About Me
From an early age, Mark Grosser was drawn to metal as a
media of expression.  Before reaching double digits, he began
making things out of scrap wire: rings, pendants, Christmas
ornaments, and other such odd and end baubles. When he
arrived at high school, he immediately gravitated to the
jewelry classes offered in the curriculum. Even then, this was
not enough. He supplemented his education by taking every
jewelry class offered by the Indianapolis Museum of Art.He is
spoken of as a dedicated craftsmen by old high school friends,
that remember him diligently filing rings in the back of their
English class when he was 14 years old.

Mark accepted his first official job in the jewelry industry
when he was 17, working for a company in downtown
Indianapolis that exclusively produced Masonic jewelry. Here
he learned all of the tedium and perfectionism that high
quality production demanded. Though this work was tiring, it
ingrained in Mark a drive for perfection that is still prevalent
in his dogged execution of good craft.

In the years since then, he has wholly managed a production
shop in which he orchestrated the workload of 12 jewelers
other than himself, owned a jewelry store, and then finally
achieved his destination: A combined and fully equipped
jewelry shop and gallery where he could design, sell, and
display not only the works of other artists, but his own
original works as well.

It was not an easy road to hoe, though.  Fortunately enough,
Mark enjoyed the work he did, and followed the road where it
led. On its course, he pursued 80 hours of intensive bench
testing through Jeweler's of America to become one of their
elite: They have over 10,000 members, but only 160 can claim
the title of Master Jeweler as Mark did. He is currently a
Certified Master Bench Jeweler: The only one in the state of
Indiana.

This is not the only group with whom Mark is affiliated: He is
also a member of the Indiana Jeweler's Association, as well as
Bench Jewelers of America.

And somewhere in business and accomplishment, he has found
the time to work as a track photographer for numerous events
at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.  This paved the way for him
to work from two passions:  auto racing and jewelry.  Mark
has produced jewelry for some of the drivers he has met, not
the least of which including Mario Andretti and Richard Petty.