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Eddie Secatero Jr.

Eddie Secatero Jr. is a Navajo silversmith from Albuquerque, New Mexico, who was taught the craft by his parents, Agnes and Eddie Secatero at a young age while also attending the To'hajiilee Community School. He creates jewelry full-time and is known for his work with materials like turquoise and spiny oyster..  

 

Ella Cowboy

Ella Cowboy is a Navajo artisan known for creating intricate Native American and tribal jewelry, often featuring detailed inlay work with turquoise, mother of pearl, and other stones. She is from Mentmore, New Mexico and learned her craft from relatives, a tradition for many Native American artists.

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Elvira Bill

Elvira Bill is a contemporary Navajo silversmith known for her heavy gauge silver jewelry with deep, defined stampwork and repoussé. She learned her craft from her parents, Emerson and Nora Tahe-Bill, and continues the tradition of creating bold, traditional-style silver jewelry, often following in her father's footsteps. In addition to being a silversmith, Elvira served for six years as an OR technician in the U.S. Army.

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Ella Peter

Ella Peter, Navajo silversmith was born April 2, 1943 in the Tsa-ya-toh area in New Mexico on the Navajo reservation. Ella Peter is a prominent Navajo silversmith raised in Mentmore New Mexico. She began learning jewelry making very early, as her father was a silversmith who taught her the crafts. Noteworthy, only men could practice silversmithing, at least before 1920s. Later, Navajo women proved to be talented silversmiths as well. By 1970 Ella Peter was already  an experienced master silversmith with her own views on design and with her own signature. Handcrafting her jewelry, Ella Peter uses sterling silver and traditional for Navajo silversmith turquoise stone. Also, she uses other multicolor natural stones – onyx, malachite, lapis lazuli and coral.

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Emma Linkin

Emma Linkin (often spelled Lincoln, Ella M. Linkin, or E.M. Linkin) is a renowned Navajo silversmith known for 

handcrafted sterling silver and turquoise jewelry, often featuring traditional, heavy, and stamped designs. Active since the 1970s, she is recognized for using high-quality turquoise like Royston and Sleeping Beauty. 

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Eula Wylie 

Eula Wylie is a Navajo (Diné) silversmith from Ganado, Arizona on the Navajo Reservation. She’s known for classic Navajo stampwork and cluster-style settings — especially Sonoran Beauty(Campitos) turquoise clusters, Kingman and Golden Hills turquoise, spiny oyster, chrysocolla, and white-buffalo — often set against oxidized/satin-finished silver with twist-wire or rope details.  Her work appears frequently in Southwestern galleries, trading-post sites, and retail sites.

 

Freddy Maloney

Freddy Maloney is one of three smithing brothers (Arnold and Leonard are his brothers) and does most of his work in traditional ingot; melting his silver to hammer it into a sheet before putting it through a hand rolling mill to finish making the sheet silver he works with. He is an amazing silversmith who true collectors can appreciate.

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Gregory Segura

Award-winning precious metals artist and Santa Fe native Gregory Segura started perfecting his silversmithing skills in the 1990s. He had served in the U.S. Air Force and worked as a hotel manager and financial planner but his heart was looking for a new, more creative career path. In, 2008 Gregory picked up his hammer and lit his torch and never looked back. Gregory’s work reflects his Spanish and Native American heritage. For each of his original designs, he draws on the legacy of New Mexico’s master silversmiths as well as rich culture and natural beauty of the region. His work encompasses a wide range of diverse designs, from traditional to contemporary, making each piece individual and unique. in 2010, he received the E. Boyd Memorial Award for Originality and Expressive Design at Santa Fe’s annual Traditional Spanish Market. In 2021 New Mexico Magazine named Gregory as one of 12 Makers New Mexico. Recognition given to artists that inspire and are inspired by New Mexico. Gregory’s work is regularly featured in Robert Redford’s Sundance Catalog’s Heritage Collection. Numerous articles have featured Gregory and his work including Metalsmith Magazine, Trend and Native Arts to name a few.

Gregory’s Spanish ancestors arrived in Santa Fe around 1624 and he still calls it home with the love of his life and inspiration, Debra, and their two rescue cats,