Once again, the judges had an extremely challenging time deciding who the three finalists should be. All six of our semi-finalists are talented, driven, and will clearly make significant impact on jewelry design in the years to come (learn about all six of our semi-finalists by clicking the Semifinalist menu button above). But only three could proceed to the final competition in New York. And they are:

Bree Richey

Bree Richey (left) comes from a family of jewelry designers, but she found her passion for jewelry on her own when she attended the Boston Museum School of Fine Arts.  

This was difficult.

Who knew that we would receive so many talented, impassioned, truly impressive applicants our first year? We thought judging would take us two weeks, tops, but here we are a full month later than we had planned, finally able to announce the six semi-finalists. You did not make it easy for us. Yet we found the process of considering each of your design collections and business analyses to be affirming, invigorating, truly inspiring. Thank you for that.

But in the end we are committed to choosing six who will progress. And so we did.