Nettie Scott, a retired social worker, spent thirty happy years in Alaska, working in the field of cross cultural mental health and addictions as well as teaching at the University of Alaska Anchorage. She has lived in many places around the globe, always fascinated by ethnic arts and crafts. An amateur potter when she moved to the Alaskan “bush” she found that the harsh environment was not friendly to pottery making. A few years later she discovered polymer clay and began making her own beads, as well as fashioning jewelry from ethnic findings, porcelain, pearls and semi-precious stone beads. Now she is exploring mixed media polymer clay work, creating mostly functional art and using polymer clay as a painting medium. She lives in Philadelphia with her husband, Dan Shanis, occasionally teaching the basics of working with polymer clay and jewelry making.
Mosaic turquoise and spiral copper pendant necklace, $55
