Summer has started, and jewelry students around the globe are frantically finishing up their coursework and installing their end-of-year exhibitions. In this photo essay, we show work by one grad or undergrad from AJF member schools identified by their professors as outstanding in their class. (This opportunity to show off student work is one of […]
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Click on the photos to learn about what they show. The premise is simple: Pore over the jewelry you own, select your current favorite or a piece you consider especially noteworthy, and send in a photo to share with readers along with the reason you selected it. This is the third installment in this series (if
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The premise is simple: Pore over the jewelry you own, select your current favorite or a piece you consider especially noteworthy, send in a photo to share with readers, and tell us why you selected it. This is the second installment in this series (check out the first one here). For this edition, we invited only AJF
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“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity” has always been one of my favorite quotes. Lately it made me meditate on the topic of attention in the context of jewelry. I found out that the author of these words, the French philosopher, mystic, and activist Simone Weil (1909–1943), saw attention as a
Welcome to a new series on Art Jewelry Forum! The premise is simple: We’re deeply curious what you deem collection-worthy, and therefore invite you to pore over the jewelry pieces you own, select your current favorite or a piece you find especially noteworthy, and send in a photo to share with readers. AJF thinks this
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Dear Helen, Happy 90th Birthday! On this stellar occasion, I want you to know how grateful the jewelry community is for your perpetual energy and commitment, in large part responsible for studio jewelry’s connoisseurship. For over a half century you’ve educated, enlightened, and entertained us. Your intelligence and generosity have expanded our field immeasurably. I
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Sofia Björkman and Karin Roy Andersson attended the 2020 Parcours Bijoux—the third edition—and generously sent in photos to share with AJF’s readers. (And thank you to Ben Lignel for contributing a photo, as well!) Parcours Bijoux hosted some 30 events; this photo essay includes impressions from 10 different exhibitions, including one Björkman and Andersson put on together. Don’t
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When AJF profiled Iris Eichenberg and Jimena Ríos’s Hand Medal Project[1] in early May 2020, it was hard to imagine what the future held. The organizers wanted to honor the bravery of frontline medical workers fighting COVID-19. They hoped that the global jewelry community could create a tangible way to honor their care by creating
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We’ve noticed that when artists give studio tours during AJF Live events, they frequently introduce us to their pets, who are hanging out in the space—and the audience loves it! So we thought it would be fun to ask our members to share images of these very valued parts of their families with the community.
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AJF’s social media intern, Pei Wu, attends university in Germany. Although the Internationale Handwerksmesse was cancelled this year, and Schmuck along with it, many of the planned events on the periphery—also known as Munich Jewellery Week—took place nonetheless, and Pei attended. She sent in dozens of photos of what she saw there. In fact, there were so
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Although the Internationale Handwerksmesse was cancelled this year, and Schmuck along with it, many of the planned events on the periphery—Munich Jewellery Week—took place nonetheless. AJF’s social media intern, Pei Wu, attends university in Germany. She went to MJW and graciously took dozens of photos of what she saw to share with AJF. Many of them
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Click on the photos to learn about what they show. The 2019 Texas Metals Symposium took place October 12, 2019, at Texas Tech University, in Lubbock, TX, hosted by the university’s Metals department program and club. This annual, free symposium is in its twelfth year and brings together a diverse and tight-knit community of metalsmiths and
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