So You Want to Be a Jewelry Designer
So You Want to Be a Jewelry Designer reinterprets how to apply techniques and modify art theories from the jewelry designer’s perspective. Reveals how to become a literate and fluent jewelry designer.
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Jumble Gym: Playful Randomness in Contemporary Jewelry
Stefan Gougherty creates jewelry that is curious and interactive. Sampling content from trash to treasure, these playful objects are unpretentious and subversive. Exploring the surreal through engineering and illusion, these antics of adornment can confound our expectations. In celebration of our collective progress, Gougherty leverages industrial materials and manufacturing processes to anchor the work firmly …
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Techniques and Technologies
Jewelry-making techniques bring materials together within a composition. Techniques construct the interrelationship among parts so that they preserve a shape, yet still allow the piece of jewelry to move with the person as the jewelry is worn. And techniques manipulate the essence of the whole of the piece so as to convey the artist’s intent …
Elegy
This is the catalog for Elegy, which was scheduled for March 10–April 9, 2020 and invited 12 Australian women artists to present jewelry and objects that facilitate mourning for a world in peril. The project asked us to recognize the profound mental and emotional impacts of climate change on individuals and society, and to acknowledge …
Contemporary Jewellery 1964-1993: Selected Works from the Helen Williams Drutt Collection
A brochure and checklist for the exhibition “Contemporary Jewellery 1964–1993: Selected Works,” which showcased pieces from the Helen Williams Drutt Collection. The exhibition was organized and presented by the Decorative Arts Museum, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas, October 8–November 21, 1993.
Marjorie Schick Body Works: Structure Color Space
An exhibition brochure containing a checklist and essay by Alan DuBois, curator, Decorative Arts Museum, Arkansas Arts Center. This brochure was published on the occasion of the exhibition “Marjorie Schick Body Works: Structure Color Space,” organized and presented by the Decorative Arts Museum, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas, June 10–July 8, 2001.
Teaching Disciplinary Literacy: Strategic Learning In Jewelry Design
Teaching literacy in jewelry design is a lot like teaching literacy in reading and writing. We want our students to comprehend. We want them to be able to be self-directed in organizing and implementing their basic tasks. We want them to be able to function in unfamiliar situations and respond when problems arise. We want …
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In/Animate: Recent Work by Myra Mimlitsch-Gray
In/Animate surveys the past decade of work by Myra Mimlitsch-Gray, internationally renowned metalsmith and head of the metal program at SUNY New Paltz. Curated by author Akiko Busch, the exhibition explores a variety of artistic processes using iron, copper, brass, silver, and enameled steel. Mimlitsch-Gray’s domestic artifacts suggest a coalescence of body and thing, conveying …
Brosche or the jewelry without object of Manfred Nisslmüller
A case study of Austrian artist Manfred Nisslmüller’s work ‘Taschenrecorder’ (1984-1993, made in eight examples), highlighting the artist’s view of “jewelry as a disruption” using of critical, ironic, and subversive modes of art history.
Contemporary Jewelry is Not A Look–Its a Way of Thinking
Contemporary jewelry represents a specific approach for thinking through design. Making jewelry is, in essence, an authentic performance task. The jewelry artisan applies knowledge, skill, and awareness in anticipation of the influence and constraints of a set of shared understandings. Shared understandings relate to composition, construction, and performance. These understandings are enduring, transferable, big ideas …
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Go For Baroque: Opulence and Excess in Contemporary Art
This text explores how theoretical concepts of opulence and excess are explored in contemporary art, especially jewelry. Images of several exhibited works are included. Focusing on artists from the United States and Western Europe, it offers a Western-based interdisciplinary perspective for thinking about what “baroque” could mean in a modern context. Jewelry forms the basis …
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Out on a Limb: Contemporary Wood Jewelry
This text explores the theoretical use of wood as a material for contemporary jewelry. Images of several exhibited works are included as well. Primarily emphasizing artists at work in the United States, it offers an overarching look at the use of wood in jewelry today. This exhibition features the work of emerging and established artists …