ShoppingShopping Spotlight: The Museum Store
Leah LeMoineDecember 27, 2025
In her 26 years at Phoenix Art Museum, with the last 12 as retail director of The Museum Store, Jennifer Barnella has seen a sea change in museum commerce.
The Heard Museum Shop is home to hundreds of authentic modern and vintage Native American jewelry pieces, like this 1970s Navajo necklace with intricate silverwork and bold turquoise settings.
Tourists often overlook resort gift shops, assuming they’re full of overpriced trinkets. Locals might never visit a resort to shop. Both approaches are flawed – especially in the case of this resort, where the gift shop is as carefully curated as the art that permeates the property. The boutique offers work by artists who live in Cattle Track, an art community across the street from the resort. Established in 1929, Cattle Track has been “maintaining...
The PHiXShopping: Jade & Clover
Brooke TyburskiMarch 30, 2022
Giselle Ruggeberg has always had a deep love of two things: plants and giving gifts. These penchants were the inspiration behind Jade & Clover, a plant and gift shop that features a wide range of lifestyle products. She opened her first location in the hip Deep Ellum neighborhood in Dallas, Texas, in 2016. “It wasn’t just something that happened overnight,” Ruggeberg says. “I was just trying to make it super interactive, and it evolved and...