December 2024, Part 2
Art Jewelry Forum is pleased to share the news that members of our community find noteworthy. Is something missing? The success of this compilation of compelling events, news, and items of interest to the jewelry community depends on YOUR participation. If you’re a member of AJF at the Silver level or above, you can add news and ideas to this bi-monthly report by going here. If you aren’t a member, but would like to become one, join AJF here.
GET $20,000 TO MOUNT AN EXHIBITION OF YOUR JEWELRY!
The Solo Exhibition Award, from AJF, will support a solo exhibition for an art jewelry maker of any age or nationality. The jurors are Caroline Broadhead, Mike Holmes, and Grace Lai. Applications accepted through January 12, 2025. Get guidelines here.
SAVE THE DATES FOR AJF TRIPS IN 2025!
AJF’s highly curated trips provide an opportunity to travel with like-minded enthusiasts and give you access to venues and activities you couldn’t do on your own. We have two trips planned. Santa Fe, New Mexico: May 12–15, 2025. And Mexico City, Mexico: September 7–10, 2025, with an optional Oaxaca add-on September 12–14. Become a member at the Gold level for priority invitation to AJF’s trips. Additional info here.
FEEL LIKE SEEING A JEWELRY SHOW?
Find listings from around the world on our dedicated exhibition page.
EVENTS
We have a dedicated page for them. Go here to see the list.
FROM OUR MEMBERS
ORNAMENTA: SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2025
The Baltimore Jewelry Center’s annual benefit party will take place 7–11 p.m. at 2640 Space. Ornamenta includes a silent auction where you can bid on beautiful pieces of art jewelry to grow your collection, as well as a raffle of goodies from BJC supporters. This year’s event is inspired by all things diamond, and your finest cocktail attire is requested! Even if you’re not local to Baltimore there are ways you can support the BJC’s annual fundraiser! Get more info and purchase tickets here.
NEW WORK BY ARATA FUCHI AT MOBILIA GALLERY
Fuchi’s brilliant technical skills and background in industrial design are evident in his various techniques and materials, including Shibuichi, a traditional Japanese alloy of copper and silver. For the gold spheres in the earrings, he uses Keum-Boo, the ancient Korean gilding technique. Fuchi’s work is in the collections of The Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum; The Dallas Museum of Art; the Alice and Louis Koch Collection; and other institutions. See more.
CALL FOR ENTRY: JEWELLERY FESTIVAL SILVER
The next edition of the Jewellery Festival SILVER will take place in Legnica, Poland, on May 9–10, 2025. The main event of the festival is the International Jewellery Competition. Its current edition has the theme “WOW Effect!” A post-competition exhibition will take place. Participation in the competition is free (participants cover only shipping). Deadline: January 20, 2025. Info.
VIRTUAL CONTENT FROM NYCJW24
Did you miss any of the in-person talks hosted at the Museum of Arts and Design on November 19? You get another chance: Videos are available on NYCJW’s YouTube channel. Go here.
CORRINA GOUTOS NAMED 2025 ARTIST IN RESIDENCE AT FvdB FOUNDATION
Goutos has twice been a finalist for AJF’s Young Artist Award, most recently in 2024. She coined the term “Anthrosmithing” to describe her interdisciplinary practice. She renounces the concept of a “raw material,” instead considering a craftsperson but one of many agents constantly reshaping a material. The Françoise van den Bosch residency is made possible by Rian de Jong and Herman Marres.
CALL FOR THE IN THE MAKING: A COMMUNITY ARCHIVING PROJECT EXHIBITION
The Baltimore Jewelry Center invites community members near and far to share artwork, personal artifacts (sketches, notes, images), and stories related to your engagement with the BJC to help capture its community-sourced history and launch its digital archive project. Submitted work and stories will be displayed in the gallery December 6–January 24, with the gallery shifting and changing as new work and stories are added over the two-month duration of the show. More.
CAROLINE BROADHEAD TO LECTURE AT DIE NEUE SAMMLUNG
Free, in English, in the Pinakothek der Moderne Ernst von Siemens-Auditorium, March 16, 2025, 11 a.m. More info.
OTHER NEWS
JURGITA LUDAVIČIENĖ TALKS ABOUT THE SCHMUCK SPECIAL SHOW
As juror, she selected 60+ artists from the almost 800 who submitted. “Jewellery needs a lot of space because just as much energy, power, ideas, and hours of work go into a piece of jewellery as into a large sculpture,” she says. More.
ISRAEL BIENNIAL OF CONTEMPORARY JEWELRY SECOND EDITION
“Echoes of the Untaken Path” reflects on the possibilities left behind. It invites you to explore what remains in the wake of a decision: the unchosen futures, the silent possibilities, and the unseen forces that shape our journeys. Seventeen artists were selected: Aimee Clinger, Andrzej Boss, Antal Zilahi, Beatrice Chiang, Denis Music, Eden Danieli & Carmel Shahar, Eden Herman Rosenblum, Elisabeth Drude, Fanni Nagy, Ildikó Dánfalvi, Ji Young Kim, Lorena Lazard, Maya Shochat, Michał Fatyga, Sara Marzialetti, Tatiana Mazaeva, and Yier Lu. View it online through digital eternity, here.
AOTEAROA JEWELLERY TRIENNIAL OPENS MARCH 8, 2025
The year-long event provides opportunities for New Zealand curators and artists to produce unique and high-quality work with impact. It’s based on the former concept of the Dowse Jewellery Biennial and is presented in partnership with museums and galleries. Website.
FINALIST FOR TURNER PRIZE: PIO ABAD
Abad critiques how museums collect, display, and interpret. Objects take on new resonance when displayed alongside his own drawings and sculptures made with his wife, Frances Wadsworth Jones. Kiss the Hand You Cannot Bite, for example, reimagines Imelda Marcos’s giant bejeweled bracelet, a piece from a jewelry hoard seized by US customs. “We were playing with different ways of interpreting these jewels, playing with scale,” Pio said in an interview with Vogue. “It’s for the bodies of people who carry the excesses of empire; we wanted that same sense of encountering a corpse.” More from the Tate, where the work of winner Jasleen Kaur and the finalists is on view.
CREATING HOLES IN AN OVERFULL WORLD
The Hole, an exhibition in Shenzhen, China, embodies the interplay of potentiality and transformation. The holes signify spatial constructs, both physical and imagined, that serve as pathways through time and space, blending tangible and intangible realms. With nearly 80 works, the exhibition presents a tension between solid and void, real and virtual. The exhibition is merely a node; the meanings it evokes will continue to extend and unfold. Through January 5, 2025. Info.
YOUR JEWELRY COULD POWER YOUR DEVICES
Researchers have developed a technology that will allow wearables to be powered by the human body. It uses the body’s ability to transmit radio frequency energy and wirelessly distributes it to devices worn on the body—eliminating the need for batteries. Now they need artists who can design attractive jewelry for the tech! More.
ARTISTS ARE TURNING AIR POLLUTION INTO JEWELRY
Daan Rosegard/Studio Roosegaarde compresses disgusting smog particles into rings. They have a waiting list of 3,200+ people who want one! More. (For more info about projects by other artists, listen to this BBC program.)
OPPORTUNITIES
SEEKING JEWELRY AND METALSMITHING INSTRUCTORS
Positions available to teach adult and kids’ jewelry and metalsmithing classes and workshops at EatMetal Inc. Studio, NJ. Areas of interest: beginners to advanced stone setting, wax carving, fabrication, hollow forming, chain-making, silversmithing, forging, and more. Info.
Logo drawn from eatmetal.org
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FEAST: CONTEMPORARY JEWELRY FROM THE SUSAN BEECH COLLECTION
Marvel at the home of American collector Susan Beech. Since 1991, she has been transforming her house into an extraordinary environment in which her extensive jewelry collection interacts with craft and fine art, all against a backdrop of Art Deco glamour. Beauty is entwined with darker forces of death and decay, and glimpses of pleasure are complicated by a nod to the surreal and uncanny. The result: a wholly original and fascinating stage for a major collection of contemporary jewelry thoughtfully assembled over four decades. More.
WARWICK FREEMAN: HOOK HAND HEART STAR
Freeman’s works tell of his life, culture, and history, as well as the history of Aotearoa New Zealand and the country’s unique materials. Freeman—the Pākehā, as the Māori call descendants with European roots—has long been a mediator between the cultures. In the 1980s he co-revolutionized the world of New Zealand jewelry, which led to a unique artistic language. Freeman discovers forms, symbols, and images that connect Māori, Polynesian, and European civilizations through emblematic meanings that transcend their cultures. More.
ROBERT BAINES: PLENITUDE
Empowered by his extensive research into archaeometallurgy, Baines connects the artistry and techniques of ancient Greek and Etruscan goldsmiths with modern-day innovation. His creations, infused with wry humor and technical brilliance, challenge our perceptions and captivate the eye. In his world, ancient techniques are revived and reimagined and mythology is both respected and playfully deconstructed. This isn’t just a book; it’s a glimpse into the mind of a goldsmith. More.
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