B-SIDE FESTIVAL This year the organizers produced a map available at participating venues with event locations, opening times and short statements submitted by each participants. To start, we downloaded a stripped-down printable version of the map from the B-side blog, which, if you were lucky, functioned as a way to find a venue with a […]
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Support your local jeweler badge, 2008 French jeweler, Art Jewelry Forum writer and proud papa Benjamin Lignel is the subject of an auction in Brussels this weekend. The auction includes jewelry by Lignel and photographic work by Elene Usdin and Enrico Bartolucci. For more information click here. Get your Ben. “ For the very first time
Mill Valley, CA, October 29, 2011 – Susan Cummins, chair of the Art Jewelry Forum (AJF) and Susan Kempin, award program chair, are pleased to announce this year’s Emerging Artist Award winner, Farrah Al-Dujaili. Al-Dujaili was chosen from among 150 entries from 36 countries. Farrah Al-Dujaili Jurors for the 2011 competition were Perry A Price, Assistant
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Sieraad is a Dutch word commonly used for “jewelry”. Though it literally means “ornament” or “adornment”. SIERAAD: International Jewelry Art Fair’s goal is to adorn, but also to educate. This year SIERAAD is celebrating its tenth anniversary. The show began in 2001 with twenty-two artists showing on an indoor tennis court in Enschede. In 2011
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Jacqueline Mina, necklace, 2011, 18ct gold striptwist, 680x22mm, Photo: N Mason Jacqueline Mina, bracelet, 2005, 18ct gold, Private Collection Jacqueline Mina, brooch, 18ct gold, 77 x 36 mm, artist collection
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NEWS RELEASE October 30, 2011 Contact: Susan Cummins (415-435-1614) email info@artjewelryforum.com Mill Valley, CA, October 29, 2011 – The Art Jewelry Forum (AJF) is pleased to announce that it has commissioned Dutch jeweler Ted Noten to create a limited edition pin for their organization. The pins will be distributed to all new and renewing
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Ted Noten Ted Noten’s training as a jewellery designer was at the Art Academy in Maastricht and at the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. He gained fame with his jewellery which includes transparent acrylic objects and handbags embedded with various things, like a pinch of cocaine, precious rings, a dead mouse with a tiny pearl necklace
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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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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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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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Anja Eichler, Mare, Shoulder sculpture, 2010, 12.5 x 18.5 x 22.7 cm, wrk glove, silk thread, steel Most people wouldn’t give a second look to the material that Anja Eichler is fondly referring to. In fact, this material is normally looked at for its function, not its aesthetic value. This elephant skin material she describes
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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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