About Jessica Cote
Jessica Jordan Coté is a southern silversmith from Roanoke, VA. She received a Bachelor of Art & Design from North Carolina State University's College of Design where she studied painting, writing, photography and textile arts. Largely self-taught in the realm of metal fabrication, she has been making and selling her work full-time since 2008.
Jessica is the woman behind the brand Rosy Revolver LTD, an unflinching line of feminine statement jewelry. She works out of her home studio in Fuquay Varina, North Carolina creating mostly one of a kind designs and hosting private workshops. In 2012, she began assistant teaching several times a year at various national venues and has since evolved to collaborating and instructing solo around the country. She is a wife, mother to a son and two daughters, animal lover and vintage enthusiast.
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.
In 2016, she and her husband Nick, a painter, opened a working and teaching studio called The Makery in the Texas Hill Country outside San Antonio. In addition to teaching workshops at The Makery, Francesca is the founder of the Open Studio for Jewelry Makers online community, a group comprised of more than 5700 members from 81 countries (as of spring 2024), and The Heart of the Maker, an innovative educational experience for jewelry makers which she co-teaches with metalsmith Jessica Cote (aka Rosy Revolver). Francesca’s work has been published in print and online in Lapidary Journal Jewelry Artist magazine, and she has been a featured artist on Interweave’s Jewelry Artist podcast and Tamara Honaman's Heart and Hands of a Maker.
In 2023, The Makery suffered a catastrophic electrical fire which destroyed the historic building in which it was located and took the life of its shop cat and mascot, Sterling. The international jewelry-making community rallied and, together with local vendors and suppliers, raised funds and made donations of time and services to rebuild the studio in its new location, fondly called The Barn. The Watsons live nearby on just over an acre of Texas dirt with a flock of chickens, two dogs, and a variety of wildlife that insists on eating everything. They have one grown daughter.