Laura Fortune Studio

Thank you to all the fantastic people I met this weekend in Kansas City! This city shows up and is filled with wonderfully kind people.
And thank you to the Plaza Art Fair for awarding me an invitation to return next year. Looks like I will get some Kansas City BBQ🍗after alI, I fumbled the ball this year😆
See you all next year!✨

I drove from northern New Mexico through Oklahoma and Kansas to arrive to Missouri where I’ll be this weekend participating in the Plaza Art Fair in Kansas City.
Middle of the USA, and driving great distances in this country is so crazy. This is my first time through these areas.

Well, naturally, I piled on some jewels for opening night and went with my best cornfield and big clouds…a combination of bolo slide, necklace and stud earrings.

Tonight was so busy and I’m looking forward to the weekend in KC!

WIP⚠️
I finally hit my stride again and excited to get back out there this weekend. I’ll be headed to the Plaza Art Fair in Kansas City, MO and then to Crystal Bridges Museum of Art in Bentonville, AR
Here’s a few recent scenes from my studio✨

I am remaking a favorite piece that has been out of stock for a while, and if you wanna know my favorites, there will be signs…🙂🙃🙂🙃
Also, swipe to the end to see another collar necklace that is re-emerging!

I have a pretty packed schedule for the next six months or so, and I have been thinking alot about the range of work I offer. For the past few years, I have allowed myself to create the wild and large Jewerly…Diner scenes, pro-wrestling, and backyard BBQs…and I decided to test using my illustrative style to create one singular piece inspired by an element of the larger works.

I am so lucky to have such a joyful and positive response to my work when people see it in person, and they want to join along, but I’ve never had a big selection of “gateway” pieces.

I am never going to stop making the big “stop in your tracks” pieces, but it was really fun to pump-out this range of pins and scarf or hanky bolos and a few earrings of this scale and technique.

They are big, bold, and still pretty silly, but it will be a fun experiment to see the response. I could easily come up with 100 more😎

All the weird (and not so weird) things I make are updated on my website for a limited time⏰
After this week, it’s all going back to basics, because I need inventory for these upcoming shows🤗

Can you believe I still haven’t made any dog inspired thingssssss???? What do you think I should do?