April 13, 2010: Day One At last, after a lot of planning, the Gray Area symposium opened at the Biblioteca de Mexico in Mexico City. For those of you who don’t know, the Gray Area is an ambitious project organized by the Amsterdam-based Otro Diseno Foundation for Cultural Cooperation and Development. As the program notes […]
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Installation, No Problem(?), Gallery Loupe, 2010 Shirly Bar-Amotz, Zoo: Bunny 2 Brooch, teflon plated copper, 18 karat gold, silver, zircon, 35 x 60 x 20 mm
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Uncharacteristically, I boarded a train at four in the morning on Friday, January 22, 2010 for an eight-hour trip to Richmond, Virginia. I had not ridden a northbound train from the South since I was a junior in high school. What could possibly be my motivation, you wonder? Why, a jewelry exhibition, of course. But
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Erin Rose Gardner, Pink Things (brooch), 2009, silver, enamel paint and steel pin back, courtesy of the artist emiko oye, The Duchess 2 from ‘My First Royal Jewels Jewellery Collection 2008,’ 2008, repurposed LEGO®, rubber cord, sterling silver, courtesy of the artist Gemstones and the history of jewelry as a signifier of luxury (and decadence)
Gijs Bakker is a well-known Dutch jeweler and the artistic director of Chi ha paura . . .? as well as various other design initiatives. Damian Skinner interviewed him on the occasion of Designers on Jewelry: Twelve years of jewelry production by Chi ha paura…? at the San Francisco Museum of Craft+Design in January 2010. Damian Skinner:
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Rachel Timmins, I Want To Be A Gold Lobster With Blue Puffs, 2009, found fabric, wool yarn, copper, thread, Poly-Fil stuffing, found gloves, 19 x 12 x 4 inches each Nick Mullins, Brooch 2, 2009, resin, wood, paint, 6 x 4 x 2 inches For me, the shift came when I began electroforming vessels rather
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Schmuck 2010, held in Munich from March 3 –9, 2010, was the center of five fever-pitched days of jewelry and adornment. Over 30 exhibitions were presented citywide, representing a variety of countries, academic programs and individual studio jewelers. Installation detail, Schmuck 2010 Adam Grinovich, Necklace: Function & sense #1: Function 1, 2008, leather, polish, iron,
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AJF is pleased to announce that the Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton, Massachusetts, is the recipient of the AJF 2010 jewelry exhibition award. Perry A Price, assistant curator of exhibitions and collections, submitted the winning proposal. The $1000 award will support the production of a catalog for the exhibition Atelier Janiyé and the Legacy of Miye
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