Collection: Edison Cummings

Edison Cummings is an artist born in 1962. He became interested in drawing in high school in Holbrook, Arizona, and after graduating studied painting and sculpture at IAIA (Institute of American Indian Arts) in Santa Fe, gradually shifting his means of expression to jewelry making. He then studied art education at Arizona State University, and from 1990, after graduating, honed his jewelry skills at White Hogan Gallery, where the master Navajo jeweler Kenneth Begay once worked.

He devoted five years to making jewelry at the gallery, and since 1996 has won many awards at well-known Indian art competitions, including the Santa Fe Indian Market and the Heard Museum Indian Fair & Market. He has continued to win awards in recent years.

He gives silver a distinctive texture through tufa casting (casting in molds carved from volcanic tuff), and excels at combining inlay in a variety of materials, including turquoise, coral, spiny oyster shell, ironwood and ivory.