Morning Mist is an online studio specializing in custom jewelries and fine arts ranging from pendants, earrings, necklaces, bracelets, bangles, rings, anklets, brooches, tie tacks, cuffs to items of religion like crosses and rosaries. Customary work such as engraving is also done by Morning Mist.
Morning Mist is headed by its chief artist, Tad Coffen. He is a writer and has done and presented demonstration projects countrywide. He has dedicated the last 25 years of his life in supporting and campaigning for individuals with disabilities. On the other hand, his intense love for the arts allowed him to become a full-time artist. His training in arts started early as Tad was relentlessly drawing and making models. He took pleasure in cleaning green ware and shaping clay when he was eight. His mother painted and is involved with the ceramic business. Coffen supposed that his abilities in arts were stamped by his mother. His father also was a life artist and could create anything. Since 2002, Tad has been an active affiliate of the FEGA (Firearms Engravers Guild of America, and also a member of The Society for Midwest Metalsmiths since 2003.
Morning Mist also has guest artists like Nina Marie, Wagna Celidon and Mary J. Thompson, here’s a brief introduction of the artists that makes morning mists special:
Nina graduated from The University Arizona in 1980 with a Degree in Fine Arts. She first worked as a graphic designer until 1990. However, she sensed that she’ll make a little difference to the world of art so she moved to Quartzite, Arizona and settled there where she opened a small studio.
Morning mist had the privileged of meeting her as a vendor when she attended the annual gem convention in January in the city of Quartzite. This event pulls vendors from different parts of the world from as far away as Australia. Nina is a working mom, raising three children, and gets pleasure from beading and creating sterling silver jewelries. She trades her work of arts in her studio and in a number of other studios in Arizona. She dreams of having her work all over America.
Wagna Celidon is from Quebec, Canada and is a professional jewelry designer. In 2001, she won an excellence award in Montreal’s Jewelry School where she studied part time for many years. What began as a hobby became a lifetime devotion and an ignorable passion for her. She opened her jewelry creation enterprise in November 2006. Celidon’s 2007 collection consists largely of sterling silver rings. She uses the lost wax technique in making this collection. At present, Celidon is in her artistic research to perfect her work whilst preparing her next jewelry collection expected by the month of March 2008.
Mary Thompson started making jewelry when she landed a job at a local goldsmith studio as a bench jeweler. Twenty-five years soon after, she started her own craft. She designs and creates jewelry pieces and has joined the Morning Mist Jewelry and Fine Arts as a freelance artist. GP
