Steampunk Post Earrings with Dragonflies

Ingalls has been designing and creating jewelry professionally for 30 years. She graduated from the Massachusetts College of Art in 1997 with a degree in metalsmithing, working mainly in silver. In 2011, the price of silver spiked and priced many artists out of a job. Rather than stop making jewelry, she indulged her love of recycled materials and began collecting and disassembling broken watches. A customer was the first to describe her work as "steampunk." She had to look it up. A whole new world of artists and community welcomed her. A steampunk aesthetic, and a love for texture, now inform her production work as well as her work in precious metals. Diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2003, she remains thankful that the scale of her work does not require good balance or brute strength. As long as her vision holds out, she plans to keep making jewelry and art.