Studio 220 Got All Your Marbles

Specialties

Sterling silver jewelry featuring marbles. Made with a patented design that lets you change the marble. Each piece of jewelry comes with several colors of marbles you can interchange, making it several pieces of jewelry — in one!

History

Established in 1998.

In 1998 husband and wife, William Skiles and Lisa Stotska, local Tucson artists, decided that they wanted to embrace the entrepreneurial spirit and make their living as artists and business owners. William was a jeweler and sculptor while Lisa did graphic design and painting. Being true to the idea of creating something unique as artists, William produced what would become ‘The Original Pendant’, an ingenious design that relied on a now patented tension mechanism.

The pendant that William developed held a marble and William could, like magic, pull the marble out of the pendant and put in a new marble color, to the delight and astonishment of everyone who saw it. Lisa promptly exclaimed, «Got all your marbles?» and the company was born. With hard work and a consistent focus, the couple was able to create an entire product line from this initial concept, providing the fodder for a distinctive style and recognizable brand.

Meet the Business Owner

William S.

Business Owner

Jeweler & sculptor William A. Skiles was born in Houghton, Michigan in 1951. He is a self-​taught artist and has worked as a jeweler since 1967. His forte is wax carving, creating fabulous tiny things initially out of wax. Using the lost wax process, the wax original is cast, and becomes whichever metal is chosen. William has chosen the medium of metal as a finished product because of the permanence of the material.

William spent years being an on-​staff goldsmith at a local gold and diamond jewelry store. Around 1998, he and his wife became committed to figuring out how to earn a living themselves.

He initially started out by selling jewelry, being a relatively easy product to earn a living with. As the years have gone by, and as Got All Your Marbles? has taken off, he is now working larger and larger, creating sculptures that are not just jewelry anymore.