Jeff Sorensen & Myan Sorensen

Dancing Elk Designs, the husband/wife team of Jeff and Myan Sorensen, has been creating works of wearable art from naturally shed antler since 1989. Hiking and searching the hills and backcountry of Colorado and the West provides them with shed deer and elk antler. The designs evolve by means of a creative relationship first with the antler itself, observing what each piece’s best qualities are to be revealed. Shape? Color? Texture? Jeff not only finds the antler, but also takes the first step of cutting and shaping each piece. Myan’s relationship is then with the refined antler piece. There is an important relationship between the artists. Myan never knows what Jeff will cut and Jeff never knows what Myan will do with the piece. It allows full exploration and artistic license to each partner. The polishing and wire and stone embellishments bridge the piece to make it complete. “We see the result of our work as a transformation of an organic gift of Nature to a useful adornment reflecting our values of honoring wildlife and Mother Earth. We have been doing juries art shows in the West, Midwest and Southwest for 25 years. Veteran artists and road warriors, we are professional artists in every way.”