Meet Jewelry Artist and Gallery Owner Ellen Reiben

When Ellen Reiben couldn’t get into a ceramics class her junior year at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, she opted for an intro to jewelry. One week later, she almost dropped every other class.

In this week’s byGeorge blog, the jewelry artist and owner of Jewelers’Werk Galerie shares how collectors’ tastes in a more conservative city like DC have slowly evolved into the avant garde, the international crossover she’s witnessed in a field that was once very segregated, and the complex purposes jewelry serves in our society.