 OBAMA, MAN OF THE YEAR, 2009 NOBEL PRIZE. Suite of four brooches: Hope over fear, Earth, Credo, and Peace of sterling silver, fine silver, eighteen karat gold,  shakudo ,  shibuichi , copper, brass, drusy chrysocolla, small operculum, amethyst, 2010. The four-part assembly of brooches was created for an exhibition held at Facèré Gallery to celebrate its gallerist Karen Lorene’s seventieth birthday. Seventy artists created seventy jewelry works for the exhibition. 