West Wendover, Nevada is a straight shot west from Salt Lake City, making it the closest destination for residents of Utah s capital to enjoy casinos, legal recreational weed, and looser liquor laws.
Today, that sky blue hue seems prophetic.
Wadsworth is an award-winning artist famed for her hand-cut natural turquoise necklaces. The Hopi/Navajo jeweler was one of more than 100 Native artists selling her work at the 2020 Virtual Winter Market. Some of the artwork ranges from jewelry and pottery to ornaments, and can be still be viewed and purchased at swaia.org.
Wadsworth learned to shape finely graduated turquoise beads from her late mother Cheryl Yestewa and her father Glenn Wadsworth. The couple supported their nine children by selling their jewelry.
Wadsworth began her career at age “8 or 9” drilling holes through turquoise beads with an electric drill.