Awards College of Fellows – American Craft Council Lifetime Achievement Award – Society of North American Goldsmiths Master Metalsmith – Metal Museum Gold Medal for Consummate Craftsmanship – American Craft Council National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships (1971 and 1977) Underkofler Excellence in Teaching Award – University of Wisconsin—Madison Distinguished Educators Award – James Renwick […]
Nobody ever thought it would be possible for Willem Hoogstede to not be with us any longer. He was always there, in the jewelryverse, like a steady beacon. Not only will his humor and his characteristic voice be missed by many, but his keen eye as well. But his warm attention will be missed most
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Oslo, Norway, March 31, 2024 Tone Vigeland is widely considered a pioneer within the field of art jewelry. Born in 1938 into one of Norway’s most prominent artist families, Tone entered Statens Håndverks- og Kunstindustriskole (today called Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo, the Oslo National Academy of the Arts) in 1955. In 1957 she began her goldsmith
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Peter Skubic, the great jeweler/sculptor, had a fine, large, high-ceilinged apartment in Vienna, as well as a farmhouse in the village of Gamischdorf, Austria. Peter and I were born on the same day, August 11. Peter was one year older than I. Astrologically speaking, we are Leos. Partly because of this coincidence of nature, the
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Peter Skubic, born in Gornji Milanovac on August 11, 1935, was one of the most important and influential artists in contemporary jewelry, a discipline dedicated to opening up jewelry to an autonomous form of artistic expression from the 1960s onward. Skubic formulated this approach succinctly in his artistic credo: “Jewelry is an intellectual discipline.” Starting
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Born in Jerusalem, the internationally renowned jewelry maker and artist Attai Chen received his undergraduate degree from the Belazel Academy of Art and Design. After graduating, he moved to Munich, where he studied under Otto Künzli at the Academy of Fine Arts. Chen received numerous awards including the Herbert Hofmann Prize (2011), the Oberbayerischer Prize for Applied Arts (2012), and the Andrea M.
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Does the absurd have a meaning? Perhaps it is a question of perspective. Claude Chavent was a formidable jeweler who mastered gold, silver, steel, and iron. He also mastered double-entendres, which he loved to play with like throwing a bottle into the sea. From his initial training, as a scientist, he kept seriousness and precision.
The Society of North American Goldsmiths honored Sharon Church (1948–2022) with its Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018 An American Craft Council Fellow, she taught in the Craft + Material Studies department of the School of Art, The University of the Arts, in Philadelphia, PA Her jewelry often contained carved bone and wood in forms inspired
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Karl Bollmann and his wife, Heidi, are among the important international collectors of contemporary jewelry. This endeavor began ca. 1970 with a husband’s gift of diamonds which spurred an interest in jewelry that gradually grew and formed a collection of over 1,000 works. Karl was born in Vienna on August 30, 1943, and died there
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How do you measure a person’s size? Maybe in the echo that stays behind when an actor has left the stage? Kadri’s echo is loud, as is only possible with an extremely talented, passionate, and hard-working performer. As a dedicated and fearless creative nature, Kadri had a talent that pulsated until her last
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“You have to live your life in [such] a way that if you collapse then everyone believes it has happened due to the ultimate feeling of happiness.” This sentence is quoted on the website of HOP gallerii in Tallinn, where in September 2022 Kadri Mälk produced a two-day installation. The quote, from tragi-comedian Ervin Abel,
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Anton Cepka was among the earliest makers of contemporary author jewelry In 1990 he founded the Metal and Jewelry Studio at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava The Slovak artist made not only jewelry, but also sculptures and kinetic structures Sad news reached the world of jewelry makers at the end of
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