Blue Bayer is a self taught New York-based artisan. He has traveled the world living solely from his work for the past 20 years. A seasoned street artist he cut his teeth selling on the streets of Key West to San Francisco and Europe to New York.

Blue was deeply influenced by his upbringing on the edge of the coal field wastes of Western Pennsylvania. He spent his boyhood hunting and fishing the vast tracks outside the family home.
Working in the Ohio Valley as a young man he had a front row seat for the disastrous collapse of the manufacturing sector in the 1970's and 80's. He worked in the same building that his WWI veteran grandfather had worked during WWII making cannon barrels for the massive Howitzers. Blue spent many stolen hours climbing around the remains of the old city block wide factory collecting bits.

It is this fusion of nature and machine that is the underpinning for Blue's collections.

His wandering 20 year span would have him living on a sailboat for years in the Florida Keys. He also has been involved with the Renaissance Festival circuit where he has sold his work for more than 20 years. The year 2000 found him renovating and living in an old cabin in Tennessee which still serves as a retreat and part time studio.


" Son, what this country needs right now is people who make things. " Blue's father W.A. Bayer SR. summer of 1982

New York is the remaining bastion of the American jewelry and accessories design industry. It is where the best talent and resources come together. The advent of online sales has led to a palpable renaissance in the realm of people who make things in NYC. Blue is pleased to have the new wind for American craft filling the sails.


Blue lives and creates his work in New York's Alphabet City/ Lower East Side. It's a scant 150 miles from where his ancestors settle in Berks county PA in the early 1700's.
He and his partner Megan are blessed by an inspiring and hard to keep up with little girl. He reports being very happy to get up in the morning.

Written in third person it really gets away from using all the I's.