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11/18/2024

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By Art Jewelry Forum

November 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.

$20,000 SOLO EXHIBITION AWARD
The Linda Peshkin AJF Solo Exhibition Award will support a solo exhibition for an art jewelry maker of any age or nationality, to be completed within two years. The jurors are Caroline Broadhead, Mike Holmes, and Grace Lai. is accepting applications through January 12, 2025. Get guidelines 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

IN MEMORY OF SHARON BERMAN: HOW PASSION FUELED HER JEWELRY JOURNEY
This episode of the Jewelry Journey podcast honors Berman’s memory by sharing her jewelry journey, featuring insights by two people who loved her dearly. Listen here.

VANESSA ARTHUR AND FELICIA MÜLBAIER AT GALERIE DOOR
Two shows—opening November 23, 2024—celebrate the imagination of these young and talented artists. Mülbaier will be present at the opening and she looks forward to tell you about her ideas and working process. Info.

RECEPTION AT PISTACHIOS: DECEMBER 4, 2024
The downtown Chicago gallery will celebrate the exhibition Wearing Red: Ignite the Fire from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Curator Charon Kransen will host a curator talk while you enjoy drinks and charcuterie and marvel at the impressive work each artist has made. This traveling exhibition will feature over 60 critically acclaimed international artists. Conceptually, this exhibition explores the various meanings associated with the bold color red—be it passion, love, lust, anger, war, religion, or status, to name a few.

NEW RINGS BY HELEN BRITTON AT SIENNA PATTI
In her studio, Britton recycles every scrap she can. There are often distinctive little fragments too interesting for her to melt and too small to use in larger works. She has gathered these devilish details of a jeweler’s world into rings, glinting and smiling, waiting for adventure. Shop here.

CYNTHIA TOOPS AND DAN ADAMS: NOT ALL BLACK AND WHITE
Exhibition at Mobilia through December 28, 2024. Toops’s brilliant technical skills are evident as she reinvents and transforms the potential of micromosaic inlay. The artist mixes polymer clay like paint in limitless hues of color. She then rolls it into threads, slicing minute tile beads. Her intricate brooches, beads, and necklaces are miniature marvels. Toops often collaborates with Adams, her husband.

INTERSECTION: WHERE TWO PATHS MEET BY KANYA CHAROENSUPKUL AND BEPPE KESSLER
At Atta Gallery through January 12, 2025. Two veteran female artists, each shaped by distinct countries, cultures, and artistic traditions, draw upon these diverse inspirations—both beautiful and unsettling. Materials are central to both artists’ work. Charoensupkul incorporates paper into her paintings, using it to construct textures and forms, while Kessler integrates textiles. Both artists also engage with collage: Kessler in her small sculptures and wearable art, and Charoensupkul in her paintings. More.

MUSEUMS ACQUIRE WORKS BY TIMOTHY VESKE-MCMAHON AND KEITH LEWIS
Veske-McMahon’s Teem XI is now in RISD’s collection. The Metal Museum now owns Lewis’s O Chão do Nosso Lar (por Ronald), (The Floor of Our Home [for Ronald]). Both artists are represented by Gallery Loupe, and Veske-McMahon serves on AJF’s Editorial Advisory Committee. Congratulations to all!

THE BJC SEEKS PERSONAL ARTIFACTS FROM THE COMMUNITY
The Baltimore Jewelry Center invites community members near and far to share artwork, personal 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, 2024–January 24, 2025, with the gallery shifting and changing as new work and stories are added over the two-month duration of the show. Info.

RESIDENCIES AT THE BALTIMORE JEWELRY CENTER
The BJC offers four different types of residencies for artists at different places in their careers. Artists are given bench access to a fully equipped metalsmithing studio situated in a vibrant community of jewelers and makers. Note that the BJC’s call for residency applications happens once a year and residency timing is dependent on the resident’s schedule. Applications for the Emerging, BIPOC, and Mid-career residencies are due by February 1, 2025. Additional info.

JOB OPENING: RESEARCH ASSISTANT, CONTEMPORARY JEWELRY
This full-time, one-year nonrenewable position at the Dallas Museum of Art is primarily responsible for research, writing, documentation, and administrative support for the 2025 Contemporary Jewelry exhibition and the last stages of the corresponding catalog. This project is in the final year; the focus will be primarily on the exhibition and website components. More.

CALL FOR ENTRY: JEWELLERY FESTIVAL SILVER
Note the deadline and save the date! 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!” Deadline for applications: January 20, 2025. Info.

UTE DECKER OPENS STUDIO TO PUBLIC: NOVEMBER 21–24, 2024
During Cockpit Open Studios you can meet Decker and 150 other leading contemporary makers, artists, designers, and craftspeople. See hand-crafted pieces by emerging makers and internationally exhibited artworks by artists represented in major museums. Over two weekends—first at the Bloomsbury Studios and the following weekend at the Deptford Studios—visitors will get the rare opportunity to enter workshops and explore and discover the latest works by some of the UK’s most celebrated makers in a range of disciplines. Bloomsbury 21–24 Nov, Deptford 29 Nov–1 Dec, London Cockpit Bloomsbury, Cockpit Yard, Northington Street, London WC1N 2NP, Cockpit Deptford, 18-22 Creekside, London SE8 3DZ. More info.

CHERYL R. RILEY HAS STARTED A NEW SUITE OF JEWELRY
During a month-long residency at the historic Martin House, designed by the iconic architect Frank Lloyd Wright, @cherylrriley began a new series of Sculptures in the Form of a Necklace using fidget toys discovered in the gift shop.

OPEN CALL: FERTILE GROUND EXHIBITION
This exhibition, to be held during Munich Jewellery Week 2025, will explore creation, nurturing, and transformation through jewelry, sculpture, body adornment, and writing. The intention is to delve into the fertile space where ideas of motherhood, care, and creation converge, while also acknowledging the pressures and challenges that accompany these roles—including the choice not to pursue parenthood. Deadline: December 1, 2024. Info.

OTHER NEWS

LECTURE BY HELENA LEHTINEN AND EIJA MUSTONEN
The talk, in English, will be given on November 20, at 6.30 p.m., in the Klasse für Schmuck und Gerät Prof. Karen Pontoppidan, room A.ZG1_15 of the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, in Munich.

TINCAL LAB CHALLENGE 2024 JEWELRY AND FREEDOM
This year, the annual international collective exhibition presents around 200 pieces by 78 jewelers from 31 different countries. Theme: Freedom. Pieces are available online, for view and for sale. Info.

AUCTION: ART JEWELRY AND JEWELS
From Quittenbaum, December 4, 2024, at 2 p.m. local time. Info.

THE FASCINATION OF JEWELLERY, AT COLOGNE MUSEUM OF APPLIED ARTS
On December 18, 2024, the museum inaugurates the first comprehensive exhibition of its jewelry collection. Jewelry art from different epochs will be presented, ranging from ancient gems from the 5th millennium BC to contemporary jewelry and special pieces. You’ll see a whopping 370 selected exhibits! More.

OPEN CALL: ERFURT CITY GOLDSMITH 2025
Seeking an artist with a professional specialization in goldsmithing or jewelry design with the ambition to further develop their own position as a jewelry artist during their stay in the city. Deadline: November 24, 2024. Email your application here. Inf o.

RAD PAV HAS LAUNCHED A JOURNAL
It will include writing on contemporary jewelry, and object and craft practice. The first essay is by Zoe Black (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Hine, Pākehā). Black writes about the Pōneke-based artist Turumeke Harrington, who is charmed by charms. Read it here.

PAGES

A CENTURY OF TOMORROWS, BY GLENN ADAMSON
For millennia, predicting the future was the province of priests and prophets, the realm of astrologers and seers. In the 20th century, futurologists emerged, claiming data could make planning a rational certainty. Many trend forecasters amassed power as public intellectuals, even as their predictions proved incorrect. Now we drown in a cacophony of potential futures. Adamson offers an account of how the world was transformed by futurecasting. He reveals six key themes that have structured visions of what’s next. Arriving at a moment of collective anxiety and fragile hope, this book shows how projections for the future are, ultimately, debates about the present. More. The book’s not about jewelry, but Adamson is an important writer on craft.

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