About Francesca Watson
Francesca Watson is a Texas transplant who originally hails from upstate New York. In 2006, after years working in administrative jobs, she took a bead stringing class with some girlfriends - and the rest, as they say, is history. She began teaching metalsmithing in 2013, and has since been a guest instructor at local studios and major venues across the United States. She and her husband Nick, a painter, opened The Makery in Bulverde TX in 2016.
Francesca’s work has been published in print and online in Lapidary Journal Jewelry Artist magazine and the 2025Tucson Show Guide, and she has been a featured artist in several podcasts, including Interweave’s Jewelry Artist and Tamara Honaman’s Heart and Hands of the Maker.