February is Black History Month in the United States. To honor this, over the next four weeks AJF is spotlighting articles and videos we’ve previously published about Black makers and/or by Black writers. Today, we focus on the makers who have come on AJF Live to show us their work, take us around their studios, […]
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
Studio Jewelry on Permanent Exhibit in Tucson, Arizona Read More »
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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January 2023, Part 2 There are so many reasons to purchase art jewelry… Celebrate that hard-earned promotion Honor a once-in-a-lifetime occasion Pay tribute to a major accomplishment Commemorate the beginning of a new relationship or the end of one Pounce on the perfect piece to round out an aspect of your collection Or invest in
January 2023, 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
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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
Remembering Kadri Mälk (1958–2023) Read More »
“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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January 2023, Part 1 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
OMG, Have You Heard Read More »
January 2023, Part 1 There are so many reasons to purchase art jewelry… Celebrate that hard-earned promotion Honor a once-in-a-lifetime occasion Pay tribute to a major accomplishment Commemorate the beginning of a new relationship, or the end of one Pounce on the perfect piece to round out an aspect of your collection Or invest in
The Austrian attorney was—with his spouse, Heidi—an important collector of new jewelry, the term he preferred Bollmann didn’t view himself as a collector, but rather as someone who enjoyed purchasing jewelry to give to his wife The exhibition Schmuck 1970–2015, held at Vienna’s MAK in 2015, showed roughly half of the couple’s collection at the
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