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Some young girls string together plastic beads. Other people may buy prefabricated pieces at arts and crafts stores. Anyone can make that kind of jewelry, but making wearable art takes an artist.

Mickey Kunkle, an artist with North End Gallery in Leonardtown, created this necklace that was recently sold.

Several local artists pride themselves in their specialization of creating artistic accessories that can be worn. To them, jewelry is art.

One of these artists, Balbina Meyer of Leonardtown, said "I like to call myself an artisan."

Her neighbor at one time used a technique known as wire wrapping to create her own jewelry. "I asked her, ‘Can I see it?' I started playing with [the materials] and ended up doing something totally different than her," Meyer said. From then on, Meyer has been committed to making one-of-a-kind pieces....

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