Art Jewelry Forum Speakers Tour, Museum of Contemporary Craft (MoCC), Portland, Oregon, October 19, 2013 I am the intern, so I move and paint walls and plinths and arrange lights to temporarily showcase 10 works by 10 makers on a fine Indian-summer Saturday afternoon. A small group of jewelers was gathering in the lab space
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Art Jewelry Forum Speakers Tour, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, October 14–16, 2013 The San Diego State University jewelry and metalwork program had the pleasure of hosting Benjamin Lignel, editor of Art Jewelry Forum and contributing writer to Contemporary Jewelry in Perspective, for two days this October. Lignel gave a lecture on the
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Liesbeth den Besten and Benjamin Lignel, Art Jewelry Forum Speakers Tour, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, California, October 25, 2013 The art jewelry scene has been expanding exponentially in the past 10 years, both through online platforms with well-curated articles and images of jewelry and through more conventional outlets, such as museums, galleries,
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Jane Dodd, Ice Bandit, 2014, brooch, beef bone, sterling silver, ebony, garnets, found costume jewelry, 40 x 70 x 13 mm, photo: artist Susan Cummins: Can you describe the Kete fair and symposium event? Caroline Billing: Kete was a four-day art fair and symposium that was recently held in Wellington, New Zealand. It is a
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Left to right: Lisa Cimino, Ring, circa 2005, sterling silver, resin; Patrizia Locino, Ring, 2011, sterling silver, rubber bands, epoxy resin; Amy Faust, Ring, circa 2007, sterling silver, Coke bottle beach glass; Lisa Crowder, Ring, 2013, sterling silver, thread, enamel; Christine Simpson Forni, Ring, 2013, sterling silver, gold leaf, enamel; Unknown craftsperson, Ring, platinum, diamond
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Pose for Invitation Susan Cummins: Where does the title Vintage Violence come from? Brigitte Schorn: It comes from John Cale’s first solo album. Volker Atrops: Yes, and it is a totally different context, but in our case it fits very well—“vintage jewelry” and “violence” because we pushed the material against all the rules into the
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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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