"Neon Carnival": A Colorful Collection

The idea to start working on a second jewelry line came to me one night while sifting through pins on Pinterest. I kept seeing bright colored and bold accessories popping up in my search feed. I personally love neon colors, so I decided to start designing and making jewelry to build a line or collection of brightly colored and bold jewelry pieces. The name: "Neon Carnival", came to me one day after I desided that I wanted the name to be as fun and colorful as the pieces in the line. Also I wanted the name to reflect the whole idea behind the line and the theme throughout it. Below are some of the images and items that inspired me to create this line.

I can't wait to start designing the pieces for this. I hope to collaborate with other emerging jewelry designers/makers on pieces for this collection of brightly colored jewelry pieces! I can't wait to see where this goes. I will be posting updates to my Instagram account ( @bone_and_rust_art_co ) and Facebook account ( Bone And Rust Art Co. ) as well, so follow me and keep up on the progress.  

Sincerely,

B&RAC Owner | Artist

Britt Burchfield

"It's In Your Jeans" Project

New Project Released Today:

"It's In Your Jeans" Project

       

       For each pair of torn, damaged , or unwanted denim donated to a drop off location, Bone & Rust Art Co. will donate a canned good to The Clarksdale Care Station. If you participate you will be helping the environment and the local community. Please spread the word and tell your friends to "Drop Their Jeans" off at a participating drop-off location! I started this project recently after discovering a pair of American Eagle jeans that had ripped by the back pocket a few months after I had bought them. I had tucked them away for a project later and I ended up discovering them and started patching and sewing them up. The ideas to star a program/project that put all the torn, damaged, and unwanted denim into new repurposed creations like: bags, clothing, totes, apons & bow ties. Each piar of jeans will be given new life weather it's turned into one item or twelve different creations. So far I have only gotten one shop downtown to agree to help me with my project. Today I went to The Shoppe Downtown and talked to the owner and got her to agree to collect and hold donated denim in a box and call me when it gets full. All you need to do is gater up your old torn, damaged, or unwanted jeans ant then stop by a designated drop-off location and tell them that you want to "Drop Your Jeans"... I intend to get at least three more shops and businesses in downtown Clarksdale to join the project and become a participating drop-off location. I will be scouting out future locations tomorrow. I have a few in mind and went to one of them today, but the owner wasn't there so I didn't stick around. I will go back latter and try and catcg her when she's at the store. I hope to have a good bit of inventory by this year's Juke Joint Festival (which is in April). I am starting the project off with six of my personal pairs of worn out jeans that aren't up to par with wearing anymore, but will be better suited as recycled creations. If you would like to get involved: contact me by email. [boneandrustartco@gmail.com] or visit us on Intagram & Facebook! Stay tuned because I will be posting more details, updates, and project news along the journey. 

                                                                     -Thanks

                                                               Britt A. Burchfield

Welcome To The New Year

  I have been working on a new jewelry collection every chance I get. The collection is titled: "The Grit & Glam Jewelry Collection" and I plan on debuting it sometime this year. I am excited for a clean slate; a new beginning. Things are happening and the B&RAC brand is turning into a fun endeavor. Adventure is what my bones crave first and oxygen is second. I have been working on my first t-shirt design for the brand, upcoming events, and possible collaberations with local and national creatives. This Christmas I got more jewelry making supplies and tools, so I'll be prepared for what this new year has in store! Great things are coming from Bone & Rust Art Co., so buckle in, hold on, and get ready for a wild-life & RUST-ic adventures. Make sure that you "Stay Glamou{RUST}" while your along for the ride. This week while I was staying in San Antonio for Christmas vacation, I bought some jewelry supplies as well. I have already made at least three jewelry pieces since Christmas day. I am not only planning a jewelry trunk show, but an art show, a special event, and many collaborations for this year!

    (Happy New Year from Bone & Rusr Art Co.)

   ( My Jewelry Supplies & Me)

"Back to the Bones"

Last week I got back to work with animal bones and my one of a kind Bone & Rust Art Co. artworks. I realized that I hadn't worked with them as a medium in awhile and relized that I hadn't produced many products for B&RAC latley. So, I am dedicating my self to make a few artworks. I am also vowing to keep up my work with the animal bones that I find locally and on my adventures and walks in the woods around my house. I'm wanting to eventually hold a Bone & Rust Art Co.  art show featuring these works. I currently have three in the works. I have endless ideas and concepts that I'll be working with till I get a good many pieces to where I can hold a show. I am hoping to find a place in downtown Clarksdale, MS to host the show, but I am open to hosting it in a different town like; Oxford, Charleston, Cleveland, MS, or Memphis, TN. I am really entertaining the idea of holding the show in an abandoned building. This idea would really compliment my artworks and sculptures, plus it would give off cool vibes! Until then I'll be working with bones, rust, and abandoned relics...

                                               Love,

                                                  Britt A. Burchfield 

P.S.- Here's a  sneak peek at what's to come...

   ("untitled" Work in Progress by B&RAC)

 ("Chandedeer" Work in Progress by B&RAC)

B&RAC Mission + Project

At Bone & Rust Art Co. we want our customers to be the forefront of our brand, our designs, and our advertising. We strive to be original, creative, and colorful at the same time while still pleasing clients, customers, and potential investors. Each design is crafted and handmade by Mississippi Delta Artist Britt Burchfield in Tutwiler, MS. He is the driving force behind B&RAC and stated it back in early 2013. Ever since that first idea he has been branching out and achieving success from being a vendor at the 2014 Juke Joint Festival, to teaming up with Grace Askew (alumni from season 4 of The Voice) and launching "The TN Tumbleweed Jewelry Line", to a new jewelry collection and it's debut in the works! Britt takes vintage, broken, and unwanted jewelry and transforms them into one-of-a-kind statement pieces. He also loves creating new pieces from  scratch. It's a struggle to buy all the supplies that he needs to create these amazing products on a starving artist's budget! So he is needing your help! If you have any unwanted or broken jewelry please donate it to him. You can contact him or wait till he gets some drop-off boxes set up at local Clarksdale establishments sometime in the near future!

-Thanks from Britt & Bone & Rust Art Co.

The Tennessee Tumbleweed Jewelry Line" (Grace Askew Update)

Last Friday night... ( no pun intended) I attended the album release party for Grace Askew's new album "Scaredy Cat". I had a booth set up next to the merch table. I debuted my Grace Akew inspired "Tennessee Tumbkeweed Jewelry Line" and carried some other jewelry that I had left from my first booth at this years Juke Joint Festival to sale. I sold a few pieces and met lots of new people. The music was great and the atmosphere was even better! I hope to do something like this again. Now that the jewelry debut is over I'll be looking for a new adventure...  I want to start working with interior design and decorating.

The True Tennessee TumbleWeed: Grace Askew

From "The Voice" to her voice, Grace Askew has the world in a mystic trance; enticing us in with her smoky voice and her southern charm that's kind on the eyes! Razor slick, Grace could sing a baby to sleep by singing the dictionary! If you can't tell, I'm a fan! She has an unique style to her that  makes the people she meets love her even more. This past April during The Juke Joint Festival in Clarksdale, Mississippi, I met Grace at my Bone & Rust Art Co booth. She bought a one of a kind necklace that I made from salvaged and repurposed items. We talked back and forth over the next few weeks and I pitched the idea to Grace for me to create a jewelry line that was inspired and based upon her charm, personality, music, roots, and soul... I also recently hosted my first ever photo-shoo with Grace in and around downtown Clarksdale. We emailed our ideas concepts and vision for the line back and forth to each other and discussed them almond each other over our social media accounts. We came up with some pieces to start the line with. The name we selected for Grace's first line was " The Tennessee Tumbleweed Jewelry Line". There's a little bit of everything in the collection of pieces; lots of raw repurposed metals, leather, and salvaged bullets. The line will be debuting at Graces new album release party, which will be held on July 25th, at Minnglewood Hall in Memphis and starts at 8:00pm. I'll be there with a table displaying the jewelry line and selling the limited / one of a kind pieces. Jimbo Mathus and the Dirty Crooks will be Graces musical gest. I hope to see some of you there supporting Grace and I on our artistic adventurers.

(I took these pictures during our shoot.)