Jewelry designer Karissma Yve of Xenophora Objects speaks on making jewelry using the casting process and what having a manufacturing facility in her hometown of Detroit means to her and the future for women jewelers.

“To be creating and creating a life for myself, to have a full-service jewelry manufacturing facility in Detroit, my hometown really feels good,” Yve said. “I’m at home, and I feel like I have the opportunity to impact people that are like me. 

“I find that a lot of people are like ‘Black jewelers? Black women jewelers?’ for example, are rare and uncommon. I am not a unicorn. There are billions of black women that are creators and creators of their worlds,” she says.

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