Custom jewelry for State College, Pennsylvania

Serving State College and Centre County

State College has an unusual relationship with fine jewelry. It is a town of roughly forty thousand people that swells past a hundred thousand on a football weekend, home to a major research university, and full of people who arrived for a few years and stayed for forty. Sharon has been making jewelry for that population for five decades — engagement rings for graduate students, anniversary pieces for faculty, commissions for collectors who found her at the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts and never went anywhere else.

Working with a local designer means you can hand her the stone. You can see a wax before it is cast, try a ring on at the halfway point, and have a sizing adjusted the same week rather than mailing it somewhere and waiting. For a piece that will be worn every day for the rest of a life, that access matters.

What Sharon makes

Sharon Teaman has designed fine jewelry independently since 1974. She is a master goldsmith and a certified gemologist, holds a master's in metal arts from Penn State, and has shown work at Couture Fashion Week in New York and in juried exhibitions nationwide. Her practice covers custom engagement rings, commissions built around rare colored gemstones, and the resetting of inherited pieces.

Every piece she makes is appraised, photographed and archived in a secure system that clients can access permanently for insurance — a detail most independent makers skip.

Questions from Centre County clients