Red Carpet coverage...
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A cheeky recommendation for the 2011 Oscars: http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/beauty/doing-the-oscars-in-march-jewelry-to-wear-2405769. Actually, the necklace’s owner wears it every chance she...
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Another First Place, this time for Custom Design Distinction the MJSA's Vision Awards. MJSA is a national association for jewelry makers and designers....
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Cynthia Renee Zava is now serving on the American Gem Trade Association's Board of Directors...
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"And the envelope please...." We won First Place in the Oscars of the colored gem and jewelry world: The 2011 Spectrum Award's Evening Wear Division...
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Cynthia's lecture Gems, Jewelry and Culture at the AGTA Tucson GemFaire: "For all time, humanity has had the impulse to wear jewelry. What’s it all about, anyway? ...
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