AJF Hangouts takes the pulse of the rapidly expanding world of global art jewelry. We hear from voices in emerging jewelry scenes, featuring those with the responsibility of representing their country as AJF Ambassadors. Despite the varying quality of video feeds, it’s quite amazing that we can now use this platform to connect people together […]
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Index image: Work by (left to right, top to bottom) Roberta and David Williamson, Judith Hoyt, Brooke Marks-Swanson, Lisa & Scott Cylinder, and Wendy McAllister, from a private collection, photo: Rebekah Frank There are as many definitions of a collection as there are for collectors. When noted art collector and philanthropist Eugene Thaw was asked
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Art Jewelry Forum is pleased to introduce this new article series. Each month, it will feature news, events, and opportunities of note in the field, as submitted by the international community of donor that makes everything AJF does possible. Providing a place for our supporters to share what is important to them is one way AJF
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AJF’s network of gallery supporters has now increased to more than 60 galleries worldwide. This new monthly article series allows each AJF gallery the opportunity to share a piece that they’ve personally selected from their shelves to tempt and inspire you. MUSEUM WORTHY Kadri Mälk, Just So, 2015, brooch, jet, silver, lepidolite, aquamarine, almandine, 148
AJF Florence 2016 trip participants, photo: Joan Borinstein Between October 24 and October 31, 2016, Art Jewelry Forum (AJF) visited Padua, Vicenza, and Florence in order to experience art jewelry in Italy today. The visit, as AJF trips always do, provided collectors old and new with a rich diet of studio and school visits,
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Exhibition view, COLLECT, 2015, the Saatchi Gallery, London, photo: Juno Snowdon The last of 17 filled-out questionnaires has just landed in my inbox, and once again, I marvel at the availability and professionalism of the organizers of jewelry events (which will be abbreviated as “JEs” in the rest of this article) around the world: All
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(left) Helen Williams Drutt wearing earrings, necklace, brooch, cuff, and ring, all from her collection, photo: Andrea Baldeck; (right) Gijs Bakker, Waterman Brooch, 1990, PVC, photograph, diamonds, 152 x 67 x 6 mm, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Drutt Collection, photo: artist/ARS NY Throughout history, jewelry has been social marker and amulet, used to enhance
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Maiko Takeda, Atmospheric Reentry, 2013, headwear, plastic film, acrylic, silver, dimensions variable, photo: Bryan Huynh Looking at the work of artists from a wide range of practices—artists like Yuka Oyama, Rachel Timmins, Lucy McRae, or Nick Cave—there seems to be a surge of interest for deploying ornamentation, or body art, over the whole body of
Roseanne Bartley wearing Necklace 1978, Melbourne, September 2016, photo: Roseanne Bartley A note on bibliographical references: The typographical complexity of this publication requires that we bend some of the rules of AJF’s style guide. Bibliographical references are given in the body of text as “(Author, page)” rather than in footnotes. —Benjamin Lignel, editor INTRODUCTION This
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AJF Hangouts takes the pulse of the rapidly expanding world of global art jewelry. We hear from voices in emerging jewelry scenes, featuring those with the responsibility of representing their country as AJF Ambassadors. Despite the varying quality of video feeds, it’s quite amazing that we can now use this platform to connect people together
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Cover, Glenn Adamson, Elissa Auther, Edward S. Cooke, Jr., Tanya Harrod, Stephen Knott (editors), The Journal of Modern Craft, volume 9, issue 1, March 2016, photo: Benjamin Lignel The latest issue of the Journal of Modern Craft was plonked into my letterbox with some months of delay. My guess is that this extra time is
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“Is there a place for installation-based works in the field of contemporary jewelry?” Is there? In 20 very brief minutes, Portland, Oregon-based artist and AJF contributor Courtney Kemp delivers a densely researched exposé in front of a humming audience. She picks at the scab of “jewelers that make no jewelry, but on a large scale”
