Jolene Bird

Jolene Bird (born 1963) is a Kewa lapidary artist and jeweler from Santo Domingo Pueblo.^[1]

Bird learned lapidary arts and jewelry making from her grandfather. From him she learned to identify and select high grade stones for use in traditional Santo Domingo inlay work. She went on to study silver-smithing at the Poeh Institute and Art Center on the Pojoaque Pueblo north of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Bird hand-cuts and finishes each individual bead and piece of stone inlay for her works, and is well known for her mosaic inlay objects and jewelry.^[2]

Her work has been exhibited at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of the American Indian,^[3] Santa Fe Indian Market,^[4] and at several museum venues. Bird has won several awards for her stone inlay work.^{[5] [6] [7]}

Her work is held in the permanent collection of the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art,^{[8] [9]} the Heard Museum, the Smithsonian Museum,^[10] and the Pickens Museum.^{[11] [2]}

• 1963 births
• Native American artists
• Native American jewelers
• Puebloan peoples
• Kewa Pueblo, New Mexico
• American women artists
• American women artisans
• 20th-century Native American artists
• 20th-century Native American women
• 21st-century Native American artists
• 21st-century Native American women
• Women jewellers
• Artists from New Mexico
• Pueblo artists

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