Karen Pontoppidan, CONTEXT, 2013, brooches, canvas, silver, 45 x 35 x 30 mm to 60 x 35 x 33 mm, photo: artist Susan Cummins: Karen, can you fill us in on your background, and when it was that you decided to become a jeweler? Karen Pontoppidan: When I was 13-years-old, I decided to become a […]
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Katja Prins, Hybrid 03, 2014, brooch, chromium-plated brass, resin, 75 x 50 x 65 mm, photo: Merlijn Snitker Susan Cummins: Can you tell the story of how you discovered that you wanted to be a jeweler? Katja Prins: I think that the need to express oneself by creating things and using visual language is something
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Beppe Kessler, Every Day Series, 2013, balsa wood, acrylic fiber, acrylic color, varnish, 45 x 20 mm, photo: artist Currently, Thailand is experiencing protests against the government, and I asked Atty Tantivit, the owner of ATTA about it. This is a contrast to this interview, but I thought it was important to note Atty’s response.
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The contemporary jewelry scene sometimes acts like it doesn’t matter where you come from. The nationality of makers—and viewers—is acknowledged and then denied, an accident of birth but not something that needs to be factored into the interpretation of the work. So, what happens if you try and locate Lisa Walker as a New Zealand
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Christine Matthias portrait Susan Cummins: Christine, please tell the story of your background and how you knew you wanted to make jewelry. Christine Matthias: It was only after completing a commercial apprenticeship and studying interior design in Hanover that I took up my studies at Burg Giebichenstein´s jewelry department. During my studies in Hanover, I
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Keri-Mei Zagrobelna, portrait Susan Cummins: How did you discover you wanted to make jewelry? Keri-Mei Zagrobelna: I am not sure if I discovered that I wanted to be a jeweler, or if jewelry discovered me. Growing up in an environment of artifact, object, and art, it seemed normal that I should naturally fall into it.
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Pin is fourth in collectible series designed by respected art jewelers Mill Valley, CA, December 26, 2013—Art Jewelry Forum (AJF), a global nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting the creation, study, and appreciation of art jewelry, announced that distinguished Swiss jewelry artist David Bielander has created the group’s 2014 limited-edition membership pin. The brooch, Baby Slug, is the fourth design in
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Art Jewelry Forum’s Trip to Amsterdam, the World’s Heart of Contemporary Art Jewelry October 10–14, 2013 Thursday, October 10 Marjan Boot and Dirk Jan Biemond, Rijksmuseum entrance hall, photo: Sofia Silfverstolpe Friday, October 11 After 10 years of renovation, the newly re-opened Rijksmuseum has a new and extended jewelry department. The author and collector
Noon Passama is a jeweler who truly reaches outside the boundaries of contemporary jewelry by working with other artists, photographers, and fashion designers. In Portraits, her current show at Galerie Ra, she works with the photography team called Severafrahm, consisting of Mirka Laura Severa and Michael Frahm. It is interesting to hear her thinking on
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Platina gallery’s Sofia Björkman took advantage of the recent publication Contemporary Swedish Art Jewellery by Inger Wästberg to present an exhibition of pieces featured by the artists mentioned in the book. Many of these artists she already shows, and in some cases, she got to pull pieces out of the drawers to put them together
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TWEEX 2 exhibition, photo: Xavier Ury Susan Cummins: How does TWEEX 2 expand on the theme of the transmission of knowledge from the teacher to the student in the jewelry programs in Belgium, which you began with TWEEX 1? Françoise Vanderauwera: Using the theme of transmission, the whole TWEEX project contributes to a better understanding
Donald Friedlich, Aqua Series Brooch, 2013, glass, 22-karat gold, 18-karat gold, 14-karat gold, 57 x 60.3 x 9.5 mm, photo: Larry Sanders Missy Graff: Please tell me about your background. How did you become interested in making jewelry? Donald Friedlich: In my early 20s, I met a jeweler while ski bumming in Stowe, Vermont. Up
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