Welcome to the Jewelry District, a podcast by J.C.K. brought to you by the Debears Institute of Diamonds.

Today, Rob Bates and Victoria Gamalski talk with Olga Olexenko, founder of the Strong and Precious Art Foundation.

Hey, everyone.

Welcome to the jewelry district.

This is Victoria Gimelski, editor-in-chief of JCPK and J-CK Online.com, calling in from Los Angeles, and I'm with

Rob Bates, news director of J-CK and J-CKOnline.com, calling in from J-CK World Headquarters in New York City.

You're in the office.

Yes, and you're coming to New York next week, I believe.

I am coming, and I'm super excited.

So by the time this episode airs, I will be in town for, of course, New York City Jewelry Week,

a week long series of events, exhibitions, presentations, talks, all around jewelry,

including one that, as you'll soon hear from our guests, involves our guest today.

And in fact, I'm going to be leading a talk with her at the very end of the week on Friday,

November 17th, 9 in the morning at Maria Gallery. It's MRIA and Tribeca about how precious

UA, Ukrainian jewelry, Ukrainian jewelry motifs, and the Strong and Precious Foundation.

So I've gotten ahead of ourselves because that's what our guest today is representing.

So I guess I should go ahead and introduce her, but we are thrilled to have Olga Olixenko,

who's the founder of the Strong and Precious Foundation, a wonderful organization promoting

Ukrainian design and craftsmanship and arecious Foundation, a wonderful organization promoting Ukrainian design

and craftsmanship and a cohort of very, very talented jewelers that I've had the pleasure of,

if not meeting in person, at least admiring their work from afar. So welcome, Olga. It's so

nice to have you. Hi. Thank you for having me. Yeah. So Rob asked me about New York City Jewelry

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