OROPOPO is a husband and wife duo who make jewelry and leather objects in their New Mexico studio drawing from the iconography of the American Southwest.
Karole's professional background is in architecture and structural engineering. The Oropopo name is from her birthplace on the coast of Venezuela. Grady is a native of New Mexico, a writer, and literary editor; he has specialized in desert literature and its aesthetics. Together, they refine a narrative that associates site and culture with contemporary technology.
Leather Bandanas
We have our own relationship to the land and culture and those indefinable qualities that are New Mexico and the Southwest.
If we share anything with the creative work done in this region for thousands of years it would be the tradition of artists trying to make beautiful things that convey a sense of the time and place we inhabit.