Summer has started, and jewelry students around the globe are frantically finishing their coursework and installing end-of-year exhibitions—or maybe relaxing after finishing a challenging semester! For this photo essay, we asked professors from AJF member schools to identify one outstanding grad or undergrad from their class. Here, we present their work. (This opportunity to show off student work is one of the benefits for AJF member schools; see all the benefits here.) Congratulations to all of the students who were selected!
Keep your eyes on the career trajectories of these ambitious new makers—they represent the next generation of jewelry artists!
Click on the photos to learn about what they show.
You can also check out the graduate portfolios of each school’s other students. Do so by clicking on any school’s logo here, then scroll to the bottom of the page.
![“My jewelry aims to create new worlds that are noisy and entangled with millions of nonhuman others,” says Bruwer. “A chaotic but organized relationship that is microscopic in nature is created which utilizes jewelry as the chosen mediator. My jewelry … [is] the frame through which we can notice the irreversible damage we have caused to the environment, which has in term greatly impacted all nonhuman life forms, including the ant.” | Willemien Stephni Bruwe, Ruby from a Bite, 2021. This neckpiece is made out of 3D-printed plastic that was laboriously sanded down and spray painted until smooth. The chains where first designed in RhinoCAD, and reinterpret the shape of the ant’s body into a contemporary and personal shape. Red faux leather is used to tie the chains together to signify the blood left on the skin after the bite of an ant, photo: Shannon Grobler and artist. @wsbruwer @krieke_grond](https://artjewelryforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/MG_6929_800-x-600.jpg "“My jewelry aims to create new worlds that are noisy and entangled with millions of nonhuman others,” says Bruwer. “A chaotic but organized relationship that is microscopic in nature is created which utilizes jewelry as the chosen mediator. My jewelry … [is] the frame through which we can notice the irreversible damage we have caused to the environment, which has in term greatly impacted all nonhuman life forms, including the ant.” | Willemien Stephni Bruwe, Ruby from a Bite, 2021. This neckpiece is made out of 3D-printed plastic that was laboriously sanded down and spray painted until smooth. The chains where first designed in RhinoCAD, and reinterpret the shape of the ant’s body into a contemporary and personal shape. Red faux leather is used to tie the chains together to signify the blood left on the skin after the bite of an ant, photo: Shannon Grobler and artist. @wsbruwer @krieke_grond")
