Meet the Artist

 

Hi everyone!  My name is Mandy Youngthunder and I am the artist behind Youngthunder Jewelry.  I am an enrolled member of the Ho-Chunk Nation in Wisconsin a descendant of the Red Lake Nation on my father's side.  I am a busy mother of three boys, a dog mom, cat mom, and wife.  

I fell in love with metalsmithing when I was an art student at the University of WI-La Crosse where I majored in Art with an emphasis in Metalsmithing.  I studied under Bill Fiorini and Brad Nichols who are wonderfully talented teachers and I really valued my time with them.  Upon graduation I continued my passion for silversmithing by creating jewelry occasionally, and once my youngest turned a year old and I set up my own studio in my home. I now create jewelry part time to fulfill my creative spirit.