Meet Anna Monet

ANNA MONET What will remain of the world we are making now?

I make sculptural jewelry that considers nature, technology, and the passage of time. My studio sits on Valencia Street in San Francisco, where I cut stones in my own lapidary, [cast] bronze and sterling silver, and dye horsehair by hand with indigo, madder root, and turmeric.

I am drawn to materials that carry a history. Our digital lives depend on what is extracted from the earth, from the copper in electronic circuits to the minerals that power our devices. Jewelry has always come from that same ground. I work within that lineage, pairing metal with pearl, shell, stone, and fiber, so that each piece holds its meaning and power.

My collections move between the ancient and the contemporary. The Rebirth takes up the serpent of Greek and Egyptian adornment, a figure of healing and renewal. Sea Bones gathers shell and pearl into forms that recall what the tide returns. Future Fossil transforms familiar technological objects into wearable artifacts, treating the obsolete as precious.

Across all of it, I think of jewelry as talisman: intimate artifacts that carry protection, memory, and meaning. I want to draw the manufactured back toward the natural and the futuristic toward the ancient, and to make objects worth keeping long after the moment that shaped them.

Every piece is made to order in my studio from deadstock stones, vintage sapphires, and plant-dyed ethically sourced horsehair.

My work is carried by museum shops and independent stores across the United States, including Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum; Pérez Art Museum Miami; and the Georgia O'Keeffe Home and Museum.

The studio is open by appointment.