"Hello, my name is Jerolyn Honwytewa. I am from Second Mesa, AZ located on the Hopi reservation. There are 3 villages Mishungnovi, Shupalovi and Shungopavi that make up the Second Mesa area. I am from the village of Mishungnovi and I come from the Corn Clan. I have been learning different silversmithing techniques, but the two techniques I have learned so far are tufa casting and Hopi overlay. I first started out as a traditional Hopi sifter basket (Tusayah) maker, which I learned from my grandmother and I still continue to make today. Just 2 1/2 years ago my father, Gerald Lomaventema started teaching young Hopi adults and I became a student of his. His purpose is to revitalize the Hopi overlay technique and hand down this type of art to the new, younger Hopi generation. There are adults actively making Hopi overlay today, all of whom were taught by my father. Just recently, we decided to become a group called "Qwa-Holo Hopi Silversmithing" and opened up a jewelry shop at the Hopi Cultural Center, where we now display our finished artwork for anyone to purchase. It has been quite a learning experience and it has taught me a lot about the art world as well as Hopi history. My very first show was the Hopi Show in 2015, which happens every July 4th weekend at the Museum of Northern Arizona. The Museum purchased one of my very first creations and it now has a permanent home in their archives. Since then, so many opportunities have opened up, not only for me, but for the whole group as well. We all travel and demonstrate our craft, for example, at the Grand Canyon Tower. We do Museum reviews of Hopi artifacts: pottery, paintings, tools but mainly jewelry, which I like doing a lot and am extremely motivated to create more and more jewelry items that I can show to the world. Usqualii"