Applegate, Avery

During Avery Applegate's career of teaching art in public schools as well as a mental institution, she gave her creative side whole heartedly to her students. Now retired, Avery has been able to focus on the artist she is and the art she creates. She has always been a collector of wonderful whatnots and thingamajigs. As a child, her mother would empty her pockets on laundry day, only to find sparkling stones, rumpled feathers, shriveled earthworms, and tiny bones left behind by a now songless bird. These treasures were lovingly placed in the boxes, jars, and tins that housed her precious collections.

This affinity for honoring the old, the odd, the dead, and the cast offs of others led Avery to an assemblage style of jewelry making. Add to that her love of old photos veiled in mystery, and you have the formula behind Mourning Glory Jewelry. With a curtsy, a nod, and an occasional wink, Avery memorializes long lost souls by pairing them with odds and ends to create unique pieces of wearable art that tend to spark conversation, compliments, and coveting looks where ever they are worn.

Mourning Glory Jewelry was founded in 2016 and was a vendor at Bewitching Peddlers of Halloween art show from 2017 -2022. Avery retired from participating in shows in 2023 but continues to create art and jewelry.

Instagram: @averyapplegate