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7 ORNAMENT 38.1.2015 c ontributors Robin Updike Robin Updike is an arts writer in Seattle, Washington, and a long-time contributor to Ornament Magazine. She has been a close observer of the Pacific Northwest's robust jewelry community for more than twenty years, and she was delighted to interview jewelrymaker Sara Owens for this issue. To interview Owens, Updike traveled by ferry to the Puget Sound island where Owens is making her art and planting roots for a purposeful life within the island community. "Though Sara is only a few years out of college, she is already a remarkable artist," says Updike. "She has not only talent but great focus. It will be fascinating to watch her career blossom." p. 36 Robert K. Liu Robert K. Liu is Coeditor of Ornament and for many years its in-house photographer. His new book, The Photography of Personal Adornment, which covers forty years of shooting jewelry, clothing and events related to ornaments, both in and out of the Ornament studio, has finally landed after settlement of the dock slowdown. In trying to make photography outside of the studio easier, he experiments with diffusers on external flashes, to determine if studio quality images can be made with this equipment. He also shows some amazing intact precolumbian jewelry, illustrating the ingenious ways ancient jewelers strung necklaces. p. 48, 56 David Updike David Updike is an editor at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, where he has just finished work on the exhibition catalogue for a retrospective of photographer Paul Strand. His most recent articles for Ornament profiled two jewelry artists, Maryland's Namu Cho and Pennsylvania's Holly Lee. For this issue, he returned to Maryland to visit Rebecca Myers at her studio and gallery in Baltimore's historic Clipper Mill complex. He was taken with the evolution of Myers's work through twenty years, which as the artist self-describes is about contrasts between opposites. As a community of handcrafters, Updike eloquently describes Clipper Mill as a "post-industrial paradise." p. 42 Carl Little Carl Little has had an eye on Cara Romano's work since first seeing it at the annual Directions: Maine Crafts Guild Show at the Mount Desert Island High School in 2008 (the show celebrates its fortieth anniversary this summer). "I love the color in her work and the fact that it moves," he says. Little's most recent book is Irene Hardwicke Olivieri: Closer to Wildness (Pomegranate). He helped produce Imber's Left Hand, a film profile of painter Jonathan Imber and his fight to overcome ALS. Little is also an integral member of the Maine Community Foundation, and appreciates Romano's own efforts as board president of the Maine Crafts Association to further the growth of culture in Maine. p. 54