AJF is a nonprofit. That means our budget comes only from memberships and donations. Your gifts in 2025 contributed to a year of real growth and connection.
Memberships sustain AJF’s commitment to a free and accessible art jewelry press. No paywalls, no barriers, just thoughtful writing, education, and programming available to everyone who loves this field.
This year, as part of our mission to advocate for the field of contemporary art jewelry, we did the following. Donors and members laid the foundation for all of this work. Thank you for your support! We look forward to doing more next year—and here’s wishing you a 2026 filled with glorious jewelry!
In 2025, we published 116 articles. For these, we commissioned 36 writers from 15 countries to interview 37 people; review three exhibitions and two books; and pen 26 essays, remembrances, and other types of articles. This publishing raises awareness of the field, documents it, and will assist researchers of the future.
Some 875 readers enjoyed our most popular article, Looking at the Cameo through a Photographer’s Lens, by Sebastian Grant. In it, Grant wrote about Coreen Simpson’s Black Cameo.
Check it out here.
In 2025, AJF promoted the work of exactly 200 artists through On Offer. On Offer publishes twice a month. It helps you find special pieces to add to your jewelry box, and builds exposure for artists and their gallerists!
At any given moment, our website lists some 70 jewelry exhibitions currently showing across the globe. We update them constantly so you can find out what’s on view whenever and wherever you’re traveling!
Reference the exhibition listings here.
We track almost 50 jewelry-focused events on our Events page. That way, you know what’s happening when.
Find the events listings here.
This year alone, we reported more than 650 newsbytes. “Have you heard” covers jewelry-focused awards, events, calls for entry, books, articles in other media sources, and more—keeping you in the know!
We recorded and published 19 videos on our website. Our Munich speaker series launched with 16 lectures that explored controversial areas of our field. Watch those here.
AJF Presents, held in-person at NYCJW25, offered insights into the diverse strategies, challenges, and opportunities museums have in acquisition, exhibition, and education. Watch it here. And …
We reached a virtual audience of over 200 jewelry lovers in 45 countries. Our AJF Live events give fascinating glimpses into the careers of our guests. We record all of our programs and post them on our website.
Watch AJF Live with Melanie Eddy here, and take in AJF Live with Bryna Pomp here.
We published guides to Munich’s jewelry week and to NYCJW25. More than 1,700 people referenced our guide to Munich. There were several guides, but ours was the most comprehensive. We’ll compile it again in 2026 so you can find your way around the biggest jewelry event in the world!
Our guide to NYCJW25 built awareness for AJF members and promoted their events—a benefit of membership.
We launched the next AJF Young Artist Award. Aren’t you dying to find out who the runners up will be and who will win? The jury is hard at work reviewing submissions. We’re excited to hear their decision!
We also launched Brooklyn Metal Works’s inaugural residency program through fiscal sponsorship. The Resonance Residency offers artists an opportunity to develop their work and studio practice while utilizing the unique advantages that come from being in New York City, an important hub of the contemporary jewelry scene. This residency will provide opportunities for jewelers at every level of their career to continue their studio practice or develop a new body of work.
Find out more here.
We expanded AJF’s staff. What a delight to have Danielle deCongé, who serves as our membership + programs coordinator, on board! She may already be in touch with many of you.
And we traveled a heck of a lot! We attended two jewelry festivals: Munich’s jewelry week and NYCJW25. And we explored the jewelry scenes in five other cities, domestic and international: Santa Fe, Dallas, Fort Worth, Mexico City, and Oaxaca City.
AJF’s highly curated trips provide an opportunity to travel with like-minded enthusiasts and have access to venues and activities you couldn’t do on your own. Meet new people, experience what’s new and cutting edge in the art jewelry world, and enjoy the cultural scene of the cities we visit. Let us do the planning so you don’t have to.
We welcome your comments on our publishing, and we will publish letters that engage with our articles in a thoughtful and polite manner. Please submit letters to the editor electronically; do so here. The page on which we publish Letters to the Editor is here.
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