Arline Fisch is an American jewelry pioneer. She is also one of the earliest American post-war jewelers to be shown and collected in and outside of the US. Starting the San Diego State University metalsmithing program and teaching there for more than 40 years, she has influenced hundreds of jewelers who studied under her. Still […]
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“Hello World. It’s us.” Thus opens, with typical paper-sword-rattling, Overview magazine’s sixteenth issue (and first paper edition), launched in Munich to celebrate Wunderruma and the small invasion of New Zealand makers that came with it. (The publication is written, typeset, and distributed by the Jewelers Guild of Greater Sandringham. It is free. It is uncensored.
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We seem to be having a moment when jewelry couples are having exhibitions together. This one, with Georg Dobler and Margit Jäschke, is at Loupe Gallery and is titled Twogether. They both answered questions for me about their work and their lives. Portrait of Georg Dobler, 2007, photo: Bettina Goetsch Susan Cummins: How did you
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Sarah Rhodes has been researching the role that practice plays in collaboration between designers and African grassroots craft producers, examining how craft and design practices can act as tools for communication and exchange. Exploring collaboration through making with two grassroots, Cape Town-based craft businesses—Imiso Ceramics and Kunye—a co-creation methodology for practice has developed, capitalizing on the differing
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In the wake of AJF Asia correspondent Anja Eichler’s profiles of Ubi Gallery and of professor Shannon Guo, we are happy to publish Eichler’s analysis of Professor Guo’s work. The author got access to the booming Chinese scene, and she is profiling for AJF those movers and shakers who are practically building it from the
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Helen Britton, Lucky Teeth, 2014, pendants, 750 gold (edition of 10), silver with gold (edition of 50), 20 x 150 x 5 mm, photo: artist Susan Cummins: What does Unheimlich, the title of your exhibition, mean? Helen Britton: Unheimlich can be loosely translated as “uncanny,” although the German meaning is more complex. When we look
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Hans Stofer, String Theory No.1, 2013, object, mixed media, 300 x 350 x 250 mm, photo: artist Susan Cummins: Since I have not seen the work in this show in person, can you please confirm that the objects you are using are the real thing, and therefore a shoe is the scale and material of
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Click on the first slide to enter the slideshow. 10 Most Pertinant Displays At Schmuck 2014, Munich
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Self-portrait, Carina Chitsaz-Shoshtary, photo: artist Missy Graff: Please tell me about your background. How did you come to be a jeweler? Carina Chitsaz-Shoshtary: It is quite probable that I would have become a musician if I did not have terrible stage fright. My father is an Iranian guitarist for classical and Spanish guitar. We had
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Click on the first slide to enter the slideshow. 10 Most Exciting Juxtapositions at Schmuck 2014, Munich
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Nina Sajet, Aardbeicollier, 2013, necklace, porcelain, nylon cord, pigment, 240 x 240 x 55 mm, photo: Jos van Beusekom Susan Cummins: Can you tell us the story of how you became interested in making jewelry? Nina Sajet: Jewelry has always been a part of my life. When I was a little girl, I loved to
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Sophie de Oliveira Barata, Stereo Leg, 2012, silicone, cast resin, studs, rhinestones chains, two old speakers; Viktoria Modesta wearing Stereo Leg, the Alternative Limb Project, 2012, photo: Rosemary Williams A new article format was launched in January 2014. This series, called “One on One,” consists of 500-word analyses of specific works that lend themselves to
