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Thursday, July 5, 2012 — The Plainville Citizen
Plainville woman’s art goes from hobby to museums
Pieces created by Marilyn Shorette range from beaded angels to bottle cap pins, earrings made from Silver Dollar plant leaves to a metal pendant.
By Crystal Maldonado The Plainville Citizen
imagination for her success in jewelry making. “Imagination has followed me everywhere,” she said. It shows – in the pendants made of beads, seashells and bottle caps, some that read ‘dream’, ‘imagine’ and ‘play’, some sealed with glitter
Citizen photo by Crystal Maldonado
(now located in Cromwell). “I didn’t think of jewelrymaking in the sense of being an artist. I just thought of it as being my favorite pastime,” Shorette said. “It wasn’t until I got the invite to the New Britain museum that I considered it. Things have just been escalating from
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preserve them for earrings. It’s subtle, but keeps things fun, she said. “It’s different. I want different.” Shorette credits her lifelong love of art and her vivid
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Marilyn Shorette’s jewelry is on display at the senior center and Plainville Public Library through June and July. Shown above, Shorette dons earrings, a necklace and a bracelet, all created by her.
there.” It’s also not just jewelry she makes – although she does create necklaces, bracelets and earrings, creations she wears herself – but tiny beaded angels (which she calls “pocket angels”) and rosaries. More recently, Shorette has ventured into wire wrapping, using metal materials and even to incorporating items from nature into her work. She turns seashells into pendants and pours clear epoxy over things like “helicopters” (the brown tree seeds that twirl to the ground each autumn) and the leaves from a silver dollar plant to
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Marilyn Shorette has been making jewelry for years – as a hobby, for acquaintances, for herself. A friend of hers was wearing one of the vintage bottle cap pins Shorette created while visiting the New Britain Museum of American Art. Amid the renowned paintings in the museum’s collection – by artists such as Georgia O’Keeffe, Maurice Prendergast, Andy Warhol – it was Shorette’s hand-crafted pin that nabbed the attention of a museum employee. Soon after, Shorette’s work was featured at the museum during a March 2012 First Friday event, where she was told her art was unique. “Unique – I love that word. It meant a lot to me to hear,” Shorette said. It wasn’t just the New Britain Museum of American Art who fancied the lifelong Plainville resident’s jewelry – her work was the featured exhibit during June and again in July at the Plainville Public Library, is currently on display at the Plainville Senior Center and is even sold at a former Plainville store, Mouse Hole
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