Short Bio. For In-Store Marketing

Jean Cali, lifetime resident of the Slate Belt, began studying art in high school under artist Robert Doney. With Mr. Doney, she studied drawing and painting, experimenting with charcoal, oils and watercolors. Her love of art continued, and as a young adult Jean took private painting lessons with Mr. Doney, as well as watercolor classes at the Bangor High School. She also dabbled in oil painting at Northampton Community College before taking her first jewelry making class with long time art teacher, Mr. Faust, at Pen Argyl High School. Later, her brother and artist, John Cali, introduced her to a silversmith in Bethlehem where Jean learned to create sterling silver bangle bracelets. Her brother’s influence paired with the strong influence of her daughter and current art teacher at the Pen Argyl High School, artist Alison Cesare, pushed Jean’s love of art from painting into jewelry making. When Alison showed Jean how to hammer metal, Jean was inspired to work from thin sheets of precious and non-precious metals unique sets of earrings and bracelets which in their turn sprouted her now familiar company moniker, “Bangles Baubles and Beads.”

Jean’s love of jewelry and fashion attracted her to the resplendent colors and patterns of beaded jewelry. Encouraged by her friend Jane to investigate this avenue of jewelry making more thoroughly, Jean found that the texture and sparkle that can be created with beads captured her imagination, and soon she was attending beading classes at Knit and Pearl in Stroudsburg. Jean's beading endeavor turned into one of a kind pieces like you see before you now, intricate pieces of jewelry worked into being at the fingertips of this careful artist.

When you by a piece of jewelry by Jean Cali, you are buying an offering of beauty. Jean puts her heart into her hands to make each piece, so that every person who wears her earrings, bracelets, and necklaces can share in her joy while adding color and sparkle to the world around them.