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DUBH: Dialogues in Black

dubh: dialogues in black exhibition installation The exhibition was curated by Brian Kennedy and presented by STUDIO practice, an “organization devoted to facilitate dialogue, build relationships and encourage interdisciplinary engagements between Irish Artists, Designers and Studio Makers and their international contemporaries.”  The exhibition is supported by Culture Ireland and Crafts Council of Ireland with the

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Art Jewelry Forum Invites Applications For Its 2012 Jewelry Exhibition Award

NEWS RELEASE October 29, 2011 Contact: Susan Kempin (917-459-0866) Mill Valley, CA, October 29, 2011 – The Art Jewelry Forum (AJF) invites the submission of grant applications for its 2012 award cycle. Multiple awards are possible up to a total of $5000. The purpose of this AJF grant award is to encourage and promote activities

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Is that a brooch in your drawers, or are you just pleased to see me

From Minimal to Bling before installation, Society of Arts and Crafts Essentially it is a mini survey presenting the work of contemporary practitioners who we think are doing good and interesting work. With a number of fine art schools in the area, work in the exhibition has the possibility to become an extension of the

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Linear Celebration

Carolina Gimeno, Necklace. Sterling silver with white rhodium, diamond. 10.6 x 6.9 in. The inspiration for the current ‘In Line’ exhibition at Aaron Faber Gallery came from a superb exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art last year that I had the good fortune to see. The MOMA show, titled “On Line: Drawing Through the

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For People Who Are Slightly Mad: American Modernist Jewelry

This essay was first delivered as a talk at SOFA NY in May 2011. The Museum of Art and Design’s exhibition, Crafting Modernism: Midcentury Art and Design (opening in October 2011) features over 20 jewelers. Some are well known, such as Alexander Calder, while others have been resurrected from obscurity and brought forward for re-evaluation.

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The Schmuckmuseum, Pforzheim

Ethnographic Collection, Pforzheim Jewellery Museum, Photo Brigida Gonzalez Modern Collection, Pforzheim Jewellery Museum, Photo Brigida Gonzalez Modern Collection, Pforzheim Jewellery Museum, Photo Brigida Gonzalez I’m most taken by the potential of precious materials, most struck by how truly debased manufacturing jewelry is in its use of traditional jewelry materials. These objects from the last 500

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