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Curators Cindi Strauss and Elizabeth Essner on Bernhard Schobinger and Dorothea Prühl

Bernhard Schobinger and Dorothea Prühl came to jewelry from opposite sides of a divided Europe. Schobinger came of age in Switzerland’s postwar avant-garde, while Prühl developed her practice in East Germany, first as a designer and later as an influential teacher at the art school in Halle where she had trained. In 1962, the year

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Connecting through the Body

Interviews / Vicki Mason

Over the last year, The Body Collective has presented exhibitions and talks, underpinned by the body as a subject for interrogation. The jewelers Katja Prins, Chequita Nahar, and Anke Huyben make up the collective. For them, the body is rarely the central focus for jewelers, but “rather serves primarily as a ‘carrier’ of the jewelry.”

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Exhibition view, The Stories We Carry, September 30, 2022–March 21, 2028, IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, NM, courtesy of the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, photo: Sallie Wesaw

The Hidden Narratives within Indigenous Jewelry

Interviews / Noelle Wiegand

This week, AJF goes to Santa Fe, NM, US. There, the travelers will take in The Stories We Carry, on view at the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA). The exhibition’s curator, Brian Fleetwood (Mvskoke Creek), will give us a special tour of his show. There isn’t a monolithic “Indigenous jewelry,” states Fleetwood. Each culture

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Elsa Vanier Turns to Curatorial Projects

Interviews / Carrie Yodanis

After two decades in existence, Galerie Elsa Vanier held its final exhibition at the end of 2022 For 18 months prior, Vanier had run her gallery as a nomadic affair, showing four exhibitions in three different spaces around Paris. Vanier closed shop with the intention of curating independent jewelry exhibitions AJF checked in to learn

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Exhibition view, Bill Smith: Madison’s Visionary Jewelry Designer

A Hometown Exhibition of Bill Smith’s Jewelry

Interviews / Sebastian Grant

Bill Smith: Madison’s Visionary Jewelry Designer showed in Smith’s Indiana hometown It ran October 18–December 9, 2022, at the History Center of Madison, IN JoAnne Spiller, the Education Coordinator at the Jefferson County Historical Society (JCHS), organized the exhibition In September 2022, I documented the life and work of Bill Smith for an article for

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In Conversation with Ariel Lavian

Interviews / Vicki Mason

With the theme “Colorful Recovery,” the first Israel Biennale of Contemporary Jewelry will take place November 10–14, 2022. Its organizer and curator, Ariel Lavian, took some time from busy preparations to answer questions about his practice and career. Lavian is not just a respected jewelry maker, but a curator and educator, too. The tireless booster

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In Conversation with Rachel Sasporta

Interviews / Nathalie Mornu

Rachel Sasporta is a senior curator at the Ramat HaSharon Geological Museum. She has worked there for about 15 years. Israeli artist Ariel Lavian says that Sasporta “caused a revolution when she generously brought exhibitions dedicated to contemporary jewelry into the museum and gave (and continues to give) a stage to contemporary jewelry artists from

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Contexts and Groundings in Black Jewels

Interviews / LaMar Gayles, Jr.

The exhibition Divine Legacies in Black Jewelry is currently on view at the Metal Museum, in Memphis, TN, US, through September 12, 2021. It focuses on exploring and presenting histories and legacies in Black jewelry while working to introduce viewers to different names and personalities connected to the field. In this self-interview, exhibition curator LaMar Gayles,

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In Conversation with Daniel Kruger

Interviews / Bonnie Levine

In this brief interview, Daniel Kruger tells us how he first encountered contemporary jewelry and touches on his metaphysical, intuitive approach to making. Kruger will serve on the jury of the Susan Beech Mid-Career Artist Grant with two other people: Emily Stoehrer and Susan Beech, the grant’s founder. (Read our interview with Beech here, and

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In Conversation with Diana Pardue

Interviews / Nathalie Mornu

The Heard Museum aims to be the world’s preeminent museum for the presentation, interpretation, and advancement of American Indian art, emphasizing its intersection with broader artistic and cultural themes. Founded in 1929, the institution presents the stories of American Indian people from a first-person perspective, collaborating with Native American artists and tribal communities to provide

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In Conversation with Emily Stoehrer

Interviews / Bonnie Levine

Emily Stoehrer—the Rita J. Kaplan and Susan B. Kaplan Curator of Jewelry at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston—tells us about her career as a jewelry curator and what she foresees in the applications for the Susan Beech Mid-Career Artist Grant. (Stoehrer will work with two other jurors: Daniel Kruger and Susan Beech, the grant’s

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In Conversation with Dr. Petra Hölscher

Interviews / Susan Cummins

Dr. Petra Hölscher serves an important role in our community as the dedicated curator of an annual jewelry exhibition in a museum of global renown. This in-depth interview not only spans her education and career, but also touches on the histories of the collections of the Danner Foundation and Die Neue Sammlung and the curations

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Curators Cindi Strauss and Elizabeth Essner on Bernhard Schobinger and Dorothea Prühl

Connecting through the Body

The Hidden Narratives within Indigenous Jewelry

Elsa Vanier Turns to Curatorial Projects

A Hometown Exhibition of Bill Smith’s Jewelry

In Conversation with Ariel Lavian

In Conversation with Rachel Sasporta

Contexts and Groundings in Black Jewels

In Conversation with Daniel Kruger

In Conversation with Diana Pardue

In Conversation with Emily Stoehrer

In Conversation with Dr. Petra Hölscher

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