The entries are in and it’s going to be quite a competition!
Aaron Stanley – Turquoise Leaf Ring M
Ace McCasland – Entangle
Adrienne Sheard – Crown Ring with Ruby
Aleena Derohanian – To a Future that Never Was
Alena Applerose – Mermaid Fantasy
Amy Schmidt – A Ring for a New Now
Andi Terry – A Study in Curves
Andrea Shavlik Polzkill – Some Clouds Have a Gold Lining
Anna Nava-Liess – Sunshine
Anne Wolf – Precarious Moorings
April Ottey – Rrr-ock-tupus
Arielle Brackett – Pacific Northwest Ferns
Ashley Heitzman – MABE PEARL Silver Arc Ring
Aya Hasegawa – Nest
Barbara Knuth – Oscillate
Barbara McLaughlin –
Galaxy
Beth Novak – Party Ring
Bobbie Marquette – Jo and Dexter Visit the Islands
Bruce Barton – Handcrafted Larimar Ring
Burcu Buyukunal – Burcu
Carin Jones – Specimens
Carlos Rodas – Curva Infinita
Carolina Andersson – Hana (Flower in Japanese)
Catherine Grisez – Blue Skies Come Back Eventually
Cecelia Lopez Bravo – The Tower
Charity Ridpath – Bubble Wrap Mineral
Checha Sokolovic – Ring of the Rising Sun
Chrissy Liu – Turquoise Earth Ring
Christopher Gerber – Shiny (odd)Ball
Clara Schmitt – Medusa
Danielle Cadef – Mermaid Armor
David Drake – Ingelm
David Jones – Ssssssssnakes
Dayne Keller – The Smack Daddy
Dean Stith – Head in the Clouds
Debbie Jo Baxter – Before The Storm
Deborah Boskin – “Of course it’s a diamond!”
Diane Cook – Sonora by Sunrise
Dorn Williston – Buttonshroom
Eleanor Wightman – Tempest
Elke June Stacey – Earth Whirlpool
Erika Laureano – Sea Foam Goddess
Erin Austin – Growth
Gloria Fox – Amber Ring
Helen Cowart – Orange Gumdrop
Izak Anderson – Australian Sunshine
Jamie Hascall – Coming Out of My Shell
Jane Pellicciotto – Spring Thing Ring
Jason Stein – Techno-Lithic Remnants #2
Jason Foster – Glacier
Jennifer Surine – Iceberg
Jessi Sawyer – House
Jessica Larsen – Tarn
Jim Dailing – Kepler’s Orbit
Jody Sachs – Spring Revelation
Josiah Trujillo – Rutile and Jade Ring
Judith Gauthier – Haywire
Julia Lowther – Green Thumb
Julianne Van Buskirk – Alpine Lakes
June Cream – Goin’ to Clown Town
Jung Ki Min – Coral
Karen Edgerly – Ruby Cosmos Ring
Karen Keller – Secrets Safe with Me
Karin Luvaas – Extended Holiday
Kathleen Faulkner – Apartment Complexity
Kathryn Aikin – Tales from the Heart of Stone
Kathy Anderson – Sapphire Halo
Kenneth MacBain – Just Like Kim Kardashian’s Ring
Kim Harrell – Tickle Me
Kimberly Voigt – Urban Girl Power Ring
Kris Patzlaff – Nesting
Laura Stamper – Peculiar
Laurel Nathanson – Narrative Ring
Linda Bernasconi – Square Root
Lindsay Locatelli – Ring No8
Lisa Mutty – King Man
Lisa Rouse – Against the Grain
Lisa Geertsen – Valkyrie
Lisa Markowitz – Iris
Lizzie MacPhail – Capricious
Lori Linkous Devine – Mitochondria Large
Lynn Latta – Double Crackle
Mahsa Yaghoobi – Ghajar
Mandy Flood – Black over Bills Mothers
Marcy Swanson – 50 Cents Medical
Marianne Willumsen – Spring Blue Flower
Maru Almeida – Anything Can Happen
Mary Kaye Denkenwalter – The Weave
Melanie Smith – Wedge
Melanie Schlossberg – Bar Fight Rock-star Ring
Melissa Scoppa – Sundial Ring
Micah Donnelly – Bottomless
Michelle Jansuy – QuaRingtini
Michele Schuler – Dancing Clown
Michelle Zeidman – Floating on a Dream
Mimi Huszer Fagnant – Triton’s Treasure
Monika Urbaniak – Three Friends
Morgan Noble – Athena
Nancy Bonnema – Keith Lewis Ring
Nesibe Evcin – Spiral Of Absence / Yokluk Sarmalı
Niki Lewis – Revolving Cliffside
Nina Raizel Hartman – Quarantine Ring
Ozlem Gungor Demirbas – Envy
Paula Angeleri – Stairway
Rameen Ahmed – Concave 07
Rebecca Myers – Feathered Nest
Rene´ Henry – You got glitter in my bubblegum!
Rhenda Strub – Grab the Brass Ring
Ryan Gardner – Amethyst Gold Bubble Ring
Sarah Tector – Blades & Spinner
Senay Akin – Bright Starry Night
Seth Bitting – Chrysocolla Spring Ring
Seth Moreno – 7th Wave
Sharon Massey – Brickwork Signet
Shearin Abdel Monem – Nubian Dwelling
Shelby Cramer – Terrorium
Shino Posey – Northwest Spring
Stephanie Norris – Tide Pool
Susanne Henry – Waterdrop
Suz O’Dell – Wrap Cocktail Ring
Suzanne Rogge – Rainbow at Four Corners Silver, Gold and Opal Ring
Teresa Lathem – Heredity
Teresa Conley – For the May Queen
Todd Hughes – Corona Armor, Back the F*#k Off
Tory Herford – Teardrop Amazonite Ring
Winona Snell – Amanita Muscaria
Yuko Tanaka – Because the Butterflies Were Always There
Zuzana Korbelarova – Atom Ring
Battle of the Rings is a head-to-head, tournament style, single-elimination juried competition, with a top prize of $500. Two jurors will select up to 64 rings. These rings will be paired into matches and posted to our Instagram story at 9am (Pacific), every day in June. Each ring can win up to three points in a match. One is given to the winner of the Instagram poll; the other two points come from our judges. The Ring with the most points moves onto the next round.
Esteemed Jurors:
Anika Smulovitz and Andrew Cooperman
Competition/Show Dates: June 1-30, 2020
How to Participate:
All voting happens online, at the Danaca Design Studio Instagram account. New matches are posted daily, in June at 9am (Pacific). Voting happens through our Instagram stories: in the app, tap the circle next to our account name. You can pick your favorite by tapping “TOP” or “BOTTOM” in the poll. The winner of the Instagram poll earns one point. Click on the links in the Instagram post to view more pictures of each ring.
