Studio & Events

UPCOMING STUDIO EVENTS AT THE LOCKET SISTERS

Hold Them Close: A Locket-Making Circle Honoring the Changing Cycles of Motherhood.

  • WHO: Join a circle of Moms honoring the changing cycles of motherhood. Whether it's the Mom of a young adult who set off for college, work or travel, or watching your children create families of their own, or releasing your sweet baby into kindergarten, the tension between gratitude and grief often feels present. Bring a photo (or a few) celebrating what you're releasing, and be guided in reflections and craft as you participate in putting your photo in your new locket.
  • WHAT: Bring a photo (or a few) celebrating what you're releasing, and be guided in both reflections and craft as you participate in putting your photo in your new locket. Note: Resin needs 48 hours to cure, so your locket will be shipped to you once dry.
  • WHEN: Sunday, November 8th, 2026
  • TIME: 3pm-5pm
  • ENJOY: Drinks, snacks, a guided experience in the company of a creative community
  • COST: $125 (includes the Little Locket Necklace or a $125 credit toward any other locket

    Reserve Your Seat

    SHOP AND BROWSE LOCKETS IN REAL LIFE

    Occasionally, our local customers in or near the Twin Cities prefer to see and hold the lockets in real life. We'd love to welcome you in! 

    Here's what to know before you visit:

    • We welcome customers as guests in our studio by appointment only.
    • We are in studio 202 of the California Building in the NE Minneapolis Art District. 
    • Our address is: 2205 California Street NE, Minneapolis, MN 55418
    • Parking is free on the street, and the little lot next to Mojo's Cafe, east of the California Building.
    • Once you arrive, please text or call us in the studio at 612-567-2397 so we can come down and let you in.
    • There is a ramp on the east side of the building for wheelchair access, plus a freight elevator that the Locket Sisters team can guide you to as needed.

    Schedule a time to visit the Locket Sisters studio here:

    Schedule Appointment

    EXPERIENCE PERMANENT JEWELRY

    In 2023 we added Permanent Jewelry to our repertoire of jewelry. Since then, we've welcomed hundreds of guests into our space to enjoy the space, adorn themselves with beautiful jewelry, and connect with their people. To learn more about permanent jewelry at the Locket Sisters go here or schedule via the button below.

    Schedule Appointment

    In 2015 my sister told me there was an opening for a shared studio space in the California Building within the Northeast Minneapolis Art District. I told her we weren't ready, she said the meeting was Tuesday at 3, she'd go alone if needed.

    I met her there as a form of resistance to the leap, but knew right away we'd be signing the lease. We did a tour with Jennifer Young, one of the owners of the building, and as she walked us around and showed us the space, I gathered that she was formative in turning Northeast Minneapolis into an Arts District, so I asked if she was kind of a big deal -- she smiled.

    We initially had a studio mate, a well-known Minneapolis photographer named Dietrich Gesk, who had been in the space since the late 80s or early 90s. He'd shared with many other photographers who passed through the space before us, but we'd be the last. By 2020 he left the space, and we decided to take over the entire space. The Locket Sisters, by then, was outpacing our photography work. 

    With a wall of south-facing windows, high ceilings, our favorite coffee shop in the city right below us, and a community of artists and neighbors to bump elbows with, the space we inhabit feels like the childhood home of my adulthood. It's calm, it's beautiful, it's welcoming. We are so grateful, and lucky, to inhabit this space, and to be part of the California Building community. 

    Studio 202 in the California Building has grown with us over the years. Shifting from shared, to focused on photography, to more shared, to my husband's team working there through COVID shutdowns, to primarily presenting the Locket Sisters. 

    Now, we're able to host parties for permanent jewelry guests big and small, participate in Art-a-Whirl, and relax into the wide open space with the big windows and the plants everywhere whenever we show up to make your lockets.

    While the space has shifted many times over the years to accommodate the ideas it holds, one thing we protect and preserve continuously is the high-vibration energy that everyone inevitably feels as they walk in, look up and around, and whisper wow.

    This space is special. We're grateful to have it, to work in it, to nourish it as it nourishes us, and nourishes the lockets we make for you too. 

    Hope you can see it someday.

    Warmly,

    Allyssa