The Iranian designer-artist Banafsheh Hemmati has designed jewelry, furniture, landscape, light, and accessories for more than 20 years. She began designing jewelry to go with the clothes she designed for herself. “I could find no jewelry to suit them,” says Hemmati. “Ultimately, I designed the jewelry that suited them best.” Born in Tehran in 1974, […]
In a joint presentation by Arnoldsche and AJF during Schmuck 2023, Susan Cummins and Toni Greenbaum gave a brief talk about In Flux: American Jewelry and the Counterculture and North by Northwest: The Jewelry of Laurie Hall at Galerie Handwerk on Friday, March 10, 2023. Below this video of Laurie Hall, you’ll find the slides from the
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From colonization to reuse to the AIDS crisis, themes varied widely in the Schmuck exhibition. Works by 67 jewelry makers from 23 countries were chosen for the most important annual show in the art jewelry field. British artist Caroline Broadhead served as the exhibition’s curator. She won a Herbert Hofmann Prize last year at Schmuck.
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About 20 percent of the space features jewelry produced in the last 40 years or so by studio jewelers Among them: the Munsteiners, Loloma, Revere, Minor, Raible, Monongya, Freda, and Crevoshay You’ll find the jewelry in the last two rooms The Tucson show started last week. If you’re planning to come, you won’t want to
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During Schmuck, we presented AJF in Conversation: Collecting—The Next Generation. Gallerist and curator Christian Hoedl moderated the discussion. The panelists were: Artist and educator Mallory Weston, who teaches jewelry at Tyler School of Art and Architecture Joya organizer Paulo Ribeiro Collectors and life partners Juan Harnie and Dennis Pellens. Harnie studied jewelry making at university.
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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
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In response to the shock wave of the pandemic, jewelry artists made work and galleries and museums organized exhibitions. We asked the community to send us images—you inundated us! We appreciate your participation. This final installment features work from around the world. Some of it relates to lockdown—feelings of isolation, working through these emotions, making
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In response to the shock wave of the pandemic, jewelry artists made work and galleries and museums organized exhibitions. We asked you to send in photos. You inundated us with images—thanks for participating! In this installment we’re featuring jewelry from around the world. Some of the work relates to the lockdown—feelings of isolation, fear of
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In response to the shock wave of the pandemic, jewelry artists made work and galleries and museums organized exhibitions. We asked you to send in photos. You inundated us with images—thanks for participating! In the first three already-published photo essays in this series, we concentrated on exhibitions. Now we’ll feature jewelry from around the world.
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