Susan Beech’s Mid-Career Artist Grant aims to recognize a mid-career artist who has made a substantial contribution to the field of art jewelry. Here, we talk with the jewelry collector about why she established it, why it’s especially important this year, and what she hopes to see in the applications. (Daniel Kruger and Emily Stoehrer […]
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After a lifetime of writing for academic medical journals, here I sit tasked with writing what’s supposed to be a simple report about the recent Art Jewelry Forum (AJF) trip to Portugal. Although I’m going to write about the activities of each day, and the wonderful jewelers and the work we saw, I don’t really
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Adore | Adorn: The Elsie Michie Contemporary Jewelry Collection Louisiana State University Museum of Art, Baton Rouge, LA, USA June 27–October 6, 2019 The Louisiana State University Museum of Art is exhibiting 100 works of contemporary art jewelry from the collection of LSU College of Humanities and Social Sciences Associate Dean Dr. Elsie Michie. The
From the start, AJF has always encouraged the appreciation of art jewelry by supporting artists, galleries, and curators through education, critical conversations, grants, and sponsorships. And since the beginning there’s been a special focus on the collector. AJF’s trips, lectures, and talks are designed to give collectors education and exposure to galleries, personal collections,
Two years ago, jewelry collector Susan Beech took the bold step of creating an unprecedented $20,000 grant opportunity for a mid-career artist to pursue a dream project without the financial or time pressures that artists often feel. Out of her passion and desire to give back, the Susan Beech Mid-Career Grant was born. In its
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Jorunn Veiteberg To call Jorunn Veiteberg a collector seems to dismiss the enormous influence she has in the art jewelry world. With a PhD in art history from the University of Bergen, Norway, she has been head of exhibitions at Hordaland Kunstsenter in Bergen, Galleri F 15 in Moss, Norway, and head of arts at
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An influential and passionate advocate of art jewelry, Toni Greenbaum is an art historian who specializes in modern and contemporary jewelry. Not only does she lecture internationally and teach Theory and Criticism of Contemporary Jewelry at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, she has also written many articles and books, including Messengers of Modernism: American
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If you’re a regular reader of AJF’s website, or a member of AJF, Susan Cummins probably doesn’t need much introduction. You might have met her on an AJF trip, heard her talk on a panel, or read one of the many interviews she has done with jewelers on the AJF website. Susan is a collector
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The exhibition Jewelry of Ideas: Gifts from the Susan Grant Lewin Collection—on view until May 28, 2018, at the Cooper Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, in New York—comprises 150 exquisitely made and conceptually compelling jewelry objects from the 20th and 21st centuries. The accompanying catalog contextualizes the breadth and depth of the collection in an
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These essays were originally published in Damian Skinner’s book Contemporary Jewelry in Perspective.▲ The Body as a Living Display In terms of contemporary jewelry, the space of the body is not so much a physical destination as it is a reference point and a vehicle. The body functions simultaneously as a platform or a vacancy
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Inger Wästberg is something of a renaissance woman who has led a most interesting and multifaceted life—from political advisor, member of the Stockholm City Council, and director general of the Office of the Disability Ombudsman to arts advocate, author, and art jewelry collector. You can read about her background in an interview Susan Cummins conducted
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Marjan Unger has been involved with the Dutch jewelry scene for a very long time, performing as a thinker, a curator, a professor, a historian, and a collector. Many of these roles are coming together as she prepares for the opening exhibition of the collection she has given to the Rijksmuseum. Along with the exhibition
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