RACHELLE THIEWES is an influential teacher at the University of Texas at El Paso as well as an internationally acclaimed sculptural jeweler.

Her beautifully crafted works are in the public collections of the American Craft Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Royal College of Art, the Smithsonian Institute Renwick Gallery and the University of Texas at El Paso.

Thiewes has come to epitomize the best in contemporary American jewelry and her work has been selected to represent the United States in many international exhibitions and publications.

Through her jewelry, Rachelle Thiewes "explores the nature of the senses Both physically and psychologically the work describes the corporeal reality of gestures, rhythms, and cycles, and finds its most articulate expression when dissolved or awakened by human form in motion."

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