Polyp Colony, John Paul Miller (American, 1918–2013), 1995, pure gold, 18-karat gold, enamel, Daphne Farago Collection, reproduced with permission, photo © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston In this interview, Emily Stoehrer explains how she came to her career as a curator and describes some of her approach to the exhibit Past Is Present: Revival Jewelry. […]
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Art Jewelry Forum’s extensive network of international gallery supporters is dedicated to celebrating and showing art jewelry. On Offer is a monthly series that allows AJF galleries to showcase a piece that they’ve personally selected to tempt and inspire you. Please contact the gallery directly for inquiries. Enjoy! MUSEUM WORTHY L. A. Pai Gallery—For her solo exhibition, My Mother’s
In 2016, I submitted a dissertation on the history of craft communities, with an emphasis on contemporary jewelry education and its institutionalization in the 21st-century art school. It is almost exclusively primary source material relating to the founding of the American Craft Council and the Society of North American Goldsmiths, but despite the dense historical
Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon September 27, 2017–January 21, 2018 New Museum, New York, New York, USA Body adornment, and jewelry in particular, play a significant role in signifying one’s gender, status, sexuality, and even ethnicity. Yet it’s rarely discussed or seen in large-scale exhibitions outside regional craft-based museums. (There are of
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The exhibition Jewelry of Ideas: Gifts from the Susan Grant Lewin Collection—on view until May 28, 2018, at the Cooper Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, in New York—comprises 150 exquisitely made and conceptually compelling jewelry objects from the 20th and 21st centuries. The accompanying catalog contextualizes the breadth and depth of the collection in an
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Caroline Broadhead, Tufty Earrings, 1979, photo: artist Caroline Broadhead is a creative visionary who moves with ease across many disciplines, including jewelry, textiles, furniture, installations, and even collaborations with live performers. Her retrospective exhibition at CODA Museum in Apeldoorn, Netherlands, through April 15, 2018, showcases work that spans four decades and dives deep into the
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