Constance Abernathy, born Constance Davies (June 20, 1931-June 18, 1994) in Detroit, Michigan attended Cass Technical High School and University of Michigan Architecture school. She worked on a special project studying with Buckminster Fuller to create the geodesic dome egg carton form of architecture. She flew under the St. Louis arch in a plane with Fuller and she functioned as Fuller's secretary maintaining sections of his files and archives.^[1][2]

She married J. T. Abernathy, a potter and art professor at University of Michigan in the 1950s but their union did not last long. She left Ann Arbor, Michigan for Paris shortly after, arriving in the swinging scene of the Paris 1960s. She worked as an architect all over Europe and married a filmmaker.

She started to collect beads and fabrics from Morocco. After her French divorce, she moved to New York City and became a jeweler in the Chelsea area. In New York City she befriended and worked with many famous artists. Among her artist friends were many well known painters and sculptors like Larry Rivers, Peter Reginato, Peter Young, Ronnie Landfield, Dan Christensen, and dozens of other artists, writers and musicians. In the 1980s her works started to include precious gems and cast parts she created. Her big bead necklaces were collected by Clarice Cosby and many others. ^[3][4] She attempted to create a book to explain some of her various braiding and special techniques.

In the early 1990s she was diagnosed with cancer and she succumbed to her illness in 1994. Before she died she had a farewell party for her closest friends; and she distributed her worldly possessions among them as her way of saying goodbye. She died at home in her Chelsea apartment in New York City soon after her party.

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