Jodi has an extensive background in jewelry design and in the arts. She has been designing jewelry since childhood, and professionally for over two decades.

She is the Silver Medal Winner of the 2021 Fire Mountain Gems Jewelry Design Contest along with two other designs coming in as finalists.

Her designs have been displayed in many art exhibits, as her work is considered to be more than just functional adornment—it is a vessel for storytelling, capturing time, emotion, and experience.

Each piece is inspired by events that shape our world, using metal, stones, and natural materials to distill complex narratives into tangible forms.

Texture, color, and structure serve as metaphors for resilience, upheaval, and transformation, echoing the shifts in societal consciousness and the unpredictable nature of change.

Guided by both research and intuition, Jodi’s creative process embraces contrasts: strength and fragility, chaos and order, past and future.

Other distinctions of Jodi’s artistic journey include being the art director for The Hoboken Shelter in New Jersey for three years.

Additionally, Jodi was on the Board of Directors for Hob’art, a cooperative artist group which was involved in extensive community outreach combined with artistic exposure.

Her jewelry and her paintings have been exhibited in galleries and venues on the east coast, in the south, and in many juried art competitions and publications.

Currently Jodi’s work can be seen on exhibit at The Church Street Gallery in her hometown of Murfreesboro, Tennessee and Moonstruck Souls in Macon, Georgia.