Caroline Broadhead, Tufty Earrings, 1979, photo: artist Caroline Broadhead is a creative visionary who moves with ease across many disciplines, including jewelry, textiles, furniture, installations, and even collaborations with live performers. Her retrospective exhibition at CODA Museum in Apeldoorn, Netherlands, through April 15, 2018, showcases work that spans four decades and dives deep into the […]
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Mia Hall, photo courtesy of Mia Hall The Penland School of Crafts, located in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North Carolina, is a scenic retreat fostering focused creativity and exploration through robust class offerings, residencies, the core fellowship program, and exhibitions. All of this requires more than just an idyllic setting. Sustaining a legacy of craft education requires leadership and administrative acumen. In this interview, I have the pleasure of introducing AJF readers to Mia Hall, Penland’s new director. I caught up with
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Jelizaveta Suska, Frozen in Amber 5, 2017, brooch, 70 x 50 x 30 mm, photo courtesy of the artist Jelizaveta Suska, Frozen in Amber 3, 2017, brooch, 60 x 80 x 20 mm, photo courtesy of the artist Jelizaveta Suska, Frozen in Amber 1, 2017, necklace, 30 x 70 x 20 mm, photo courtesy of the artist Jelizaveta
Now in its second year, the professional development residency offered at New York City’s 92Y Jewelry Center offers artists the time and space to pursue a self-directed brief. Jonathan Wahl, the director of the center, speaks here about its history, studios, faculty, and open-to-all policy. A practicing artist himself (read an interview about his art work on AJF), Jonathan is knowledgeable about what New York City, as well as this exciting new
Aurélie Guillaume, Chat Pfff!, 2016, brooch, 100 x 104 x 18 mm, photo: Anthony McLean Aurélie Guillaume, Albedo: The Swan (front), 2017, brooch, 85 x 88 x 10 mm, photo: Anthony McLean Aurélie Guillaume, Le Nuage Triste, 2017, brooch, 85 x 106 x 10 mm, photo: Anthony McLean Aurélie Guillaume, Barbe Mauve, 2015, brooch, 120 x 95 x 20
AJF just announced this year’s five 2018 Artist Award finalists: Karin Roy Andersson, Bifei Cao, Corrina Goutos, Aurélie Guillaume, and Jelizaveta Suska. Their work represents a group of outstanding pieces of contemporary jewelry. For this, the 16th annual AJF Artist Award, the jurors were Swedish collector Inger Wästberg, Australian curator Su san Cohn, and American
J. Fred Woell was a true original and an early American pioneer in making jewelry with meaning, wit, and satire. He’s a fascinating person and dearly beloved. The Maine Masters Project, a film series spotlighting some of Maine’s most eminent artists, asked Richard Kane to put together a film about him, and it has been
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AJF just announced this year’s five 2018 Artist Award finalists: Karin Roy Andersson, Bifei Cao, Corrina Goutos, Aurélie Guillaume, and Jelizaveta Suska. Their work represents a group of outstanding pieces of contemporary jewelry. For this, the 16th annual AJF Artist Award, the jurors were Swedish collector Inger Wästberg, Australian curator Su san Cohn, and American
AJF just announced this year’s five 2018 Artist Award finalists: Karin Roy Andersson, Bifei Cao, Corrina Goutos, Aurélie Guillaume, and Jelizaveta Suska. Their work represents a group of outstanding pieces of contemporary jewelry. For this, the 16th annual AJF Artist Award, the jurors were Swedish collector Inger Wästberg, Australian curator Su san Cohn, and American
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April Wood, Brooch, 2017, repurposed costume jewelry, photo: Erica Bello Our final Susan Beech Mid-Career Artist Grant finalist interview is with Susie Ganch. Susie, who works in Richmond, Virginia, in the US, is an educator, maker, and passionate advocate for raising awareness about the ongoing need for sustainability of material sourcing, use, and consumption in
Kristen Baird, the winner of the 2017 Halstead Grant, hails from Savannah, Georgia. Her Southern upbringing and immersion in nature led to the organic flow in her jewelry collection, which incorporates ethically sourced gemstones and silver reticulation techniques. Winning the Halstead Grant helped Baird launch her new fine jewelry collection, a long-awaited dream. In this
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Christoph Zellweger is an internationally renowned Swiss artist and professor currently based in the UK and in Switzerland. Born into a family of goldsmiths and fifth-generation jewelry shop owners, Zellweger found his way to interdisciplinary, experimental jewelry in London and continues to create work informed by material research, technological innovations, and challenging processes. Zellweger’s works
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