Last year, I participated in the Museum of Arts and Design’s annual jewelry sale/fundraiser, LOOT. They’ve being organizing LOOT for years, and I haven’t sent work for quite a while. I got a personal invitation from Donna Schneier – who has been very good to me – and I accepted. In the past, the galleries who represented my work did not want me to participate. First Helen Drutt and then Charon Kransen discouraged their jewelers from taking part. Typically, their argument was