Lynn Batchelder, Cover, 2014, necklace, steel, 356 x 152 x 25 mm, photo: artist Mill Valley, California, USA—Art Jewelry Forum (AJF) is pleased to announce Lynn Batchelder the winner of the 2016 Art Jewelry Forum Artist Award. Batchelder was chosen from a record number of applicants—151 entries from 35 countries. She will receive a US$7500 […]
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Photos by Kellie Riggs, taken during the Hangzhou Contemporary International Jewelry and Metal Arts Triennial 2015—China Academy of Art Photos by Kellie Riggs, taken during the Hangzhou Contemporary International Jewelry and Metal Arts Triennial 2015—China Academy of Art Mary Lee Hu is one of the first American goldsmiths most jewelry makers learn about. She was
Photos by Kellie Riggs, taken during the Hangzhou Contemporary International Jewelry and Metal Arts Triennial 2015—China Academy of Art Photos by Kellie Riggs, taken during the Hangzhou Contemporary International Jewelry and Metal Arts Triennial 2015—China Academy of Art Artist Tanel Veenre shows students from Tainan University of Art in Taiwan who’s who in contemporary jewelry
Toni Greenbaum One day perhaps, when we as a species have fully awakened, when we have mastered the Force—we will find a hologram of Toni Greenbaum within every jewelry box. Upon opening the container of our newly acquired jewel, we will be greeted by the illuminated figure of Ms. Greenbaum, materializing in a flickering beam
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Photos by Kellie Riggs, taken during the Hangzhou Contemporary International Jewelry and Metal Arts Triennial 2015—China Academy of Art Photos by Kellie Riggs, taken during the Hangzhou Contemporary International Jewelry and Metal Arts Triennial 2015—China Academy of Art Dr. Carin Reinders, director of the CODA Museum in Apeldoorn, Netherlands, was one of many movers and
Photos by Kellie Riggs, taken during the Hangzhou Contemporary International Jewelry and Metal Arts Triennial 2015—China Academy of Art Photos by Kellie Riggs, taken during the Hangzhou Contemporary International Jewelry and Metal Arts Triennial 2015—China Academy of Art Twenty-one countries. Eighty-six artists. Over 200 pieces. These are the shipped boxes that account for all the
Jaqen H’ghar, a Faceless Man of Braavos, handing an iron coin to Arya Stark in Game of Thrones, season 2, photo: HBO Apart from the Olympics and the World Cup, little that has captured global attention to the degree of Game of Thrones. In the USA alone, season 5 was watched by a total of
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Department of metalwork and jewelry undergraduate class, photo courtesy of the metal and jewelry department at Kookmin University Kookmin University was founded in 1946 in Seoul, Korea. It was the year after Korea’s independence from Japanese colonization, and nationalism prevailed. The founder, Ik-hee Shin, was one of the politicians who fought for Korea’s independence. The name
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It is somewhere in Ghent. My small studio, my small world of creations. For me this place is my laboratory, my meditation room, my church… Here I find myself, and this place allows me to think, to work, to experiment, to create, and all this process in a certain way becomes my own ritual. A
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Mill Valley, California, USA–Art Jewelry Forum (AJF), a global nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting the creation, study, and appreciation of art jewelry, is pleased to announce that it has commissioned Swedish jeweler Hanna Hedman to create a limited-edition pin for the organization. The pins will be distributed in 2016 exclusively to new and renewing AJF supporters at
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Deep within Terminal 6 at LAX, Los Angeles, California, 2015 Deep within Terminal 6 at LAX, Los Angeles, California, 2015 Finding peace in an airport terminal is fine if you’re attuned to the Zen of queuing. Luckily for the more restless among us, when personal space is being compacted and everyone is trying to avoid
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Mill Valley, California, USA—Art Jewelry Forum (AJF) will release its fifth publication, On and Off: Jewelry in the Wider Cultural Field, during Munich Jewelry Week, the international art jewelry fair taking place February 24 through March 1, 2016. On and Off On and Off is a collection of 30 short essays on jewelry in the wider
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