In 1988, after graduating with a degree in English, Emily Rosenfeld started working for production jewelers Lewis and Hubener, where Emily stayed for two years. Understanding that she wanted to earn her living with her hands and with her eye, she moved to the Bay Area, took a few workshops, and began making her own jewelry in 1991. For two years, in Oakland, Emily ran her business out of a Murphy bed closet. Since then Emily has lived, again, in New Paltz, NY, and has now settled in Western Massachusetts. With a view of birch trees and a river she swims in during the summer, her studio is in a converted factory building filled with other artists. Emily feels continually inspired to develop new designs and play with new materials and techniques. Emily states, I am privileged and thankful to be part of the immensely supportive and loving community of craftspeople and crafts buyers. Making my work makes me very happy; I hope owning it brings a measure of joy as well.

Miriam was the sister of Moses and Aaron, and the daughter of Amram and Jochebed. She appears first in the Book of Exodus in the Hebrew Bible. At her mothers request, Miriam hid her baby brother Moses by the side of a river to evade the Pharaohs order that newborn Hebrew boys be killed. She watched as the Pharaohs daughter discovered the infant and decided to adopt him. Miriam then suggested that the princess take on a nurse for the child, and suggested Jochebed; as a result, Moses was raised to be familiar with his background as a Hebrew. Miriam is called a prophetess, and is traditionally believed to have composed a victory song after Pharaohs army was drowned in the Red Sea. It is considered by many that this poetic couplet is one of the oldest parts of the Biblical account Sing to the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously; Horse and rider he has thrown into the sea. Later, Miriam objected to the marriage of Moses to a Cushite woman, which made her guilty of speaking Lashon hara (gossiping, or speaking negatively about someone), for which she was struck with tzaraat. After Aaron asked Moses to intercede for her, Moses uttered a five-word prayer: El nah refa nah-la O Lord, make her well, and she recovered within seven days. A passage in Micah suggests she had a legacy with significant regard among later prophets: And I brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you from the house of bondage, and I sent before you Moses, and Aaron, and Miriam. Miriam is a popular figure among many Jewish feminists. Some place a Miriams Cup beside the customary Elijahs Cup during the Passover Seder. The cup may contain water in memory of Miriam's well, which according to accompanied the Israelites on their journey through the desert.