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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Marcus & Co. (New York), The Osborn Pearls, 1906, Newark Museum, Purchase 2014 Alberto Burri Memorial Fund established by Stanley J. Seeger (2014.5), case, 178 x 178 x 38 mm, necklace length, 1454 mm, photo: Richard Goodbody In 2014 the Newark Museum’s Acquisitions Committee allowed me to purchase a string of pearls 1454 mm long.
Meet me at 5 CEST. Let’s talk at 11 PDT. It’s now 11 a.m., frog time: are you still awake? Can’t do it now—having dinner—will Skype in 40 minutes. It’s funny: working for Art Jewelry forum has completely dematerialized my relationship to where. The question that really matters, as I coordinate with the other members
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The tabletop at Totally Thai restaurant in Perth, Western Australia, 2015 The tabletop at Totally Thai restaurant in Perth, Western Australia, 2015 Was it the shallow depth of the drinking vessels laid out on the table that made an immediate impression on my fellow diners and me, or their improbable shine? The aural disturbance they
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Mill Valley, California, USA–Art Jewelry Forum (AJF) is pleased to announce the five finalists for its 2016 Artist Award. The finalists will exhibit their work with Sofia Björkman, from Platina, during the international art jewelry fair Schmuck, in Munich, Germany, from February 24 through March 1, 2016. The five finalists for AJF’s 2016 Artist Award are: Lynn Batchelder,
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Casa Fuster, photo: Wikipedia There were 24 participants on the Barcelona Art Jewelry Forum trip, mostly from various parts of the US, but we had one person who came from Australia for the trip, as well as one person originally from Sweden and one from Romania, both of whom are now US citizens. It was
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Vials of enamel powder, Künstlerwerkstätten (the artists’ workshops), Erfurt, Germany, 2014 Vials of enamel powder, Künstlerwerkstätten (the artists’ workshops), Erfurt, Germany, 2014 This image of artists in motion is taken from the kiln room at the Künstlerwerkstätten in Erfurt, Germany. Overseeing the action, across from the newly erected air compressor-powered and internally vacuumed spray booth,
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You can see in the picture a series of tables we have on our patio. On those tables, we set the materials we use in our work. So we compose there, experiment, do trials, and we feel the materials there. Being outside and in front of tables allows us to have more space and to
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Photography by Eric Lafforgue. Image source: Scribol.com. If all you want right now is an uplifting story about the indomitability of the human spirit: The tribal inhabitants of Ethiopia’s Omo Valley are resourceful, resilient people with beautiful teeth. They transform garbage into treasured adornments, literally weaving the by-products of throwaway consumer culture into their traditions
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Alicja Kwade, GoldVolks, 2015, 97 gold cubes and chains, 17-karat gold (chains) and 24-karat gold (cubes), chain length ranges from 400 mm (Yemen) to 1008.3 mm (Switzerland), pendant weight ranges from 0.06 gr (Yemen) to 129 gr (Switzerland), courtesy of Alicja Kwade, König Gallery, and Georg Hornemann OHG, photo: Roman März Driven by the uncertainty
