Nossub Gallery was established this year, 2009, and currently includes Ana’s jewelry designs and will eventually include her other beaded works, including photography. Ana’s latest jewelry designs are intricate peyote stitch jewelry. Ana enjoys going to the Sahuaro National Park with her box full of beads, needle and thread and spend half the day beading at a picnic table while listening to the birds and watching ground squirrels – how nice!
Geometric, Nossub Gallery
Ana is a fellow Tucsonan. She works as a semi-retired CPA who moved permanently to Tucson in January 2009 from New York City. After she closed her practice, she was teaching as an adjunct professor at a local college in NY. She plans to continue teaching accounting in Tucson.
While living in NY, Ana was a volunteer at the Bronx Zoo and she hopes to train for a similar volunteer position at the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum next year!
Salmon, Nossub Gallery
She started photography many years ago and what was a hobby eventually developed into something more serious. My photography was sold through three galleries in the NY area, and she became a Polaroid Creative Use Consultatnt working with Polaroid Emulsion Tranfers. Unfortunately, the modern Polaroid Company has discontinued manufacturing the type of film needed for that process. From there, Ana was dragged to a bead store in Connecticut and got into designing and handcrafting jewelry.
Like so many Tucsonans, Ana’s “downfall” for buying (and buying too much!) is the International Gem and Mineral Show held in Tucson every February. She also purchases supplies from Jay’s of Tucson.
Sahuaro, Nossub Gallery
Ana’s jewelry is currently sold in Beadwildered Women in Nyack, NY and was carried in Butterfly Gallery in Kaibab Courtyard although it closed earlier this year. Her photography is currently still packed away but she plans are to get her pictures into galleries and gift shops in the Tucson area.
Ana’s goals for her jewelry and photograph is to find commercial outlets for them. She tells me “I am not a good marketer or salesperson so a gallery or store that would be interested in buying my original designs and handcrafted jewelry would be very welcome.” To see more of Ana’s wonderful creations, please visit her online stores!
Gold Fans, Nossub Gallery
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