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JJ Otero Art @jjoteroart.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

New graphic for this weekend's show at the Native Elements Festival + Art Market. We start on Friday night with an opening event. Come through and see some fine artists.

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JJ Otero Art @jjoteroart.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

My latest bolos. Available direct from me or this weekend at the Bernallilo Indian Arts Festival in Bernallilo, NM. Message for pricing.

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JJ Otero Art @jjoteroart.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Here they are folx. See photos for sizes and stone description. Message only for pricing. Go!!

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JJ Otero Art @jjoteroart.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

In lieu of the cancelled market this weekend, I'm going to do a live jewelry sale streaming event featuring my work. I'm working hard on finishing new rings and maybe some stamped cuffs. Please join me if you can and share my announcement if you could. www.facebook.com/share/1EAE56...

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JJ Otero Art @jjoteroart.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Happening on the air live today, Sunday, March 30th at 2 pm on the Singing Wire program streaming at kunm.org. Tune in.

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JJ Otero Art @jjoteroart.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

And finished. Corn themed wide cuff with beautiful angel skin coral for a customer. Headed into the madness to its caretaker in DC.

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JJ Otero Art @jjoteroart.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Here we go!!!! Ring Drop!!! All available. Message only for pricing.

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JJ Otero Art @jjoteroart.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

"The sunrise and my heart saw your smile as I woke from a deep slumber. I turned to you and said "Let me make you a spam and eggs breakfast my beautiful wonder." I sprung into action like a 20-something in a new love summer. Your eyes followed my joyful march into the kitchen." Be My Valumtimez!

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JJ Otero Art @jjoteroart.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Happy Captain Cook Got Deaded by Indigenous Hawaiians day. Hahaha... And now...a Navajo NDN love poem... When I see your beauty My heart skips a beat. Like when I eat the high sodium spam My heart flutters for you my sweet. Be my Valumtimez!!! 😁

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JJ Otero Art @jjoteroart.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Working on my Heard Museum Guild Art Show inventory. Just a few of the stones in working into bolos and rings.

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JJ Otero Art @jjoteroart.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

A spiny oyster pendant I finished recently for a customer. Something different.

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JJ Otero Art @jjoteroart.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Resistance Reading of the Day: This same "conquest" game has been played over and over and over all over the world. Just look at the displaced and those currently in process to be displaced. Governments are super corrupt arms of capitalism.

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JJ Otero Art @jjoteroart.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

And finished. Had hoped to deliver this serving set to the Boston area to my customer but that didn't work out unfortunately. These will go out soon to their new caretaker. I'm happy with my second ever set of silverware. Goodnight.

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JJ Otero Art @jjoteroart.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

My view from my home shop window facing north. Snow is coming down nice and very welcome.

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JJ Otero Art @jjoteroart.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Some beautiful stones came in today and ready for your next piece. Top row: Royston turquoise Second row: Patagonia, Blue Diamond, Turquoise Mountain, and Hubei turquoise. Holler if you're moved. P/S - I keep forgetting to post here. Not much interaction yet but I'll try to remember better. Ha

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JJ Otero Art @jjoteroart.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Got some Kingman Birdseye turquoise out for a customer. One of my favorite things to do with a customer is to select a stone for their next piece.

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JJ Otero Art @jjoteroart.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Boston area!!! Excited to head out to the Fuller Craft Museum next week for this opening which has my bolo titled "Land Back" in the show. Still taking custom orders my friends. Holler if you need to see rings, bolos, cuffs.

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JJ Otero Art @jjoteroart.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Albuquerque!!! I'm in town this evening. Santa Fe!!! I'll be up your way tomorrow. Holler if you need to see something from my backpack of goodness. Rings! Cuffs! Bolos! Holler

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JJ Otero Art @jjoteroart.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

And this Corn themed cuff is finished. Beautiful center turquoise resembling our Earth Mother. Corn has sustained our NDN relatives since long before Columbus. Long before the colonizer fiction of a land bridge migration. Imagining a time that was pre-industrial, pre-occupation, and pristine.

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JJ Otero Art @jjoteroart.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Just 2 days left until maga-geddon. Strength and infinite resolve to my BIPOC relatives and the badass front line folx who are 99% women & lgbtq+. Full #FAFO mode. #ThisIsWhyWeContinueToResistOccupation

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JJ Otero Art @jjoteroart.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Looking cool. Corn around the world. Building this cuff for an environmental justice warrior who's in their later years. I'm honored when I get to make such significant pieces for those who protect our Mother.

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JJ Otero Art @jjoteroart.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Starting a new wide cuff for a customer. Laying out a slight taper to cut on this cuff. Will have to saw the taper since it's 10 gauge sterling silver.

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JJ Otero Art @jjoteroart.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

My first post here. Let's see how this goes.

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